(Intro)

So just be thankful today aye aye!

(Chorus)

So just be thankful today

Sometimes life don't go your way

You gotta SHOW YOUR FACE

You gotta face it, you gotta face it! (3x)

I never had nothing!

From nothing to something!

(Verse)

Came from a broken home rats and roaches bro

Getting money gotta watch out for the vultures bro

I had to teach myself the game while dealing with this pain

I told my bro I was gon' make it ‘fore he got slain

Them boys and girls club days, Lloyd and Ms. Charmaine

Michael distraught little boy tryna maintain

I grew into a man Marko Stat$ is out they play me up in Netherlands and Poland even in Japan

I'm still that same lil nigga on Winona street

I been a neutron in the jungle they notice me

They say hip hop damage the youth I say it’s poetry

If you not black then don’t say nigga naw this our culture my g!

They gentrifying everything they don't want us here

I call this shit THE UPTOWN BLUES for all of my niggas yeah

And shoutout to my peers this is history, this humble universe that brought us here we all make up the atmosphere

My music timeless so one day I’ll hear my daughter play it

My momma dancing up in heaven floating in the air

I swear I’m born to be the greatest and I’m well aware

This life’s a Ferris wheel but the don’t mean they make it fair!

(Chorus)

So just be thankful today

Sometimes life don't go your way

You gotta SHOW YOUR FACE

You gotta face it, you gotta face it! (3x)

I never had nothing!

From nothing to something!