[00:10.48]I just want you to know (Everybody needs a hero)
[00:15.99]There is so much more (Everybody needs a hero)
[00:21.30]When you try (You should try)
[00:24.04]When you try (You will try)
[00:26.69]When you try (You should try)
[00:31.39]I wanna see us all rise above that poverty line
[00:34.00]Teach them how to cross the T's, put a dot on them I's
[00:36.75]A lot of folks fell victim high, lot of them died
[00:39.35]Swallow pride to survive and it got me some time
[00:42.16]It's hard to play the block early, go to school late
[00:45.05]I wonder what the world see when the product turn great
[00:47.96]And start getting cake, fitting but he ain't fake
[00:50.41]Can't put him in a box cause he attracting real estate
[00:53.63]He went to college, got a degree and he polished
[00:56.28]Respectful to say the least, and them records he just demolished
[00:58.84]Proud of the place that bred him, give credit to his accomplice
[01:01.48]Still involved with the streets, if they hit him he still responsive
[01:04.80]It's a jungle out there, people watch your back
[01:07.51]And watch your front because people be tryna front
[01:09.80]I ain't got them kind of problems, never been the type to stunt
[01:12.31]Where I'm from that gets you burnt and I'm not yearning for the sun
[01:15.88]I just want you to know (Everybody needs a hero)
[01:21.33]There is so much more (Everybody needs a hero)
[01:26.74]When you try (You should try)
[01:29.31]When you try (You will try)
[01:32.08]When you try (You should try)
[01:37.55]Growing up seemed like all the ones that was doing good
[01:39.93]Was just around so they could say they loyal to the hood
[01:42.70]I mean some was like football gods, that'll show the strength of them slumdog odds
[01:48.41]Sometimes you gotta move away to make away
[01:50.87]Devil wants you coming back when you should stay away
[01:53.48]I learned to do it for myself and you could say today
[01:56.06]That's the road that paper play, now we ain't saving paper plates
[01:59.02]I swear I wish that I could drive that bus
[02:01.57]With them hood stars and has-beens that grind like us
[02:04.21]Try to shine like us, but it's a fine line
[02:07.01]Trust me when I tell you we can thrive with a mind like us
[02:09.67]A world different that'll kill you if you ask for
[02:12.26]Something in the air we breathe, you need a mask for
[02:14.97]I'd rather see my folks with stamps up on their passports
[02:17.51]I stay in touch because I be feeling like the last source
[02:21.40]I just want you to know (Everybody needs a hero)
[02:26.85]There is so much more (Everybody needs a hero)
[02:32.15]When you try (You should try)
[02:34.54]When you try (You will try)
[02:37.73]When you try (You should try)
[02:42.36]I done been robbed at gunpoint, failed a couple classes
[02:45.11]Grew apart from friendships I thought was everlasting
[02:47.97]Changed me for the better, I ain't end up in a casket
[02:50.67]Held on for the ride, my side seatbelt was fastened
[02:53.31]Share my life experience because it just got sweet
[02:55.92]And I can't recall a time when my guts got weak
[02:58.64]Golly, you can't tell me we ain't capable of rising
[03:01.46]Tryna get the people following like I'm Verizon
[03:04.85]It's crazy how I feel the ones that genuine
[03:07.72]When I'm hearing they stories feel like a kin to them
[03:10.27]Or we like one in the same, we like a synonym
[03:12.76]I be defending them because I be really feeling them
[03:15.67]My whole circle got degrees and weight up on they shoulders
[03:18.28]Steady jobbing making sure them kids do what they supposed to
[03:21.09]To the top with my seat hot, boy, I'm like Erik Spoelstra
[03:23.64]For all the marbles, I'm colder than 2 from Villanova
[03:27.06]I just want you to know (Everybody needs a hero)
[03:32.11]There is so much more (Everybody needs a hero)
[03:37.57]When you try (You should try)
[03:40.12]When you try (You will try)
[03:42.97]When you try (You should try)