Every day is a struggle
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How to hustle some doe
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If you was raised in the hood
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Well then you already know
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It be days that be good
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But mostly money be slow
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Have you ever been hungry before?
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Steady on the grind Stead on the grind
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'Cause I got to make it happen
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My family depending on me
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Steady on the grind Steady on the grind
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'Cause I got to make it happen
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Ain't nobody gone do it for me
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Ha ooh wa ooh ha ooh wa ooh
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Ha ooh wa ooh ha ooh wa ooh
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Steady on the grind
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Daily on the grind
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Money on my mind
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So heavy on my mind So heavy on my mind
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Mommy got a job makin' bout six-somethin' an hour
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She became the breadwinner when daddy was unemployed
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Working forty-plus hours and kissing ass
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Seeming like the only honest way she can get some cash
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She struggglin' - she don't know I be hustlin' pulling my own weight
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I be hearing them fuss and fightin' at night mad late
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Over economics; it's logic meaning they don't got it
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Living in the projects, money's the only object
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She makes $280 a week, standing on her feet
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The ends aint even meeting - the family ain't eatin'
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Cause if taxes is 10%, and the rest if for the rent
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Then crime is what u get and niggaz is innocent
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See it really ain't about if you eatin' or not eatin'
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It's breathin' or not breathin' - freedom or not freedom
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'nother day, 'nother way, 'nother dollar spent
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Gotta make a revolution out of fifteen cent.
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The Grind
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Erykah Badu |