Trying 2 Beat Da Odds - Plies

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

Ain’t know avoid getting killed was go never be this hard

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

Niggas don’t want to see me with shit the white man don’t neither

That’s why I ride everyday drank my liquor and smoke my reefer

The mexicans the only mother fuckers they put beneath us

I guess if you poor and white the world don’t fuck with you neither

I get it I understand I’m black so ain’t equal

When you from the hood though that shit run a lil deeper

And one mother fucker in my hood that done never became a doctor

And one body in my family who done never became a lawyer

My daddy sold dope that shit hard not to follow

My momma did her best but she had her own problems

My brother two times loose that’s a whole bother saga

Every nigga in my click at some point was a robber

It’s hard to think different cause shit I’m from the projects

Soon as you make a lil money got to spend it fight charges

Ain’t pussy I’ma hundred so I can’t live with cautions

I’m just trying to make show my wins out weigh my loses

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

Ain’t know avoid getting killed was go never be this hard

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

It’s a thousand niggas that die for every one nigga that make it out

My homie can’t even read but do his thang with the pots

His momma been dead his daddy smoking rocks

He can’t get a job some might say it’s his own fault

Sometime situations can change what you was taught

My momma and daddy wasn’t together I wonder where I’d be

Cause most the shit I know now I learned it from the streets

Cause being a certain color it attracts the police

And when you live in certain areas you can never get peace

My momma biggest fear me dying in these streets

But if ain’t up in it how the fuck I’m go eat

And it’s sad to say but nobody in my family got a degree

A nigga playing ball and dropped out for the streets

And got involved in hustling and got in too deep

The shit got over my head and the nigga couldn’t even see

The streets ain’t the honest but I’ma be all I can be

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

Ain’t know avoid getting killed was go never be this hard

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

I just got one wish for drop me in a casket

To wake up one morning and see my momma happy

I wanna salute God for all the bad shit that happened

Cause everything that went wrong now I understand it

He protect me from my enemies protect me when I was trapping

He left when I was lil but I still forget my daddy

The world done got rough everything done got drastic

I’m just a black man that’s the color of my family

If I’m ever go make it the hustle I got to marry

The road done been rough but I refuse to let it try me

I done made some mistakes but shit ain’t embarrassed

I got to beat the odds cause one day I’ma parish

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

Ain’t know avoid getting killed was go never be this hard

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds

They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars

Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain’t go make it far

To keep it real with you my nigga I’m just trying to beat the odds

I’m just trying to beat the odds