Happy To Be Here-E-40

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[00:00.00]Happy To Be Here - E-40
[00:00.99]I'm just happy to be here
[00:05.92]Hard times the struggle
[00:10.41]The ups and downs the highs and the lows
[00:13.53]You know just going through it man ghetto politics
[00:16.30]Trying to make a way out of no way
[00:18.58]I was the oldest so I had to be the daddy of the family
[00:21.92]Momma had to work three jobs oooh
[00:23.70]Feet sticking through my shoes skid marks in my drawers
[00:26.20]Garage sales and flea markets we never shopped at malls
[00:28.83]No dental plan no medikit we poor like rain
[00:31.12]Colored folks think that castor oil cures everythang
[00:34.26]Pork chops and chicken we like our food fried
[00:36.28]Hypertension prinivil pills and hydro chlorizide
[00:38.82]Some of my family still living some of my folks done died
[00:41.39]Health complications natural causes and homicide
[00:43.47]Just trying to survive nothing to lose but plenty to gain
[00:46.17]Started hustling flea flicking and serving that candy cane
[00:48.69]Put all my cars in my lady name as a true hustler should
[00:51.78]She had a 9 to 5 worked at planned parenthood
[00:54.12]While I was in the hood up to no good
[00:56.34]With a hoodie over my head trying to outslick the feds
[00:58.93]Or should I say cops at this point in time I only had rocks
[01:01.67]Went from a little jelly jar up to a soup pot
[01:04.31]The fast quarter my negro don't want the slow nickel
[01:06.78]I done seen yola the same color as peanut brittle
[01:10.14]I done seen hella people relapse
[01:11.94]I done seen my homey grandparents go back to crack
[01:14.46]How sick is dat begging my loved ones to send some pictures
[01:17.07]Pray for me over the phone and read me some scriptures
[01:19.31]Oooh it's gloomy out here dark days ahead
[01:21.99]God got my back but the devil he want my head
[01:25.12]I'm just happy to be here right now
[01:30.20]Lot of my folks been locked up or laid down
[01:35.20]See I ain't saying I ain't shed no tears no
[01:41.56]But I'm just happy to be here
[01:46.82]Somebody's momma washing her son or her daughter's bloodstain off the cement
[01:50.22]Wrong place at the wrong time infiltrators drop a dime
[01:53.19]Mistaken identity bullets start flying
[01:55.39]In every direction hit a pregnant teen she passed
[01:57.65]But her baby live through AC section
[01:59.86]I know it sound foul and sound hecka rude it ain't cool
[02:02.51]But it go down like that sometime when you're funking
[02:04.25]And you're putting down a move
[02:05.58]We heartless and shrewd in this day and age it ain't the same
[02:08.01]Our parents need to beat us with a belt like poody tang
[02:10.59]I be high like an airplane
[02:12.48]I be smoking and perking taking out anger and stress on the wrong person
[02:15.41]Re uppin and copping turf an' then serving the soil block
[02:18.37]Gritting trying to put some gifts in my kid's Christmas stock
[02:20.74]Ooooh pour out some liquor and shed a tear
[02:23.44]For the homies that never made it and family that ain't here
[02:26.74]I'm just happy to be here right now
[02:31.46]Lot of my folks been locked up or laid down
[02:36.59]See I ain't saying I ain't shed no tears no
[02:42.99]But I'm just happy to be here
[02:48.57]So happy
[02:49.50]You know I'm happy to be here you know I'm happy to be
[02:54.64]Said I'm so happy aid
[02:56.29]I'm happy so happy just to be here
[03:03.71]To be to be
[03:06.21]To be to be
[03:09.97]To be I'm so happy
[03:15.16]Oh I'm so happy
[03:16.85]I'm so happy to be to be here
[03:21.88]To be here to be here