Big Scoob, 8Ball, MJG, Krizz Kaliko - Only Know Hard lyrics

You know man, you watchin TV
I see what's poppin these dance songs
Shaking and moving
And rapping about this and that
But all I know is hard, man
I gotta do me, you know what I mean?
I'm tryna uplift the gutter with my music
I don't know no dance moves

I'm tryna paint a picture
Delivered a little different
Hoping you can feel it
Picture just how I'm living
It ain't all bad
That's why I'm loving the hood
It ain't all sad, man
There's plenty stories of good
On these corners of corners
They done brought up a man
Raised my mama, help my family
I do all that I can
So it seems gutter dreams rest
In piece on the block
Still I skeme and I dream to
Make my way to the top
I'll admit I'm in the middle
With these words that I heard
Industry, it's gotta be that
Bullshit they surve
Ain't no romancing, no dancing
Just the pictures of life
On this corner where I'm grinding
Also tought me to fight
So Imma fight, and Imma scrap
Get my foot in the door
Bang the walls with my dogs
Till they open some more spit it raw
Give my vision of how I'm living this life
I can't change it, rearange it
No matter the price

I only know hard that's all I see at night
That's the way I live i only know hard
City streets i only know hard
And it's so hard in the hood, tryna be a kid

10 toes down, bad motherfucker
Mama was a housekeeper, daddy was a hustler
House full of rats, roaches in my serial
Chearch on Sundays, praying for a mearical
Funny when I think back
When I was a youngster then we got crunk
15, learned how to cook a little Crack up
Coughed a little weed
Learned how to stuff a little sack up
Wrote my first rhyme right
About the same time my young mind fell in
Love with them storylines
I used to listen to Marvin, and pray that I
Could touch people like him
When I seen him write
Soul music, get into your soul music
Discover it when you young
Keep it to your old music
Don't you judge your man and what shoes he in
Judge your man by what shoes he been

I only know hard that's all I see at night
That's the way I live i only know hard
City streets i only know hard
And it's so hard in the hood, tryna be a kid

I only know hard
I'm battered, broozed and scarred
Hard life to move, I can Tom Crues the part
I keep it hard, I got so much heart
I'm a hard head, shit
I eat my doughnuts hard
You don't wanna start
I keep a grown man hard card
So I'm coolin in any city, any hard part
In the hood, man
I'm harder than a train rail
Look in my eyes, tell the truth
You can't tell
I don't understand Kushing or a safe mat
Everytime I stumbled
I just fell down on my face flat
Got back up
With my head straight up to the sky
Oh my, I'm a stand up guy
I'm pimp tight MJ, and I'm fly
Some real good sticky, and I'm real high
Imma take my time, I'm a plan out guy
And I don't snitch, bitch
I'm a man bout mine

I only know hard that's all I see at night
That's the way I live i only know hard
City streets i only know hard
And it's so hard in the hood, tryna be a kid