Oh, yeah, I got the perfect song for the kids to sing And all my people that's drug dealing just to get by Stack your money 'til it gets sky high We wasn't s'posed to make it past 25 Joke's on you we still alive Throw your hands up in the sky and say "We don't care what people say" (yeah, yeah, yeah, uh) If this is your first time hearin' this You are about to experience somethin' so cold, man We never had nothing handed, took nothing for granted Took nothin' from no man, man, I'm my own man But as a shorty I looked up to the dope man Only adult man I knew that wasn't broke, man Flickin' Starter coats man, man, you don't know, man We don't care what people say This is for my niggas outside all winter 'Cause this summer they ain't finna say, "Next summer I'm finna..." Sittin' in the hood like community colleges This dope money here is Lil Tre's scholarship 'Cause ain't no tuition for havin' no ambition And ain't no loans for sittin' yo' ass at home So we forced to sell crack rap and get a job You gotta do somethin', man, yo' ass is grown Drug dealin' just to get by Stack your money 'til it gets sky high Kids sing, kids sing We wasn't s'posed to make it past 25 Joke's on you we still alive Throw your hands up in the sky and say "We don't care what people say" The second verse is for my dawgs working nine to five That still hustle 'cause a nigga can't shine off $6.55 And everybody sellin' make up, Jacob's and bootleg tapes Just to get they cake up we put shit on layaway then come back We claim other people kids on our income tax We take that money, cop work then push packs To get paid and we don't care what people say Momma say she wanna move south Scratching lottery tickets eyes on a new house 'Round the same time dough ran up In dude's house couldn't get a job So since he couldn't get work, he figured he take work The drug game bulimic it's hard to get weight So niggas money is homo, it's hard to get straight But we gon' keep bakin' to the day we get cake And we don't care what people say, my niggas Drug dealin' just to get by (yeah) Stack your money 'til it gets sky high Kids sing, kids sing We wasn't s'posed to make it past 25 Joke's on you we still alive (alive, uh-huh) Throw your hands up in the sky and say "We don't care what people say" (yeah, yeah, uh) You know the kids gonna act a fool When you stop the programs for after school And pay DCF's Some of 'em dyslexic They favorite 50 Cent song "12 Questions" We scream rocks, blow, weed, park See, now we smart, we ain't retards The way teachers thought Hold up hold fast we make mo' cash Now, tell my momma I belong in that slow class It's bad enough, we on welfare You tryna to put me on the school bus With the space for the wheel chair I'm tryna get the car with the chromy wheels here You tryna cut our lights out like we don't live here Look at what's handed us, father's abandon us When we get them hammers go and call the ambulance Sometimes I feel no one in this world understands us But we don't care what people say, my niggas Drug dealin' just to get by Stack your money 'til it gets sky high Kids sing, kids sing We wasn't s'posed to make it past 25 The joke's on you we still alive Throw your hands up in the sky and say "We don't care what people say"

We care so much to not touch the ground We let the flowers bloom in the spring All of the people they hum in the wind Tearing their clothes and washing their sins Washing their sins Now we're all so set up And barely alive But still we make an effort to survive Slowly Controlling Somehow Oh, why can't we live and learn from our sin Why not embrace that your Lord is a thief With such a beautiful smile underneath Taking you down to beg on your knees On your knees And now Now we're all so set up And barely alive But still we make an effort to survive Slowly Controlling Somehow Now we're all so fed up And barely alive But still we make an effort to survive Slowly Controlling Somehow Secret inside As we're fading away Love that we share Never gets in our way Now we're all so set up And barely alive But still we make an effort to survive Slowly Controlling Somehow Now we're all so fed up And barely alive But still we make an effort to survive Slowly Controlling Somehow And now we're all so set up barely alive But still we make an effort to survive Slowly Controlling Somehow Slowly Controlling Somehow