Struggle Rap

One of My favorites... C-Murda "Damned if They Murda Me"



I be damned if I do, and damned if I don't

Hail Mary, please help me, cause I know my foes won't

Rest -- until they see me surrounded by grief

Wear a wrief, and my grave reading rest in peace

How can the whole world hate me and turn they back?

Cause I'ma TRU motherfucker, any nigga know that

I stand my ground, ain't trippin' on what turf you claim

I put my faith in God's hands, it's a white man's land

Straight from the wounds of my momma's belly

To the streets, to the pen, I wish somebody'd tell me

Cause I'm lost like a needle in the hay

Before I lay, I pray, and steady searchin' for a better day

And I'm guilty for the crime of telling the truth

And my conviction is the blame for whatever you do

And backpains from the world on my shoulder blades

But I be damned if they send me to an early grave

Searchin' for my soul, but I can't seem to find it

I see fear in my eyes, Lord tell me why, am I

Searchin' for my soul, but I can't seem to find it

I see fear in my eyes, Lord tell me why

Mr. Serv On "Before I Die"

Warning: He's a scorpio and this song is very plutonic....

Kendrick Lamar "Element"



"Ain't nobody prayin' for me

Y'all know, what happens on Earth stays on Earth

Here we go!

I don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck

I don't give a, I don't give a, I don't give a fuck

I'm willin' to die for this shit

I done cried for this shit, might take a life for this shit

Put the Bible down and go eye for an eye for this shit

D-O-T my enemy, won't catch a vibe for this shit, ayy

I been stomped out in front of my mama

My daddy commissary made it to commas

Bitch, all my grandmas dead

So ain't nobody prayin' for me, I'm on your head, ayy



If I gotta slap a pussy-ass nigga, I'ma make it look sexy

If I gotta go hard on a bitch, I'ma make it look sexy

I pull up, hop out, air out, made it look sexy

They won't take me out my element

Nah, take me out my element

Kendric Lamar "Alright"



Alls my life I has to fight, nigga

Alls my life I

Hard times like, yah!

Bad trips like, yah!

Nazareth, I'm fucked up

Homie, you fucked up

But if God got us then we gon' be alright

Wouldn't you know

We been hurt, been down before, nigga

When our pride was low

Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go, nigga?"

And we hate po-po

Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga

I'm at the preacher's door

My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow

But we gon' be alright

Nigga, we gon' be alright

Nigga, we gon' be alright

T.I. ft. Andre 3000 "Sorry"



"What should I be sorry for

Who should I be sorry to

What should I be sorry for

Who should I be sorry to

The fact is you can't please everybody

You can't please everybody

What should I be sorry for

Who should I be sorry to"

50 Cent "Crazy"



"I'm exhausted, last night I lost it

Let the homies get loose, I'm sure I'ma get the lawsuit

Nana called, my granddaddy coughing up blood

Got an infection, the cycle of life just sucks

I bet when he die, she die, just because

They been together 60 years, that's what they call love

Paid for my first cousin wedding, over 200 grand

Then two kids and six years later, he's the wrong man

I woke up this morning, really wasn't feeling myself

Thought about suicide but me, I ain't killing myself

My cousin Dory shot his girlfriend then shot himself in the head

Before I shoot myself, I'm shooting everyone else kid

My head aching, my hands shaking, I'm sweating bullets

And it ain't even hot in this bitch, I'm going through it

My mind playing tricks on me, I mean, shit homie

I might need a straitjacket fit for me

Outkast "Elevators (Me & You)"



"Me and you

Your momma and your cousin, too

Rolling down the strip on Vogues

Coming up, slamming Cadillac doors

Me and you

Your momma and your cousin, too

Rolling down the strip on Vogues

Coming up, slamming Cadillac doors"

Warren G "Do You See"



"… The Blues has always been totally American

As American as apple pie, as American as the Blues

As American as apple pie, the question is why?

