I Must Stand
T Ice

Nobody ever said life was gon' be easy
But damn..

[ VERSE 1 ]
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

[ VERSE 2 ]
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 excactly 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

[ VERSE 3 ]
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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Lyrics by T Ice

  409   6\'n the mornin\'   99 Problems   Addicted to Danger   Ain't A Damn Thing Changed   Ain\'t A Damn Thing Changed   Always Wanted to be a Ho   Bitches 2   Body Count   Check Your Game   Check Your Heart   CJ Mac Interlude   Colors   Common Sense   Cramp Your Style   Dear Homie   Depths of Hell   Depts Of Hell   Disorder   Don\'t Hate the Playa   Drama   Ed   Escape from the Killing Fields   Exodus   Eye of the Storm   First Impression   Fly By   Forced to Do Dirt   Freedom of Speech   Fried Chicken   Fuck It   G Style   Get Your Moneyman   God Forgive Me   Gotta Lotta Love   Grand Larceny   Hardcore   Heartbeat   High Rollers   Hit the Deck   Hit the Fan   Home Invasion   How Does it Feel   I Ain\'t New Ta This   I Love Ladies   I\'m Your Pusher   Ice MF T   Ice T   Inside of a Gangsta   Intro   Intro 7th Deadly Sin   It\'s On   Lethal Weapon   LGBNAF   Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous   Make it Funky   Make the Loot Loop   Message To The Soldier   Mic Contract   Midnight   Mind Over Matter   New Jack Hustler   NY NY   OG Original Gangster   Pain   Peel Their Caps Back   Personal   Pimp Anthem   Pimpin\' Ain\'t Easy Godfather Theme   Power   Prepared to Die   Pulse of the Rhyme   Question And Answer   Race War   Radio Suckers   Rap Games Hijacked   Reckless 12   Retaliation   Return of the Real   Rhyme Pays   Ricochet   Sex   Shut Up Be Happy   Somebody Gotta Do It Pimpin\' Ain\'t Easy   Sondoobiest Interlude   Squeeze the Trigger   Straight Up Nigga   That\'s How I\'m Livin   The 5th   The 7th   The Girl Tried to Kill Me   The House   The Hunted Child   The Iceberg   The Lane   The Tower   They Want Me Back In   This One\'s for Me   Threat Interlude   Valuable Game   Warning   Watch the Ice Break   What Ya Wanna Do   Where the Shit Goes Down   You Played Yourself   Ziplock

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