[ti:I Must Stand] [ar:Ice T] [al:Ice T VI: Return Of The Real] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Must Stand (Explicit) - ICE-T [00:05.54]Nobody ever said life was gong be easy [00:07.45] [00:10.12]But damn [00:10.78] [00:25.94]Just a kid moms died when I was seven [00:28.65]Pops died eleven what's up with heaven [00:31.55]It's hell when you're an orphan at a early age [00:34.35]This impressionable stage no love breeds rage [00:37.78]In the heart of a child who never knew his roots [00:40.68]Looked up to pimps and to hustlers in the eel-skin boots [00:44.03]Parkin caddies on the sidewalk gangsta talk [00:47.21]Trucking diamonds and gold [00:48.86]Rubberbands around the bankrolls [00:50.81]Fly girls to make your head spin [00:53.06]Seemed they partied all night long [00:54.83]I was like put me on [00:56.58]But they said little fellow run and go play [00:59.34]Take your butt to school or else you'll have to be like us one day [01:02.92]I didn't understand but I tried to get a job [01:05.98]While all the players got the girls cause they'd hustle and rob [01:09.34]I was like making about 1-50 a week [01:11.86]And after taxes you know what that is lunch meat [01:15.64] [01:19.48]And I know I can be better than this [01:21.08] [01:23.17]I gotta get me a car man [01:24.73]I gotta get a girl [01:25.81] [01:30.52]I know I can do it out there man [01:32.16] [01:34.58]I'm finna go for it man [01:35.67]I gotta get some money [01:36.57]Word [01:37.30] [01:41.69]Streets of anger trouble and crime [01:44.00]I had it hard had to sleep in my car sometime [01:47.27]But I never let another player see me down [01:50.31]I kept my front up my gear clean [01:52.46]Even when checking minor green [01:54.21]Brothers knew my game was true [01:56.19]So I hooked up with the real crew [01:58.43]That knew excactly what to do [02:00.27]Bank jobs and jewels quick to flex with tools [02:03.09]Pimping hoes on the block [02:04.45]Checking cash non-stop [02:06.36]Crack spots armor with interior bars [02:09.59]No lie I used to own about 15 cars [02:12.12] [02:12.68]Every piece fila made [02:13.94]Drape my women in suede [02:15.88]Pavet piaget cesar's palace holidays [02:18.38] [02:19.47]It was on crazy out of control [02:21.98]We made up the word balling that was how we rolled [02:24.98]But the fbi had a-whole-nother idea [02:28.18]It's called multiple indictments for hundreds of years [02:31.27] [02:34.85]What [02:35.18] [02:37.10]Daff is dead [02:37.93] [02:40.64]Carter got 25 years [02:41.93] [02:44.33]Nah [02:44.61] [02:46.87]Spike 35 to life [02:48.35] [02:50.39]Nah don't tell me bo's dead man [02:52.09] [02:52.82]I don't wanna hear that man [02:53.99] [02:54.97]I was just with him [02:55.93] [02:57.57]The game is vicious no retirement you die young [03:00.31]Listen to a fake he might tell you to grab a gun [03:03.64]I get phone calls from condemned row [03:06.24]Brothers I ran with brothers I really know [03:09.39] [03:10.01]They tell me ice you got much love in the pen [03:12.62]You're the one that got away don't wanna see you in [03:15.60]They tell me tell the little homies the deal [03:17.72] [03:18.25]Don't let 'em come up in this hellish habitat of shanks and steel [03:21.82] [03:22.41]I marched two million strong in dc [03:25.27]Looking eye to eye with brothers that I used to think below me [03:28.61]Damn my mind was twisted in my hustling days [03:31.42]But god spared me I got a baby son to raise [03:34.57]And being black ain't easy prejudice is real [03:37.77]But health and liberty is all we need for us to build [03:40.89]We gotta come together unseparated [03:43.08] [03:43.60]Check yourself like I did blackman because we're all related