Why should the Blues be so at home here

Well, America provided the atmosphere

… You don't see what I see

Every day as Warren G

I take a look over my shoulder, as I get older

Gettin' tired of mothafuckas sayin', "Warren I told ya"

You don't hear what I hear""

The best struggle rapper ever... rapper ever... my baby TUPAC

TUPAC "So Many Tears" (lost my mind when I hear this one on the album)



"I shall not fear no man but God

Though I walk through the valley of death

I shed so many tears (if I should die before I wake)

Please God, walk with me (grab a nigga and take me to Heaven)"

Tupac "Only Fear Death"



Are you afraid to die, or do you wanna live forever?

Tell me, what's wrong? (What's wrong nigga?)

They wanna bury me, I'm worried, I'm losin' my mind

Look down the barrel of my 9, and my vision's blurry

Fallin' to pieces, am I guilty? I pray to the Lord

But he ignores me, unfortunately, ‘cause I'm guilty

Show me a miracle, I'm hopeless

I'm chokin' off marijuana smoke

With every toke it's like I'm losin' focus

Fallin' asleep while I'm in service, when will I die?

Forever paranoid and nervous, because I'm high

Don't mention funerals, I'm stressin' and goin' nutty

And reminiscin' 'bout them niggas that murdered my buddy

I wonder: When will I be happy? Ain't nothin' funny

Flashbacks of bustin' caps, anything for money

Where am I goin'? I discovered, can't nothin' save me

My next door neighbor's havin' convo with undercovers

Put a surprise in the mailbox, hope she get it

Happy birthday, bitch, you know you shouldn't have did it

Everybody's dyin', am I next? Who can I trust?

Will they be G's, and they look at me before they bust?

Or will they kill me while I'm sleepin'?

Two to the head while I'm in bed

Leakin' blood on my satin sheets

Is there a heaven for a baller?

I'm gettin' suspicious of this bitch

The line's busy every time I call her

Now she's tellin' me to visit, who else is home?

I check the house before I bone, so we all alone

After I nut I hit the highway, see ya later!

To all the players, watch the fly way a nigga played her

This bitch is tellin' all her homies

That I can fuck her like no other

Now them other bitches wanna bone me

Niggas don't like me, ‘cause I'm thuggin'

And every day I'm a hustler lookin' to get paid

They wanna bury me, I'm worried—no need to lie

I pray to God I don't scream when it's time to fry

Nowhere to rest, I'm losin' homies—ain't that a bitch?

When I was rich I had clout, now a nigga's lonely

I put the pistol to my head, and say a prayer

I see visions of me dead, Lord, are you there?

So I stay thuggin' with a passion, forever blastin'

I'm bustin' on these motherfuckers in my madness

They wonder if I'm hellbound

Well, Hell can't be worse than this, ‘cause I'm in Hell now

Don't make me hurt you, I don't want to, but I will

Seen motherfuckers killed over phone bills

Never will I die, I'll be back

Reincarnated as a motherfuckin' MAC

-11, ‘cause in Heaven there's no shortage on G's

I'm tellin' you now: ''You motherfuckers don't know me''

Tupac "Hellrazor"

Tupac "Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto"

Outkast "Liberation"

Meek Mills "Trauma"



Ain't no PTSDs, them drugs keep it at ease

They shot that boy 20 times when they could've told him just freeze

Could've put him in a cop car, but they let him just bleed

The ambulance, they coming baby, just breathe

That's what the old lady said when she screamed

This nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th

And in the 13th amendment, it don't say that we kings

They say that we legally slaves if we go to the bing

They told Kaep' stand up if you wanna play for a team

And all his teammates ain't saying a thing (Stay woke)

If you don't stand for nothing, you gon' fall for something

And in the 60's, if you kneeled, you'd prolly be killed

But they don't kill you now, they just take you out of your deal

Kill your account, look where money get spilled

Check it, and they don't kill you now, they just take you out of your deal

Kill your account, look where money get spilled

I just won

I was on the corner with the reefa

And they got us warring for our freedom

See my brother blood on the pavement

How you wake up in the mornin' feelin' evil?

