[Intro/Chorus]

It goes: life, difficult times, and mad crimes

Some pay the price, while others refine
Blessed are those who struggle -- God loves you
And Wisdom is the principle thing for Kings and Queens

[x2]

Many alliance will end, it's like a sad song

from a violin, trapped like Daniel's in the Lion's Den
Tryin to pie-rce the iron skin, of Leviathan
Souls blowin in the violent winds

God help us, if we die in sign, I hear the trials
in the cries of men, that's when the riot begins
Like things never get better, we forever

servin Nebuchadnezzar, since the days of our ancestors
Slaves to a mad pleasure, building great architectures
Sharp dressers, smart professors

Start my lecture, I build lyrics like a art director
Show it to you like the film projector
Blessed are those who struggle, from day to day we all hustle

Comin home with sore muscles, and scarred faces
Scuffed knuckles, we all share the same trouble
Seperated couples, sometimes it seem like

there's no escapin, the clutches of Satan
Spendin years in state pens, awaitin patient
Dreams of a scholarship, ended by a hollowtip

Politics and number slip

[Chorus]


Once, shoved in ships, now we Bloods and Crips
Thugs with clips, ^!$$%z who love the clicks

Hit the clubs and %#@!, so they can rub their hips
Hugs and flicks, ^!$$%z with drugs and whips
Cash Rules this Rotten Apple, they got a worm in it

Corrupt sinners, in my man's jeep
with the windows tinted, sippin Guinness
Observin all the clinics, and liquor spots

They make me lick a shot through the rooftop
I never seen the glory
In the ghetto it's the same story

Ciggarette butts and cold coffee, black faces
and white mouths, they cry out, for the White House
Ain't no wealth shared, it's welfare

and poor health care, self scared
It's senseless, the way they got our black princess
on public $$#istance to end our existance


[Chorus]


It's a blessing... to struggle
It's a blessing...
[x2]

Yeahhyeahhh, it's a blessing, just a blessing
It's a blessing... [fades]