Doin' My Job

Hey I'm working here, know what I'm saying Try to put yourself in my shoes for a second Its not personal I'm just saying though Hey look From when the moon came out 'till the sun came up I was supplying the days when where they flame up Our mamas passing, by trying to explain us Pissing in the bushes like they never house trained us But, try to understand that's how we came up You get to know us, you'll love us but you can't change us (naw) Really we rather be rich and famous But in the mean time were forced to slang dust 'Dro or crack cocaine, Penicillin to Rogaine Ecstacy, Viagra, whatever'll get the dough man I'm tired of people mis-representing my dough man Oh you think we out here killing for nothing, hustling For no gain (picture that) Hey man I'm just doing my job Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job I don't want to make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job You live here, I work here I'm doing my job I don't know if you don't know, don't care or can't see Every time something up in the hood, it ain't me And I ain't always up to no good and know the crease And we ain't always gotta pass through the hood without speaking (how you doing) We ain't out here threatening your lives, raping your children We just out here staying alive, making a million (you know) Working hard, trying to survive chasing a mill-ion You hear us talking loud, just think of this is chameleon React to the situations, but accusations is still We vulgarizing you how, hey man you just hurting my feelings (man). We got lives, we want to live nice too We got moms, dads, wives, kids just like you But our options are few it hell in high school When your helping with the rent lights and the gas bill too So before you go judging us loving us won't hurt Yeah under 25, staying alive is hard work Hey man I'm just doing my job Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job I don't want to make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job You live here, I work here I'm doing my job And for you to see what I'm saying, open eyes will help If you could think about somebody besides yourself Why you pointing fingers at me, analyze yourself Quit all that chastising and try to provide some help Instead of calling the law, you busting my balls With all due respect, we don't even need to be fucking with y'all (man) And we can't help it cause it is like this We don't like it no more than you that we live like this Always stuck in the grind summertime to wintertime Cutting school to sell fifty dimes by dinner time See everything we know we learned from the streets Since thirteen I've been hustling and earning my keep Hey man I'm just doing my job Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job I don't want to make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job You live here, I work here I'm doing my job --- Doin' My Job - T.I.