(Talking) Uh..Uh.. This for my hood niggas whats good with you?

Verse 1:

Grew up a dreamer

Eager to make believers of doubters and fill arenas with shouters, rooting me on

Lighting herb, reciting words to my songs

The ink spills lyrics to heal those who were born

Like me, who look up to the stars in the middle of the night

Mind cloudy as the skies trying to figure out their life

What was once looking bright’s now dim

Your odds of making it’s slim

You’re looking all in the mirror like who is him?

Uncertainty all over your face, what a disgrace!

What happened to your faith?, nigga stand up straight

Hard times make you who you are man up, ay

If life knocks you down seven times, stand up eight

And move forward, towards them goals you jotted and plotted

Taped to the wall and told yourself “you got it” you got it

Listen I’m reminiscing on the position that I was just in

Visions balling like a piston’s my mission

Pre Hook:

I’m trying to make it out, ay yo I gotta make it out

Hook:

So we grind all day, hustle all night

Dusk till dawn getting my money right

A nigga trying to get paid, fuck being broke

Get up go and get it yeah thats all I know

I’m just trying to make it out, Ay yo i gotta make it out, without a doubt

Verse 2:

Imma keep working for better, as long as I’m able

Fuck your thought's about me less you putting food on my table

Nigga you don't pay these bills, under my nails is dirt

Can’t clean em & can't chill as long as my mama’s at work

Wanna see her quit her job, and pull off

In her dream car and park it at her dream house, with three accounts

One for mortgage and bills, one when she wants to chill

And one for a rainy day I pray she never faces

Cuz Lord knows we’ve had storms, 40 days and 40 nights and had floods

Did things for money only God could judge

Nigga, hand me them scissors and pass me that beanie

I’m bout to cut three holes in it yo so no one sees me

And jack a nigga for his jesus piece father forgive me

Just reacted to mama’s tears but God you know the real me

But first thing in the morning, this chain getting dropped

And imma hit Quan phone and we gon' set up shop

Prehook:

To make it out, cuz we just trying to make it out, without a doubt

Hook:

Grind all day, hustle all night

On my grind getting my money right

Man I'm trying to get paid, fuck being broke

Get up go and get it yeah thats all I know

I’m just trying to make it out, Ay man I gotta make it out, without a doubt

Verse 3:

Your honor before you bang that gavel may I ask why you’re so quick

To try and give us niggas numbers like an unattractive bitch?

Sentence us to ten ten years and then go home like it ain't shit?

Cuz we was doing shit for dough to come up with the rent?

Fucking prick! I keep my distance

I’m smart enough to know that I fit the description

To be another statistic, raised in living conditions where the crime pays

They’re even doing scams nowadays

And who am I to feel a way or say a thing about it?

We’re chasing money nigga we can't go a day without it

I got some issues mama told me I should pray about it

Cuz she don't want me in them streets she hopes I stay up out em

But ay Im knee deep trying to make a way up out em

It’s either hustle or be hungry ain't no way around it

See people only see the shine they don't ever see the grind

Before you ever make a dime

You gotta put it time

Pre Hook:

To make it out, cuz boy we trying to make it out

Ay what you bout?

Hook:

Grind all day, hustle all night

Dusk till dawn getting my money right

A nigga trying to get paid, fuck being broke

Get up go and get it yeah thats all I know

I'm just trying to make it out, Ay i just gotta make it out, without a doubt

(Outro: D-Mac)

I gotta make it out, Man I’m trying to make it out

Man I wanna make it out, Man I gotta make it out

This for my hood niggas, what’s good with you?

By any means nigga, gotta make it out

Ain't nothing coming to a sleeper but a good night’s rest

I’m up early in the morning trying to get that check you heard

Trying to make it out, Ay yo I gotta make it out

(Talking: Jermaine Dupri)

If you got a idea and you wanna be a rapper or you wanna be a singer

Or you wanna do something in life, you can't let no one tell you that you can't do it

You just gotta keep doing it, and keep doing it

And, it’s good to have someone behind you

So if its not your parents, get a friend

And you know yawl be down and yall do what you gotta do

And don't look behind you, just keep doing what you gotta do

And it’ll come to you one of these days