Happy to Be Here (feat. Bosko & D.D. Artis)

Happy To Be Here - E-40

I'm just happy to be here

Hard times the struggle

The ups and downs the highs and the lows

You know just going through it man ghetto politics

Trying to make a way out of no way

I was the oldest so I had to be the daddy of the family

Momma had to work three jobs oooh

Feet sticking through my shoes skid marks in my drawers

Garage sales and flea markets we never shopped at malls

No dental plan no medikit we poor like rain

Colored folks think that castor oil cures everythang

Pork chops and chicken we like our food fried

Hypertension prinivil pills and hydro chlorizide

Some of my family still living some of my folks done died

Health complications natural causes and homicide

Just trying to survive nothing to lose but plenty to gain

Started hustling flea flicking and serving that candy cane

Put all my cars in my lady name as a true hustler should

She had a 9 to 5 worked at planned parenthood

While I was in the hood up to no good

With a hoodie over my head trying to outslick the feds

Or should I say cops at this point in time I only had rocks

Went from a little jelly jar up to a soup pot

The fast quarter my negro don't want the slow nickel

I done seen yola the same color as peanut brittle

I done seen hella people relapse

I done seen my homey grandparents go back to crack

How sick is dat begging my loved ones to send some pictures

Pray for me over the phone and read me some scriptures

Oooh it's gloomy out here dark days ahead

God got my back but the devil he want my head

I'm just happy to be here right now

Lot of my folks been locked up or laid down

See I ain't saying I ain't shed no tears no

But I'm just happy to be here

Somebody's momma washing her son or her daughter's bloodstain off the cement

Wrong place at the wrong time infiltrators drop a dime

Mistaken identity bullets start flying

In every direction hit a pregnant teen she passed

But her baby live through AC section

I know it sound foul and sound hecka rude it ain't cool

But it go down like that sometime when you're funking

And you're putting down a move

We heartless and shrewd in this day and age it ain't the same

Our parents need to beat us with a belt like poody tang

I be high like an airplane

I be smoking and perking taking out anger and stress on the wrong person

Re uppin and copping turf an' then serving the soil block

Gritting trying to put some gifts in my kid's Christmas stock

Ooooh pour out some liquor and shed a tear

For the homies that never made it and family that ain't here

I'm just happy to be here right now

Lot of my folks been locked up or laid down

See I ain't saying I ain't shed no tears no

But I'm just happy to be here

So happy

You know I'm happy to be here you know I'm happy to be

Said I'm so happy aid

I'm happy so happy just to be here

To be to be

To be to be

To be I'm so happy

Oh I'm so happy

I'm so happy to be to be here

To be here to be here