Appreciate Me

We just products of our environment, you dig?
Survival is the mission and success
Is the reward, niggas, yeah

Kill or be killed, we was raised this way
Either eat or get ate, gotta live this way
Is you real or you fake?
Ain't no in betweens
Can't let this white man world
Fuck up a nigga dreams
I got bills and they late
Sellin' weight to these fiends
Say it's love but it's hate
This shit ain't what it seems
Ain't no in betweens (Ain't no in betweens)
So in this white man world
Can't let 'em fuck up a nigga dreams
Appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothin'
In these projects still hustlin'
Motherfucker the ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in somethin'
And they know how I'm comin'
They tryna fuck up a nigga dreams

Homicide had no clue
Better hope that they catch him before I do
Put a seed inside these motherfuckin'
Projects and it grew had to get up out these
Motherfuckin' projects so I flew
And everybody ain't gon' keep it solid
You gotta push through
Watched how drivin' with no license
Turned into an indictment
Seven misdemeanors sent a nigga
Back on violation
Watch them tears start to fall
She was full of excitement
It's her birthday
And her husband's handcuffed
In y'all's station food stamps for sale
Who got some food stamps for sale?
She just tryna feed the kids, you know
While you rot in jail
And this judge wanna judge me
But you not from here
Do you know how many people
Got shit this year? (Buckshots)

Kill or be killed, we was raised this way
Either eat or get ate, gotta live this way
Is you real or you fake?
Ain't no in betweens
Can't let this white man world
Fuck up a nigga dreams
I got bills and they late
Sellin' weight to these fiends
Say it's love but it's hate
This shit ain't what it seems
Ain't no in betweens (Ain't no in betweens)
So in this white man world
Can't let 'em fuck up a nigga dreams
Appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothin'
In these projects still hustlin'
Motherfucker the ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in somethin'
And they know how I'm comin'
They tryna fuck up a nigga dreams

What it do?
We be stealing and killing for revenue
And I know I could do better but
It's you that sell it too
And you tell me 'bout this devil
While you standing on this pew
But as soon as the service over
You go and sin again
We just callin' out for help, migo
Please send 'em in
They don't have no idea what
Conditions we living in
I learned from all my lessons, this is now
That was then i done counted all my
Blessings, I'm like, "Lord
I'm cashing in" let me fly
Or these niggas just gon' continue to die
In your city with some pounds
In the venue with this nine
And I know these niggas clowns
Can't look me in my eye
No lie, since you niggas wanna know why

The ghetto appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothin'
In these projects still hustlin'
Motherfucker the ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in somethin'
And they know how I'm comin'
They tryna fuck up a nigga dreams
Kill or be killed, we was raised this way
Either eat or get ate, gotta live this way
Is you real or you fake?
Ain't no in betweens
Can't let this white man world
Fuck up a nigga dreams
I got bills and they late
Sellin' weight to these fiends
Say it's love but it's hate
This shit ain't what it seems
Ain't no in betweens (Ain't no in betweens)
So in this white man world
Can't let 'em fuck up a nigga dreams
Appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothin'
In these projects still hustlin'
Motherfucker the ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in somethin'
And they know how I'm comin'
They tryna fuck up a nigga dreams