Joell Ortiz - Another Struggle lyrics
[Joell Ortiz - Another Struggle lyrics]
Another day, another struggle
Another day, another struggle
Joell Ortiz, that's me
VIC on this track baby, I see
Another day, another struggle
Everytime it rains in p's
I seem to walk in the puddle
God as my witness, I don't want to hustle
But that phone bill is payed if
I finish that last bundle
It's gettin' cold, and I make sure my son
Bundle he gettin' big
Can't fit his clothes from last year
That's new shirts, new pants, new footwear
New Coatward coat for me to cook yeah
I know exactly what them
Housing letters look like
Don't pink slips look bright
On that brown door that means you going out
Of business like Caldor
Moms riffin' like what they're trying
To put me out for
Face to face we had to fight
It like a south paw
Them case workers to busy
Runnin' their mouths off
We down all day from 7 to 3
Just for them to reschedule
Everything for next week
You can't fit in my shoes
If you never had to hustle
And live by the words another day
Another struggle you can't fit in my shoes
If your life wasn't real
And you ain't live check to check
Tryin' to catch up to bills
You can't fit in my shoes
If you've never been broke
And bang yourself looking for something
To kill that roach
You can't fit in my shoes
If you've never asked god
Why we live like this, why is life so hard
Remember that white money with the staples
The only reason there was something
Occasionally on the table
Remember that month you felt good you was
Able to turn on that cable
They turned off the cable
The next month the cable been
Knockin' but you stayed shush
You burned Papi down the hall
To get it hooked up
My moms sent me to the neighbor with a
Letter and told me not to read it
I read it trying to keep my head up
Walked in the crib like ma here's the ketchup
Ran to my room, facing the sheets
I wet the bed up
They wouldn't let up, in tears that is
Wish I was there 15 years
Ago to hear that kid
Just to let him know that he ain't
The only shorty going through it
In 15 years from then he'll
Be finally flowin' stupid
But ain't no time machines
So ya'll can give shorty all my rhymes
Every line is mean
Look Mami they built an ice cream truck
Joell get your but over here you
Don't need any ice cream
What, that ain't the good truck
That ice cream sucks that was the excuse
Mami ain't had a nice clean buck
But listen Mami I hold nothing against you
We was all alone on our
Own when pops left you
And that vanilla and sprinkles
Was nothing special
You sprinkled Vicks on my chest
And said bless you
Sneezin', and wheezin', and asthma speechin'
You ain't leave my bed side
Til I was fast asleep
And when I was coughin' up in
The middle of the night
I looked up and you was there and
You made hard livin' all right
Another day, another struggle
Joell Ortiz, that's me
VIC on this track baby, I see
Another day, another struggle
Everytime it rains in p's
I seem to walk in the puddle
God as my witness, I don't want to hustle
But that phone bill is payed if
I finish that last bundle
It's gettin' cold, and I make sure my son
Bundle he gettin' big
Can't fit his clothes from last year
That's new shirts, new pants, new footwear
New Coatward coat for me to cook yeah
I know exactly what them
Housing letters look like
Don't pink slips look bright
On that brown door that means you going out
Of business like Caldor
Moms riffin' like what they're trying
To put me out for
Face to face we had to fight
It like a south paw
Them case workers to busy
Runnin' their mouths off
We down all day from 7 to 3
Just for them to reschedule
Everything for next week
You can't fit in my shoes
If you never had to hustle
And live by the words another day
Another struggle you can't fit in my shoes
If your life wasn't real
And you ain't live check to check
Tryin' to catch up to bills
You can't fit in my shoes
If you've never been broke
And bang yourself looking for something
To kill that roach
You can't fit in my shoes
If you've never asked god
Why we live like this, why is life so hard
Remember that white money with the staples
The only reason there was something
Occasionally on the table
Remember that month you felt good you was
Able to turn on that cable
They turned off the cable
The next month the cable been
Knockin' but you stayed shush
You burned Papi down the hall
To get it hooked up
My moms sent me to the neighbor with a
Letter and told me not to read it
I read it trying to keep my head up
Walked in the crib like ma here's the ketchup
Ran to my room, facing the sheets
I wet the bed up
They wouldn't let up, in tears that is
Wish I was there 15 years
Ago to hear that kid
Just to let him know that he ain't
The only shorty going through it
In 15 years from then he'll
Be finally flowin' stupid
But ain't no time machines
So ya'll can give shorty all my rhymes
Every line is mean
Look Mami they built an ice cream truck
Joell get your but over here you
Don't need any ice cream
What, that ain't the good truck
That ice cream sucks that was the excuse
Mami ain't had a nice clean buck
But listen Mami I hold nothing against you
We was all alone on our
Own when pops left you
And that vanilla and sprinkles
Was nothing special
You sprinkled Vicks on my chest
And said bless you
Sneezin', and wheezin', and asthma speechin'
You ain't leave my bed side
Til I was fast asleep
And when I was coughin' up in
The middle of the night
I looked up and you was there and
You made hard livin' all right