Testo I Must Stand - Ice-T
Testo della canzone I Must Stand (Ice-T), tratta dall'album VI: Return of the Real
Nobody ever said life was gonna be easy
But damn...
Black believe didn't have very much
I was in luck, that's not the way it's supposed to be
But I must stand, I was born this way
I am a black man
Just a kid, moms died when I was seven
Pops died eleven, what's up with heaven?
It's hell when you're an orphan at a early age
It's an impressionable stage, no love breeds rage
In the heart of a child who never knew his roots
Looked up to pimps and the hustlers in the eel-skin boots
Parking Caddies on the sidewalk, gangsta talk
Trucking diamonds and gold, rubber bands around the bank rolls
Fly girls to make your head spin, seemed they partied all day long
I was like, "Put me on," but they said, "Little fella, run and go play
Take your butt to school or else you'll have to be like us one day"
I didn't understand but I tried to get a job
While all the players got the girls cause they'd hustle and rob
I was like making bout one-fifty a week
And after taxes, you know what that is, lunch meat
Black believe didn't have very much
I was in luck, that's not the way it's supposed to be
But I must stand, I was born this way
I am a black man
Streets of anger, trouble and crime
I had it hard, had to sleep in my car sometimes
But I never let another player see me down
I kept my front up, my gear clean, even when checking minor green
Brothers knew my game was true
So I hooked up with a real crew that knew exactly what to do
Bank jobs and jewels, quick to flex with tools
Pimping hoes on the block, checking cash non-stop
Crack spots, armored with interior bars
No lie, I used to own bout fifteen cars
Every piece Fila made, drape my women in suede
Pave, Peaches, Caesar's Palace holidays
It was on, crazy out of control
We made up the word "balling", that was how we rolled
But the F.B.I. had a whole 'nother idea
It's called multiple indictments for hundreds of years
Black believe didn't have very much
I was in luck, that's not the way it's supposed to be
But I must stand, I was born this way
I am a black man
The game is vicious, no retirement, you die young
Listen to a fake, he might tell you to grab a gun
I get phone calls from condemned row
Brothers I ran with, brothers I really know
They tell me, "Ice, you got much love in the pen
You're the one that got away, don't wanna see you end"
They tell me, "Tell the little homies the deal
Don't have 'em come up in this hellish habitat of shanks and steel"
I marched two million strong in DC
Looking eye to eye with brothers that I used to think below me
Damn, my mind was twisted in my hustling days
But God spared me, I got a baby son to raise
And being black ain't easy, prejudice is real
But health and liberty is all we need for us to build
We gotta come together, unseparated
Check yourself like I did, black man, because we're all related
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Writer(s): Tracy Lauren Marrow, Santiago Sanguillen
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