Rakim, Tracey Horton - Man Above lyrics

Ladies and gentlemen
Ghettos all across the world

The man above been talking to me
He said he understands my view
He's always walking with me
Cuz he sees what I've been through
When the world starts kicking me around
All in my face, make me want to put 'em down
Trying to earn, trying to learn
Trying to love like a man
Sometimes it feels like it's out
Of my hands -

I'm from the hood that's forever sinning
Where life is took for granted
Here so death is winning
Nothing but blues around
Feels like we're losing out
Times that spent in this
Environment confuse a child
As a juvenile I ran wild
I ran out of blessings
Been in and out of prison as an adolescent
My goal was getting it
Til something said to turn my life around
Redirect my hustle, and go legitimate
Til I get corporate and invest fortunes
With exec bosses sitting behind a
Desk at the office
I'm left jobless, nobody hiring ex-convicts
That don't mean I'm less conscious
It's so hard when they close doors
And when you looking like a so-called
Hip hoppa you get nada
Stereotyped, scarred for life stigmata
But still a kid's gotta get a dolla

The man above been talking to me
He said he understands my view
He's always walking with me
Cuz he sees what I've been through
When the world starts kicking me around
All in my face, make me want to put 'em down
Trying to earn, trying to learn
Trying to love like a man
Sometimes it feels like it's out
Of my hands -

I tackle choices every day that's hopeless
I hear a voice saying "stay focused"
Fast money, cars, and broads will mislead you
Love backwards here is evol but it's legal
Multi task I make a fortune faster
Keep rhymin til I'm climbing
Up the corporate ladder in my community
You've gotta go out of your way
If you're out to get paid
Than back up and wait for opportunity
I try not to blame society
I eat my pride cuz I know deep inside it's me
But not entirely
When a man try to live righteously
And propriety turn to anxiety
I thought I paid back the system
When I stayed in prison
Left the stripes, see what success is like
But the way they set the price
You spent your childhood in the wild hood
You're in debt for life

The man above been talking to me
He said he understands my view
He's always walking with me
Cuz he sees what I've been through
When the world starts kicking me around
All in my face, make me want to put 'em down
Trying to earn, trying to learn
Trying to love like a man
Sometimes it feels like it's out
Of my hands -

I figured out what was talking with me
When I do right I feel him walking with me
So I'm adamant, some call it arrogance
I can cope it cuz I know
I'm broke for having sense
But my back's against the wall
It's getting rough to get a buck
In a job with a minimum wage won't get enough
Faced with giving up
And my lady friend's beefing
Ends ain't meeting
We just an argument away from splitting up
It gets lonely, my fam disowned me
Called me the black sheep cuz I act street
Yea it's that deep, I tried to change clicks
Homies flipped on me cuz I
Don't hang we have beef
But, I'm at peace so that cease, at least
I ain't got no ties on my Porsche ride
And no time for no crime
Knowing that the most high
Is watching with a close eye

They say I'm from the hood
That mean I'm no good