Uhh, trauma

When them drugs got a hold of your mama

And the judge got a hold on your father

Go to school, bullet holes in the locker

Uhh, trauma

Tupac "Pain"

Tupac "Lord Knows"

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five "The Message"



"Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under"

Lol

Your selection of songs is really weird

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis

When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this

50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa

Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur

Phone bill about two G's flat

No need to worry, my accountant handles that

And my whole crew is loungin'

Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'

Thinkin' back on my one-room shack

Now my mom pimps a Ac' with minks on her back

And she loves to show me off of course

Smiles every time my face is up in The Source

We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us

No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us

Birthdays was the worst days

Now we sip Champagne when we thirsty

See I was, born in sewage, born to make bomb music

Flow tight like I was born Jewish

Used the streets as a conduit

I kept arms .38 longs inside my mom's Buick

At any given moment Shawn could lose it, be on the news

Iron cuffs - arms through it, or stuffed with embalming fluid

Shit, I'm going through it - mom dukes too

Tears streaming down her pretty face, she got her palms to it

My life is getting too wild

I need to bring some sort calm to it

Bout to lose it voices screaming "Don't do it!"

It's like '93, '94, 'bout the year

That Big and Mack dropped and Illmatic rocked

Outta every rag drop, and the West had it locked

Everybody doing them, I'm still stretching on the block

Like "Damn, I'ma be a failure"

Surrounded by thugs, drugs, and drug paraphernalia

Run DMC "It's Like That"

DMX "Slippin"

Nas & Damian Marley "Patience"



"Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?

We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?

Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?

Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming?

The root of the truth that you seek of

Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning

Tell them find a cure when we sneeze

And that's when their nose start running

And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut

Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wet mud

Can you read signs? can you read stars?

Can you make peace? can you fight war?

Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh

Can you survive? Against all odds, now?"

Kodak Black "Versatile"

This one got me through my most recent feeling of being overwhelmed. Had so much going on and stuff coming at me from all directions. That piano medley is so familiar but it was how I felt. I was determined to conquer each circumstance and situation. And, I did the damned thing.

Kodak Black "Gave It All I Got"



In my own bubble nigga, had to clear my circle up

Cause wasn't nobody with me when I was piped out in the box

Grab them one for ones and end up goin' double par

You would think a nigga homeless, man he stay on the block

Remember we were homeless, man I stay tryna plot

Pastor Troy "Move to Mars"



Once ya born, it's like the Lord never knew ya (cause why)

Cause this hell

Ya either sell or ya getting sold

Like we some slaves

Though they say that we free, it's the same shit today

A better way, don't lie to me

The realest nigga

All I can see is reality

God told me

The wrong damn nigga

The wrong damn time

The right brand of liquor

The right size dime

I blaze and hit the hennesy

And I realize, this world wasn't meant for me

2 Chainz - Wait For You To Die





Yeah

I mean you got some people out here waitin' on you to die)

So they can take your girl (uh, uh)

(They wait for you to die)

The labels waitin' on you to die

(Niggas sit reminisce about you)

Some people waitin' on you to die

(They wait for you to die)

(So they can sit and talk shit about you, uh)

They waitin' on you to die so they can get some your materialistic things

(Wait for you to die)

Ah, you know, you know grandma left me the house, you know

She left me the car (wait for you to die)

You know (uh)

Did they have life insurance? (uh)

Who goin' to pay for the funeral? (uh)

(They wait for you to die)

What you mean you been doin' all that hustlin' and you ain't have nothin' saved up?

So when you die you leave that responsibility to someone else (down)

(They wait for you to die)

You gotta get a GoFundMe account or some shit like that

(They wait for you to die)

You gotta raise money

But see if, see if I don't pay for the funeral (they wait for you to die)

I ain't, I ain't a real nigga no more

You ain't real no more

Man, come on with that shit

(They wait for you to die)

Fiend "Heart of a Ghetto Boy"

Bone Thugs "1st of the Month"

Big Krit "Drinking Sessions"

I guess Kendrick can do wrong after all