Otherside Of America (Explicit)

[00:00.00]Meek Mill - Otherside Of America (Explicit)
[00:00.37]What do you have to lose
[00:01.47]You’re living in poverty
[00:03.04]Your schools are no good
[00:04.71]You have no jobs
[00:06.88]58% of your youth is unemployed
[00:12.06]What the hell do you have to lose
[00:16.50]Reportin' live from the other side of America
[00:20.65]Mama let me sip the forty
[00:22.34]I was just a shorty d**n
[00:24.11]Then I started spittin' godly
[00:25.73]Then they said 'record me'
[00:27.17]I feel like this sh*t was for me
[00:29.04]This sh*t just my story facts yeah uh
[00:32.16]Jumped off the porch uh
[00:34.00]I got a Porsche won't take it back
[00:35.63]I'm on the block with the killers
[00:36.84]And holdin' my own of course
[00:38.06]Yeah check check
[00:38.76]I seen my mom and dad separate
[00:40.38]Ain't talkin' divorce talkin' divorce
[00:41.90]Said daddy was livin' by the fire
[00:43.31]And he died by the torch check check
[00:45.29]I'm where the AKs is we like the Bébé's Kids
[00:48.66]Ain't have a daddy
[00:49.31]I listened to suckas the same way that Ray Ray did
[00:51.79]I'm totin' Smith &'s and HKs and I just was a grade A kid
[00:55.18]Ain't have no guidance
[00:56.24]We grew up with hitters and did everything they said
[00:58.47]Point out the block we spinnin' that spinnin'
[01:00.04]Run in the spot we gettin' that get it
[01:01.76]Give us some work we flippin' that flippin'
[01:03.33]I'm hittin' from jail they ain't hittin' back
[01:05.04]I need a lawyer money for commissary
[01:06.72]And nobody ain't sendin' that
[01:08.18]I'm in my cell like when I get out
[01:09.75]I'm makin' a movie no Cinemax woo
[01:12.29]Yeah back home and I'm fresh on bail
[01:14.76]Phone chirpin' it was next to Tell
[01:16.42]Block poppin' it was extra sales
[01:17.99]Big dogs they ain't showin' remorse
[01:19.71]I was beggin' just to catch a sale
[01:21.28]Same block we was goin' to war
[01:22.89]I was prayin' I ain't catch a shell check
[01:25.35]Uh we was starvin' for a thousand nights
[01:27.91]Livin' like we tryna die tonight
[01:29.38]Glock .40 sound like dynamite
[01:31.00]I was f**kin' up my cop money
[01:32.72]Sellin' soap like it's China white
[01:34.37]OG's said you f**kin' the block up
[01:35.94]I was mad I was tryna fight
[01:37.51]N**ga we hungry
[01:39.27]Mama at work daddy
[01:40.33]He dead n**ga we lonely
[01:42.57]Stomach growlin' like a AMG
[01:43.89]Goin' to bed we hungry
[01:45.71]Uzi on me all my friends are dead
[01:47.28]N**ga we lonely
[01:48.99]Reportin' live from the other side of America
[01:51.38]Reportin' live from the other side yeah
[01:53.20]Same corner where my brothers died yeah
[01:54.72]Livin' life we ain't got a care
[01:56.36]Told my mama I ain't dyin' here no
[01:57.97].40 on me I ain't buyin' beer no
[01:59.58]Ain't have a will now I'm flyin' Lear
[02:01.25]Bunch of felons on the jet with me
[02:02.82]Make a movie like it's Con Air
[02:04.54]Started off in the basement
[02:05.91]Now it's rooftops and LeBron there
[02:07.72]Still fightin' open cases
[02:09.13]Out on bail n**ga but it's my year
[02:11.01]Summertime it get cold out
[02:12.53]Heater on me like a Moncler
[02:14.30]Closet bigger than my old house
[02:15.92]Thinkin' 'bout it I was fine there
[02:17.74]Came out the dirt dirt
[02:18.80]Dedicated I was makin' it work
[02:20.47]Medicated I was takin' them Percs
[02:22.09]Devastated when my n**gas got murked
[02:23.71]Educated had to get to it first
[02:25.32]I knew trappin' it would get me in jail
[02:26.88]Playin' with pistols it would get me a hearse
[02:28.49]But I ain't give a f**k send me to church wo
[02:30.61]Yeah they gotta catch me in traffic traffic
[02:33.11]I ain't with none of this rap sh*t rap sh*t
[02:34.86]I've been tryna run from these caskets
[02:36.29]All this pain built in me n**ga
[02:37.86]You don't want none of this action
[02:39.59]Go get some money and feed your fam
[02:41.10]'Cause this is a f**kin' disaster yeah
[02:43.65]Uh we was starvin' for a thousand nights
[02:46.13]Livin' like we tryna die tonight
[02:47.74]Glock .40 sound like dynamite
[02:49.31]I was f**kin' up my cop money
[02:51.12]Sellin' soap like it's China white
[02:52.73]OG's said you f**kin' the block up
[02:54.31]I was mad I was tryna fight
[02:55.92]N**ga we hungry
[02:57.62]Mama at work daddy
[02:58.68]He dead n**ga we lonely
[03:00.75]Stomach growlin' like a AMG
[03:02.27]Goin' to bed we hungry
[03:04.04]Uzi on me all my friends are dead
[03:05.71]N**ga we lonely
[03:07.31]Reportin' live from the other side of America
[03:09.49]I always dreamed too of being like
[03:11.20]On like CNN and being able to like express myself
[03:13.90]And and and speak for like the
[03:15.74]Voiceless young men of America do it
[03:18.47]The first step I would say
[03:19.58]I grew up an American in a ruthless neighborhood
[03:21.81]Where we were not protected by police uh
[03:24.49]We grew up in ruthless environments
[03:26.31]We grew up around murder you see murder
[03:28.55]You see seven people die a week
[03:30.21]I think you would probably carry a gun yourself
[03:32.56]Would you uh yeah I probably would