Wake Up

Z-Ro

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up 
The ghetto motherfucking alarm clock 
Wake up nigga 

Lord forgive us for sinning, give us this day and our daily bread 
Cause if a nigga don't call you back when you beep him, he might be dead 
Look at this world we living in, everybody got a bad attitude and a glock 
Seem like we living just to become a victim, of a random shot 
Everytime I turn my back, another y'all motherfuckers turn and crack 
It seem like just yesterday, a young nigga stepped up to the plate and 
Learn to bat, military minded at a early age bread to live in a murder maze 
I don't wanna go to the early grave, a motherfucker like me 
Ready to murder maze, I wanna go to heaven but not right now 
Bout to pushing infrared like dimes, what you wanna do it like that 
I can play eight to the Penn, cut your lights off right now 
Mean what I say and I say what I mean, nigga like me don't play with a beam 
When I pull my gun, then I'ma use my gun 
And I ain't tripping, I'll put you in a murder scene 
But I try to stay humble, and hold what I got 
Never let a nigga know what I got, keep my bidness to my own 
So don't bring none of that there, to my home 
I love my people, and that's a fact 
But I wanna know, where's the fucking love at 
I don't wanna put a motherfucker, in the grave 
But I will to keep on, keeping on busting back 

Wake up before you get caught up 
Don't keep on selling your soul, until your life bought up 
And my eyes on the prize, and never fall off the straight and I roll 
When you slip, hollow tips are sharper than an arrow 
(2x)

I decided August 31, 1999 
There's no more time for fake partnas, there's only time for my grind 
All of my friendships came about, because of the verses I say 
That nigga Z-Ro got partnas, but what about Joseph McVey 
Everytime I'm on the microphone, nigga wanna tag along 
Wanna see me, when I do my song 
Or when a nigga be smoking the marijuana, and the dope all gone 
A nigga right back, all alone 
I had to regulate, or be surrounded by fakes 
At all times looking over my shoulder, but I came out of that as I got older 
Cause I realized, if it's written scriptures don't lie 
That's why I'm thugging cause life is a bitch, and then a nigga die 
I rap about the struggle, cause balling is foreign to me 
Z-Ro be t-shirt and Dickies, ain't no Ralph Lauren you see 
Cause every dolla that I make, is a dolla well earned 
And I'm putting it back in the game, to sco' some crack 
And a strap, to dip sherms 
Hopefully I can make it, to see the sun rise 
Fiending for them back in the days, of hide and seek 
And throwing mud pies 

Wake up before you get caught up 
Don't keep on selling your soul, until your life bought up 
And my eyes on the prize, and never fall off the straight and I roll 
When you slip, hollow tips are sharper than an arrow 
(2x)

Bout to swang by that sun, is wait for me be right back 
I'ma roll a optimoe fat as a wiener, and light that 
Cause it seems I can't confine without, clutching a sack 
Puffing the sho' dipping the black, or raping the track 
And I be tripping and sipping, and pimping this rap 
I'm writing my rhymes, through my fetty's no slack 
I'm ready to the sell the, the better my chedda 
Tell her to the fella, I doubts the shredder 
A better competor, I dwell I'ma get her 
Better get fella, I sell-a my yella 
To hella thoed nigga, that wreck accapella 
The fella that tell it, nobody he got em 
He got 'em and shot em, and don't talk about em 
Plotted and followed, to get where I started 
Out of my product, the plot of my problem 
Got off my bottom, to talk to my father 
My ceiling is ending, my ending is finished 
These women keep grinning, to swim in my linen 
I'm tilling my bidness, the bidness I'm tilling 
I'm tilling my bidness, the bidness I'm tilling 
What's up what's up, had lean in my cup 
Been asleep ten years, and I just woke up 
The alarm on slow, all my ten minutes up 
Gotta make my bed, gotta watch my butt 
Gotta clean my room, gotta iron my stuff 
Gotta wash my car, gotta shine my buck 
Gotta change my oil, cause the road is tough 
Keep my eyes on the road, and don't slow up