[Intro]

Yeah

Need y'all niggas to feel me, yo

As we continue on

Feel my pain

This one's called "Can't Cry"

Said soft niggas can't last hard times, yo

Believe that shit, yeah

Yeah, ayy (Ayy)

Real niggas don't cry

Look, yo

[Verse 1]

Was just a youngin with that fresh fade

Bird chest, legs skinny

That hoop dreamin' had me tryna be the next Penny

Fresh Pennys on my feet

Mama paid for everything I'm wearin'

At the fair starin' at girls, not a care in the world

Aw, nigga, but shit done changed since Mane was my nickname

A lil' nigga chasin' things, tryna kick game

Now I'm a man worried 'bout my fam, let me explain

It's like my pockets stay broke, and if not, them shit's sprained

And so I rap for my niggas trapped in the struggle

You feelin' like the world's on your back, so you stumble

In the field like a quarterback, get sacked, then you fumble

Jobs don't call a nigga back, so it's back to the hustle

Niggas prayin' for they moms, the same time, they moms pray for them

Ask the Lord to stay with them, guide 'em on they way

But, damn, a nigga been done lost faith, it hurts on the usual

The only time you catch me up at church is a funeral, damn

[Chorus]

Sometimes sunshine turn to rain, my nigga

The same ones you love'll bring you pain, my nigga

I don't know if I'll see tomorrow

But I won't cry, no, I can't cry

And in this life, the times gettin' hard, my nigga (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

But fuck that, I'm aimin' for the stars, my nigga (Yeah, ayy, yeah, ayy)

I won't stop, try 'til the day I die (Ayy, listen, yo)

And I won't cry, no, I can't cry, no

[Verse 2]

I sit back and watch the news every now and then

Either get depressed or mad from watchin' the world just crash, even the weather's bad

It be the same shit, got my brain twisted

Like, "Damn, it's '06 and niggas still up on that gang shit?" (That shit old, dog)

Yesterday, this kid got his whole frame split

Only seventeen, he was finna graduate in like three weeks

Some stupid niggas got him for his chain

But he fought back, they blasted him and left him on the pavement, uh (Rest in peace)

And now they tellin' me this little girl just got raped

Some dude snatched her, she was standin' at the bus stop

Wait, man, she was eleven

What the fuck is up with this world?

Got these grown niggas fuckin' with girls

Plus the cops harassin' us

Every week be blastin' us on accident, or so they claim

Reporters sympathizin' like they truly know the pain (Right)

They killed her only son

Now she wanna blow her brains out

Change the channel, man, I can't watch this shit

[Chorus]

Sometimes sunshine turn to rain, my nigga

The same ones you love'll bring you pain, my nigga

I don't know if I'll see tomorrow

But I won't cry, no, I can't cry

And in this life, the times gettin' hard, my nigga (Yeah, yeah)

But fuck that, I'm aimin' for the stars, my nigga (Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, yeah)

I won't stop, try 'til the day I die (Ayy, ayy, look)

And I won't cry, no, I can't cry, no (Look, yeah, yo)

[Verse 3]

Take a ride through the city, man, tell me what you witness

Poverty (Yeah), richness (Yeah), crooked cops (Yeah), and misfits (Yeah)

Violence (Yeah), hatred (Yeah), real devastation (Yeah)

Neighborhoods lookin' like it's still segregation (Yeah)

Welfare, single mothers, no jobs

Tryna get a piece for yourself, but they hoggin' up the whole pie

Fiends in the street so high off of that crack shit

This nigga thirteen with a gat under his mattress (Bang)

White folks got the road to success mapped and that's all good

But why don't Blacks got that same atlas?

I asked the same question a million ways

And it seems like I done prayed for a million days

But still the ills remain, just bills and pain

Shootouts in project buildings, children slain

Skies filled with rain and I just sit and wonder why

It's enough to make a nigga wanna cry, but I can't, though

[Chorus]

Sometimes sunshine turn to rain, my nigga

The same ones you love'll bring you pain, my nigga

I don't know if I'll see tomorrow

But I won't cry, no, I can't cry

And in this life, the times gettin' hard, my nigga (Yeah, uh, yeah, uh)

But fuck that, I'm aimin' for the stars, my nigga (Yeah, nigga, yeah, nigga)

I won't stop, try 'til the day I die (Yeah, yeah, ayy, ayy)

And I won't cry, no, I can't cry, no (Yeah, uh, yeah, yeah)

[Outro]

Yeah, shit dedicated to my cousin Ricky, man

Hoop dreams was cut short, man

Learned he had a baby on the way

Nigga wasn't even a senior in high school, hold your head, man

You'll be missed, nigga (Is this what you want? Huh?)