Only my mama done seen me cry, this my life

I'll be thuggin' till the day I die, this my life

You niggas don't know me

You can't slow me down, you can't hold me

So I'mma keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' goin' on strong They say why you so defensive? I take that offensive

Comin' from the *** that I lived in

You wouldn't understand him unless you eye witness

Chillin' on the block where vacant lots are given Women and children, missin' men in the picture

These niggas hit up sittin' down at some center

Get a kite with a flick of a chick, he once hit up

Ridiculous but that's us niggas On the corner from dusk to dawn

Till that *** whites brought to America's gone

Be a good Samaritan, my heritage was did wrong

So all that sufferin' that's just prolong Long as you knowin' that strong arm robbery

Was brought on from this society deprivin' me

This brings violence if you're not survivin'

My environment, don't expect you to be drivin' in Only my mama done seen me cry, this my life

I'll be thuggin' till the day I die, this my life

You niggas don't know me

You can't slow me down, you can't hold me

So I'mma keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' goin' on strong Mama worked 37 years at the plant

34 days she missed, that's where I get my grind at

Her little nigga, see her as father figure

Even though she got hips and tender bitch up Show me how to maneuver snakes far as niggas

Eleanor Trice, one real sister

Raised the kids up to be go getters

Now a nigga living room big as an ampatheater Got the theater nigga, I'm from the hood

So at times I see the mirror and tell him he doin' good

Keep up my spirits 'cause niggas want him destroyed

But that's null and void when it comes to ya boy I'm from Detroit, Shady employee

I'm on a voyage tryna get more than royalties

Niggas some royalty, that's why your bitches spoil me

O T R I C E Only my mama done seen me cry, this my life

I'll be thuggin' till the day I die, this my life

You niggas don't know me

You can't slow me down, you can't hold me

So I'mma keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' goin' on strong I got visions of makin' executive decisions

But the system tells me to be realistic

You can't do *** with C's and D's

I can do the work, I'm just interested in makin' cheese So your schools can't control these G's

He got his own rules and do whatever he please

At ease to my soldiers that's feelin' Obie

Long as I know my 1, 2, 3's I'm flippin' OZ's A nigga can count like an accountant

Only difference is it ain't checks thatta be bouncin'

It's powder, peep what he's pronouncin'

Now he lives next to the teacher that denounced him Doubted him, now look at the child's outcome

Deuce album got 'em speakin' highly in volume

I assume I'm valuable, they throwin' in the towel

Bow whenever they see him rollin' at diablo Only my mama done seen me cry, this my life

I'll be thuggin' till the day I die, this my life

You niggas don't know me

You can't slow me down, you can't hold me

So I'mma keep rollin', rollin', rollin' goin' on strong