Released on January 27, 2004

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[Intro: K-Rino]

Yo, what's up? Hey, I look here

Everybody got problems

Everybody go through things

I'm tired of seeing everyone walking around here acting like they the only one who got drama in their life

So I'ma lay it out for y'all

That we all got problems man

Now look, Kim


[Chorus: Kim Broussard]

We all have problems

We know only God can solve 'em

Just try to find a way out

But life only brings us down


[Verse 1: K-Rino]

You ain't the only one that's going through things in this life

I been stabbed in the back five or ten times with the same knife

But there's two things I learned being up in the game scuffling

Never cry over spilt milk and complaining don't change nothing

What you think about when you look at K-Rino?

You ain't gon' meet too many MCs that been through more

I slaved to get a shot, gave but never got

When I'm gone I want Underrated engraved up on the plot

Like it or not, knowledge I kick, haters I hate 'em

Fans that I got, God knows how much I appreciate 'em

They kept me going through times when I started feeling doubt

When my tape was in the store and fools was asking, "When you coming out?"

"Man, it's out", that's frustrating to see

But then I realize this game is much bigger than me

It's bigger than rap, materials and bigger than pride

Bigger than a set of rims on a brand new ride

I'm blessed to be alive 'cause I got plenty partners that died

And on my way home I see people that's sleeping outside

Realize that there's a difference between a man and a coward

Look at the struggle, ask yourself, did God cause it or allow it? Uh!


[Chorus: Kim Broussard]

We all have problems

We know only God can solve 'em

Just try to find a way out

But life only brings us down


[Verse 2: K-Rino]

People used to fight now they blasting quick

Alive yesterday, today getting your casket picked

A multitude of different drugs got the masses sick

For a faster lick a girl will sell her ass to tricks

Young ball player built his name, got him some fame

Gave it up to sell dope and try to make a little change

Got shot for tryna sling on the wrong terrain

Now he's sitting up in a wheelchair watching the game

Young girl ain't but sixteen, already in drama

Just found out that she's pregnant and scared to tell her mama

Tried to grow up too fast and her wish came true

Now getting an abortion is what she tryna do

But understand this little mama and feel what I'm sayin'

God gonna make a way for you just focus and keep prayin'

Time to be a woman now and do what it takes

Even though you didn't plan it, God don't make no mistakes

It ain't up to you, although with the decision you wrestle

You ain't the one that gives life, fool, you only the vessel

The same way you get to live, breathe and try to advance

That life developing inside you deserves the same chance, uh


[Verse 3: K-Rino]

Now let me say this to these dyslexic rappers here in Texas

Just because you just rapped don't mean you just wrecked this

Everybody think they a rapper but that ain't so

It's like the human mind, there's places in it you can't go

Just be real with yourself, you ain't the microphone type

You just another wannabe that's caught up in his own hype

If the words that you're saying ain't touching the next person

Then when you on the stage all you're doing is rehearsing

It ain't about just being up there, hollering and getting loud

It's about dropping heat and getting props from the crowd

I stay in the field hard, January to December

I done forget more verses than most rappers don't remember

See the purpose of the game is to entertain people

Not to stand up there, scream all night and drain people

These the same people claiming up and down they the hardest

All I wanna know is who the hell told you you was an artist

I was blessed with instinctive God-given insight

To catch player-hatin' vibes but I don't trip, it’s aight

I still be cool with ya, you still a buddy to me

I know you hypocrites be at the crib studying me

Actually thinking that you hard or talking 'bout I can get it

But they don't know I'll bust him up and whoever he bring with him

I'm an old pro, been in the game and I still clown 'em

'83 to 2003, that's twenty years counting, fool


[Chorus: Kim Broussard]

We all have problems

We know only God can solve 'em

Just try to find a way out

But life only brings us down

“You ain’t the only one that’s going through things in this life I been stabbed in the back five or ten times with the same knife”
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Being stabbed in the back is an idiom for betrayal. The ‘same knife’ may refer to a friendship, but in the context of the verse, it seems K-Rino has been betrayed countless times by somebody in the music industry, whether a fellow MC, producer or A&R.

“Now let me say this to these dyslexic rappers here in Texas”
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Saying Texas rappers have a reading problem and can’t comprehend what he’s speaking about.

“Just because you just rapped don’t mean you just wrecked this”
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Doesn’t matter how much you rap, it’s about the content.