They say that things just can not grow Beneath the winter snow, Or so I have been told.
[Nas - Street Dreams] Growin up project-struck, lookin for luck dreamin Scopin the large niggaz beamin, check what I'm seein' Cars, ghetto stars pushin ill Europeans G'n, heard about them old timers OD'n Young, early 80's, throwin rocks at the crazy lady Worshippin every word them rope rockin niggaz gave me The street raised me up, givin a fuck I thought Jordan's and a gold chain was livin it up I knew the dopes, the pushers, the addicts everybody Cut out of class, just to smoke blunts and drink Notty Ain't that funny? Gettin put on to crack money With all the gunplay, paintin the kettle black hungry A case of beers in the staircase I wasted years Some niggaz went for theirs, flippin coke as they career But I'm a rebel stressin, to pull out of the heat no doubt With Jeeps tinted out, spendin never holdin out
[Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song] They say that things just can not grow Beneath the winter snow, Or so I have been told.
They say we're buried far, Just like a distant star I simply can not hold.
[Eminem - Mockingbird] It's funny I remember back one year when daddy had no money Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom And at the time every house that we lived in Either kept getting broke into and robbed Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre
Yeah I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what daddy always tell you? Straighten up little soldier Stiffen up that upper lip What you crying about?
[Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song] x1
[2Pac feat. Yaki Kadafi - Who Do You Believe In] I see mothers in black crying Brothers in packs dying Plus everybody’s high Too doped up to ask why Watching our on downfall, witness the end It's like we don't believe in God Cuz we living in sin I asked my homie on the block Why he strapped, he laughed Pointed his pistol as the cop car passed and blasted It's just another murder Nobody mourns no more My tear drops getting bigger But can't figure what I'm crying for Is it the miniature caskets, little babies Victims of a stray, from drug dealers gone crazy Maybe its just the drugs Visions of how the block was Crack came and it was strange how it rocked us Perhaps the underlying fact stay high Explain genocide It's when we ride on our own kind What is it we all fear, reflections in the mirror We can't escape fate The end is getting nearer
Who do you believe in? I put my faith in God Blessed and still breathing And even though it's hard That's who I believe in Before I'm leaving, I'm askin' the grieving Who do you believe in?
[Eminem - Mockingbird] Yeah I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now But hey, what daddy always tell you? Straighten up little soldier Stiffen up that upp