I Must Stand
ICE-T

Nobody ever said life was gon' be easy

But damn


Just a kid, moms died when I was seven

Pops died, eleven, what's up with heaven?

It's hell when you're an orphan at a early age

This impressionable stage, no love breeds rage


In the heart of a child who never knew his roots

Looked up to pimps and to hustlers in the eel-skin boots

Parkin' Caddies on the sidewalk, gangsta talk

Truckin' diamonds and gold

Rubberbands around the bankrolls


Fly girls to make your head spin

Seemed they partied all night long

I was like, Put me on

But they said, Little fellow, run and go play

Take your butt to school or else you'll have to be like us one day


I didn't understand, but I tried to get a job

While all the players got the girls 'cause they'd hustle and rob

I was like makin' 'bout 1-50 a week

And after taxes, you know what that is lunch meat


And I know I can be better than this

I gotta get me a car, man

I gotta get a girl

I know I can do it out there, man

I'm finna go for it, man

I gotta get some money

Word


Streets of anger, trouble and crime

I had it hard, had to sleep in my car sometime

But I never let another player see me down

I kept my front up, my gear clean

Even when checkin' minor green


Brothers knew my game was true

So I hooked up with the real crew

That knew exactly what to do

Bank jobs and jewels, quick to flex with tools


Pimpin' hoes on the block

Checkin' cash non stop

Crack spots, armor with interior bars

No lie, I used to own 'bout 15 cars


Every piece Fila made

Drape my women in suede

Pavet Piaget, Cesar's Palace holidays

It was on, crazy out of control

We made up the word 'ballin'', that was how we rolled

But the FBI had a whole 'nother idea

It's called multiple indictments for hundreds of years


What

Daff is dead?

Carter got 25 years?

Nah

Spike 35 to life?

Nah, don't tell me B.O.'s dead, man

I don't wanna hear that, man

I was just with him


The game is vicious, no retirement, you die young

Listen to a fake, he might tell you to grab a gun

I get phone calls from condemned row

Brothers I ran with, brothers I really know


They tell me, Ice you got much love in the pen

You're the one that got away, don't wanna see you in

They tell me, Tell the little homies the deal

Don't let 'em come up in this hellish habitat of shanks and steel”


I marched two million strong in D.C.

Lookin' eye to eye with brothers that I used to think below me

Damn, my mind was twisted in my hustlin' days

But God spared me, I got a baby son to raise


And bein' black ain't easy, prejudice is real

But health and liberty is all we need for us to build

We gotta come together, unseparated

Check yourself like I did, blackman, because we're all related


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Daddy Nitro   Dick Tracy [Instrumental]   Disorder   Disorder (featuring Slayer)   Don't Hate the Playa   Don't Hate The Playa   Drama   Ed   Escape From the Killing Fields   Everything Is Going To Be Alright   Evil E - What About Sex?   Evil E-What About Sex?   Exodus   Eye Of The Storm   Eye Of The Storm (featuring Buckshot Shorty)   Eye Of The Storm"(feat. Buckshot Shorty   First Impression   Fly By   Forced To Do Dirt   Freedom Of Speech   Fried Chicken   Fuck It   Fuck It (featuring El Sadiq & Powerlord JEL)   Fuck It"(feat. El Sadiq, Powerlord JEL   Funky Gripsta   G Style   G-Style   Gangsta Rap   Get My Cash On [feat. Shyheim]   Get Your Moneyman   Girls L.G.B.N.A.F.   God Forgive Me   God Forgive Me (featuring Laquan & SLEJ)   God Forgive Me"(feat. Laquan and SLEJ   Gotta Lotta Love   Grand Larceny   Hardcore   Hardcore (featuring Radzay, Bazaro & Grip)   Haters   Heartbeat   High Roller   High Rollers   Hit The Deck   Hit the Fan   Home Invasion   Home of the Bodybag   How Does it Feel   How Does It Feel (featuring Big Rich)   How Does it Feel"(feat. Big Rich   I Ain't New ta This   I Ain't New To This   I Ain't New Ta This   I Love Ladies   I Must Stand [Instrumental]   I'm Your Pusher   I'm Your Pusher   Ice M.F. T   Ice MF. T   Ice T   Ice-O-Tek   Ice-T   Ice's Exodus   Iceapella   Iceberg   Inside of a Gangsta   Inside Of A Gangsta (featuring Jell)   Inside of a Gangsta"(feat. Jell   Intro   Intro (7th Deadly Sin)   Intro (featuring Jay-Z)   Intro (Rhyme Pays)   Intro / Rhyme Pays   Intro Rhyme Pays   Intro/Rhyme Pays   It's Goin' Down   It's On   It's Goin' Down   It's On   Killers   L.G.B.N.A.F.   Lethal Weapon   Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous   M.V.P.S   M.V.P.S.   Make It Funky   Make It Funky (12" Mix)   Make It Funky (12\" Mix)   Make The Loot Loop   Message To The Soldier   Mic Contract   Midnight   Mind Over Matter   Mixed Up   Money, Power & Women   Money, Power & Women   Money, Power, Woman   My Baby   My Word Is Bond   New Jack Hustler   New Life   NY, NY   O.G. 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