Seven-ten, ten-ten, seven-ten, ten-ten, ten-ten, ten-ten, ten-ten Hmmmm... We're respected in this hip-hop Lil' Polo be spittin' facts A lot of rappers doin' waves Most stunting, and givin' back You ain't my color, then you don't know the struggle of living black Cops kill us, and we protest What type of th– is that? Man, if the police shoot at one of my brothers, I'm flickin' back We hate each other, so we just wanna score and go ten for tack All these shorties want his points, they ain't chasin' a different stack Really riskin' it all, what's the point with that n–? Seven-ten I got forty years in that courtroom, we gettin' cracked Stuck in this system, they just watchin' us fail while they sittin' back The government cuttin' checks, but can't cut a n– some slack It's hard to get a job, so we hustlin', flip a pack It's all a setup, no wonder why they call us boot trap Life was messed up, I'm outta adapt to that n– snap Push dramatic stress, so them triggers keep gettin' tapped R.I.P. Malcolm, I promise to conquer and fill them gaps Them corners leavin' n– boxed in, tryin' to break free Crazy how I love the same block that tried to break me Pray that I ain't in my own hood when they take me This how we know a life of peace where we can't see I'm from where we unheard, and we can't speak We go to school, they try to tell us what we can't be Pumpin' with a billion-dollar man like I'm Jay-Z They kill Martin for dreamin', and now I can't sleep Why would the devil take my brother if he close to me? Now if you stare into my soul, you see my bros and me We missin' you, man, this ain't how this shit supposed to be Feel like I'm stuck, I wish them streets never proposed to me Out there posted in the field with them soldiers deep So now the other side wanna put a hole in me Like every day might be the end of the road for me We die young, so I couldn't picture old in me Fightin' demons, let them drugs take control of me All in my head, go and kill what they told to me Remember we ain't have a dang same clothes, so we was hard-bodied That's how them situations molded me Needed money and grew accustomed to this fast life Pressure from this way of livin', so we blast pipes Got me stressin' 365 nights Them people workin' against us like we don't have rights It don't matter what this money and this fame can give I been hurtin', tryna smile through the pain and tears Wish we could go back to them days when we played as kids A lot of shit changed, but that's just the way it is That's just, that's just the way it is Some things will never change That's just the way it is The way it is That's just the way it is Some things will never change That's just the way it is The way it is Never, never Some things will never change Some things will never change Never, never Some things will never change You finally made it, big brother. You're the GOAT.