Yeah-yeah, steep life
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like (yeah)
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like (yeah)
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like

Look
Step in the concrete jungle
Everything is broke, your passion be the healer
If you gettin' bread and the vultures know they glad to be your killer
Dirty mattresses, imagine it was your faculty that hit up
And the women that set you up and get the bag for they concealer
Put the package on her liver, Greyhound packages delivered
It is hazardous, in the middle of July shit you could shiver
Quiver, where I'm from it ain't built for the weak and bitter
And if Philly ain't your best then you gon' have to reconsider
For realer, the steep life where niggas don't sleep and eat right
If niggas at yo' head you better sleep with a peace pipe
To get his babies fed he a risk gettin' three strikes
Need life, at least the pen taught him to read, right?
Time of need, see what his knees like
Pray to the east 'hamdulillah, now he startin' to see life
Uh, child of the ghetto workin' hard to be bright
LeBron the King Von is who he strivin' to be like

Steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like (yeah)
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like (yeah)
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like

Look
The only peace we ever get was after restin'
Let's create leaders and moguls, no more cellmates we need more best men
Holy matrimony better get ya ratchet, homie
I rep the fuckin' Chi as if I got it tatted on me
It showed me everything from a birth to a murder scene
The shells was poppin' outta the chamber I heard the cling
So close, if you was black around here you served a fiend
For no reason 12 a search jeans
We used to dirty cops rushin', guns bustin'
Baby mama's phone fussin
Want beef, home of Cochise, nigga we on somethin'
Box Chevy bumpin, commissary, jail calls comin'
Any moment we down to fall, like we log runnin'
Niggas fake as Paul Bunyan, bitches fake as Snow White
Hell yeah, shorty, gon' ball, he ain't grow right
Packed crib, no lights, no beans, no rice
Link Cards, mo' mice
Watch for the po-lice

Steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like (yeah)
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
It's steep life, comin' up where niggas is sheep-like (yeah)
Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like

It ain't easy 'round here, uh
You gotta hustle 'round here, yeah
We tryna get it 'round here
Steep life