Z-Ro - T.H.U.G. (True Hero Under God) lyrics

24 7, I'm in trouble for nothing
To the laws on the topic
Of they daily discussion
Blood pumping and rushing
I gotta struggle to survive i be rapping
But I can do with a nine to five
Long as it be legal, I be will to try
All I need is a pair of wings
I be willing to fly
Trying to get a piece of the pie
And ain't I taking I work for it
I be doing right
But I'm being punished on Earth for it
What else can I do, to make it on this scene
Seem like whatever I do
Will get me up in prison
Never see me on the corner
Never caught me with crack
Got a dream of leaving the ghetto
And ain't coming back homicide detectives
Trying to threaten me with some time
Only thing I ever murdered
Was college ruled lines
It's a pattern of punishment
In America's design
Arrested and incarcerated for
Other peoples crimes, it's so amazing

Sometime one time, stereotype me
The jewelry, and gold teeth
They swear, I've got to be running drugs
But, I am just a man
Trying to stay Satan free
Through hell, is where they're taking me
I swear it's so amazing, to be a thug
A True Hero Under God's sight, from above

Everyday, I see my people in poverty
And when I say my people
I mean everybody I see
And no discrimination, on Caucasian or Asian
Or Mexican, Samoan, lesbians or the gay men
Everybody got a day to die
And they won't miss it
Better be ready for company
When death come visit
Man I wish Adam and Eve
Wouldn't been in the garden
Now the devil swinging at me
Got me weaving and bobbing
Homies are being murdered
By lieutenants to sergeants like weeds
We uprooted just as soon we harvest
Searching for sunshine
Suffocated by darkness
Looking for protection
In God's heavenly fortress
They tell me when I make it
There'll be no more pain
Ain't gotta be nervous
About somebody knowing your name
Everybody is your family
It's love around you even on earth
God is your upper when people
Down you so amazing

Am I cursed, while on this earth
Cause, I can't find, better days
But still, I give the Lord praise
Even though, these pirates request my blood
But, I am just a man
Trying to stay Satan free
Through hell, is where they're taking me
I swear it's so amazing, to be a thug
A True Hero Under God's sight, from above

The weight of my stress
Is like a fifty ton boulder
Making my head heavy
Can't be lifted by my shoulders
No wonder why my head down
I be thinking too hard
And be smoking like a tail pipe
And drinking too hard
I decided to give it up, and give it to God
Instead of living in the world
I'mma live in the Lord
Gave up cussing this time
While I'm spitting my bars
With a vision of me in prison
That vision is fraud
Investigators cooking the case
Cooking too hard
I know they know I didn't do it
Cause they looking for Claude
Nobody hollin' at me
Got me feeling like an outlaw
Had a case against a brother
But I broke it apart
No weapon formed against me sha'll prosper
If it's written
Even though machetes be cutting
And guns be spitting
I got a Satan proof vest on
Stopping the devil head on
With Jesus I'mma stop him
That's some'ing you can bet on amazing

Sometime one time, stereotype me
The jewelry, and gold teeth
They swear, I've got to be running drugs
But, I am just a man
Trying to stay Satan free
Through hell, is where they're taking me
I swear it's so amazing, to be a thug
A True Hero Under God's sight, from above