We gotta hustle for ourselves

They been tryna keep us down

Been strugglin′ way too longSo they gotta hear me now

Ain't got a lot of time and I don′t wanna waste it, waste it

I just wanna win

I just wanna represent for my city

Reporting live from that New Jerusalem underground

Where the verbal elite preparing another round

Sparring with each other until we rising above the ground

We ain't the type to dumb it down for you to love the sound

Been touching every single corner of that tristate

Representing my team, my city, and my state

And lyrically my constituents have been hard to touch

But I be thinkin' yall niggaz ain′t thinkin hard enough

To young niggaz I′m that primitive kind

Because I'm bar heavy, every line that′s written divine

And it don't work for a simpleton′s mind

Very cryptic and dry, maybe I should try a gimmick this time

That grit and that grind, search me and it's livin inside

Been timid and shy, but slaying every nigga alive

Ain′t switching my rhyme, nigga I'm a stick with this style

So get in this ride, hang on while I'm shifting in drive

It′s real

We gotta hustle for ourselves

They been tryna keep us down

Been strugglin′ way too long

So they gotta hear me now

Ain't got a lot of time and I don′t wanna waste it... waste it

I just wanna win

I just wanna represent for my city

Illtown Kid Allik, you know who I came with

My hood to your hood, different city same shit

The world belongs to the man that aims it and claims it

And everyone we know be on the same shit we dangerous

Move like the MVP but I ain't the one to game with

′Cause you don't always end up with the ones who you have came with

Looking for no charity, I look to God for clarity

And everything I do through I just thank Him for preparing me

Put that on the team, we goin′ make it to the big time

Others six feet under or like 60 doing big time

Labels own the prison so homie I can't get signed

I put in this time so either way I'm bout to get mine

I switch lines till this shit sounds

Spit shine I′m young and healthy with a big mind

I been here from the start you know I can′t switch mine

Put we spend too many years on this grind so it's time

We gotta hustle for ourselves

They been tryna keep us down

Been strugglin′ way too long

So they gotta hear me now

Ain't got a lot of time and I don′t wanna waste it... waste it

I just wanna win

I just wanna represent for my city

R.E.A.L Music gonna make it, watch YRS make it

J1da, Dizzy D, my nigga Ish, he goin make it

Quis Chandla, I.T., ayo we already stars

Nonsense and P. Dot, that's Mr. Bars from the Car

Kid Pro, S.O.T.M, Mizi Mac, and STTP

Interstate Runnaz, I can′t forget the Verbal Arteest

See we rising up, saying that Jersey wack is preposterous

I'm proud of us, make some room, 'cause it′s a lot of us

But what′s the odds of us all livin' like champions

If one make it, bring ya man with him

They say the industry filled with wolves, don′t get stuck in the hype

Well tell them devils that we got the frozen blood on the knife

You see we jumping over bigger hurdles

Whether we leap, run, walk, or crawl we still gettin further

It's tunnel vision, never get diverted

This the purpose

Witness as we thriving in that winners circle

We gotta hustle for ourselves

They been tryna keep us down

Been strugglin way too long

So they gotta hear me now

Ain′t got a lot of time and I don't wanna waste it... waste it

I just wanna win

I just wanna represent for my city