BIG DREAMS

It's not me, exactly who touches people It's what I represent The possibility that dreams from long ago may still come true Even if they look lost forever I had a homie named Tony 16-62 Headed to the MBA straight from high school My nigga had his ball game on lock But at the same time he was in love with the black artist What came with it the drugs and the guns The gangs, the slang and all the funs He just got a letter of taint from the cavalier Saying how they love him and how they wish he was there He had it made like special aired About to get the bread But chose to do something dumb instead Go to war with the crew on the other side of town It was most ready and Tony got laid down He didn't even have a chance Die for the ever lanced He got tombed so many whipped on I hate to tell the story but that's how it is Growing up in the hood as a kid When you got big dreams Don't listen to what nobody say And don't let nobody turn you away When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side When you got big dreams Don't listen to what nobody say And don't let nobody turn you away When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side Reach for the sky I knew a girl named Gina that was a hell of a singer And everybody in love with her when they seen her Body girl was on the verge of signing a big deal Eighteen and life looked so so real She was stuck with a dude that was all bad news And all he ever did was give baby the blues But she was true to her nigga Do for her nigga Pop you and your whole crew for her nigga One night the cane picked her up and told her let's ride Just to sing daddy night and watched her die They was trying to hear the lick but the lick kicked back And an end to the deal and all of that She ain't even have to be there you know wasn't right Now he gotta deal with it for the rest of his life In the part home like he even get grades The home girl Gina is lying in the grave When you got big dreams Don't listen to what nobody say And don't let nobody turn you away When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side When you got big dreams Don't listen to what nobody say And don't let nobody turn you away When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side Reach for the sky I got a few relatives give family drama Got their hands out when they see me and my mama One could have been a doctor the other a chef But when he got his own kitchen he was cooking something else Now his life down the drain a trite full of shame He all washed up while took anything No car no moan no house And every where he goes he stole so they throw him out I was growing up looking up to be like them I'm throwing up cash rolling up in the Benz I was stuck with a dream I had so surely I'll be damned if I let another man support me now Uncle Ju Buck is sick as hell He got AIDS in his body from the needles he share Anytime he got his welfare checks he don't care You wanna see him go to the crack house he there When you got big dreams Don't listen to what nobody say And don't let nobody turn you away When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side When you got big dreams Don't listen to what nobody say And don't let nobody turn you away When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side Reach for the sky When you got big dreams When you got big dreams When you got big dreams When you got big dreams Keep your eyes on the prize Don't fall to the way side Reach for the sky