Push On featuring Anthony Hamilton (Album Version) - Nappy Roots

This is for you and you and you and you

Now I came up with little bad a** yeagas

To never had a** yeagas

Slept and ate with our peeps

But we let the streets raise us

Kept the w**d blazin'

Don't let the drink age us

Used to live outrageous

Now we just couch potatoes

Without the wages to break

Out the project cages

Make do with what we got

Use the logic that God gave us

Losin' faith is enough to make a man crazy

Can't even pay my landlady

How the f**k I'm 'posed to

Save for my unplanned baby

Joined the Navy and my uncle sayin' "Pay me"

Maybe I'm just too damn lazy

But you can page me

Lately been hustlin' grams daily

Holdin' down my spot on

The corner like Champ Bailey

But I know I ain't the only one

You feel me

On the gun livin' on the run

Look how they done momma's only son

X me out like I'm a Roman numeral

Damn and ain't tryin' to see me again

Till my funeral

For so long I been grindin'

Paid this my dues put my time in

Time in even went down for tryin'

I pushed on

Never once did I give up

Every time I fell I would get up

Always kept my spirit up I pushed on

Now we finally feelin' plush

Doin' gotta do to keep our nails airbrushed

Jade straight out the box

Damn ne'er been touched

Damn I'm feelin' good B lined me up

Till we never seen a Pontiac diamond-toed

Nappy Roots what it mean to ya

Mines and us

And don't be callin' us slow

We ain't grind it up

Now my people all smiles

'Cause we out the slums

Sayin' "Look at Big Bud ol' sloppy drunk

I remember when he

Sold tapes out the trunk

Now here's the routine jump out the truck

T-shirt and blue jeans

'94 Jays blue shoe strings

When I first hit the grind ain't stop for sh*t

And my only motivation was a pot to piss

See it hit me so hard ain't

Have a penny to myself

I swallowed up my pride and

Asked Skinny for some help

And I'm sayin'

For so long I been grindin'

Paid this my dues put my time in

Time in even went down for tryin'

I pushed on

Never once did I give up

Every time I fell I would get up

Always kept my spirit up I pushed on

Want me to stop

I did but I couldn't stop the sh*t

Dawg I cried for this stole and lied for this

Scream when I felt this sh*t

Toured for 16 months straight

Lost breath for this

Heh yelled for this

Sinnin' every night know

I'm goin' to hell for this

The hurt and the betrayal

Compelled by this

Tough wall to climb but

Nappy Roots scaled the sh*t

Just don't let me rap in vain

People pray over this

Don't take my word for it

See for yourself and sh*t

Everybody out in the wind

Ain't no help with this

I coulda thrown in the towel

Coulda walked away

Eyes on the prize so I'm strong today

Simply want it believe it think it breathe it

Chase it cease it maintain keep it

Hold it control it never let go of it

Hold on press on push on I'm gone

For so long I been grindin'

Paid this my dues put my time in

Time in even went down for tryin'

I pushed on

Never once did I give up

Every time I fell I would get up

Always kept my spirit up I pushed on

For so long I been grindin'

Paid this my dues put my time in

Time in even went down for tryin'

I pushed on

Never once did I give up

Every time I fell I would get up

Always kept my spirit up I pushed on

For so long paid my dues now I

I pushed on

Alright give up

I pushed on

I never have kept on