Only Know Hard - Big Scoob, Big Scoob feat. Krizz Kaliko, 8Ball & MJG

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