Get It Together - E-40, Mac Mall

Young brothers gotta get it together

Young brothers gotta get it together

I know you’re out there gettin' ya cheddar

But we still gotta get it together

And work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

You’re somebody’s son and you’re somebody’s father

Young brother, just know I want you to live

Don’t wanna see you popped up in the pen like brother and father did

Don’t wanna see you bust your steel and another brother get killed

Still, we do it to ourself and that’s ill for real

Youngin’s fuckin' up they future tryna be treal

D.A.

give you forever, now he wanna make a deal

But he shoulda made a plan instead of fast petty scams

Shoulda thought about his fam instead of tryna be the man

Grands in his hand, now he stand in the can feelin' ‘damn'

Now you’re finally on your knees prayin'

Askin' God for forgiveness, wish you thought about God before you did it

Shoulda listened instead of being out there trippin'

Can’t play the victim, must hold yourself accountable

You don’t want your kids growin' up without you, fool

Man up is what you need to do

To yourself, you got somethin' to prove and everything to lose

Young brothers gotta get it together

Young brothers gotta get it together

I know you’re out there gettin' ya cheddar

But we still gotta get it together

And work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

You’re somebody’s son and you’re somebody’s father

You gotta live to learn but you gotta learn to live

Sick of seein' our kids dyin' tryna get rich

Seen too many die for blocks that they threw up

On corners that we grew up

Blood drainin' down into the sewers

Surrounded by death, it can do somethin' to ya

I’m prayin' for our future, hope we remember the true us

We was rulers, not just dealers and users

Scholars and builders, not just thieves and shooters

Remember that before you kill another black

Before you serve some more crack

Remember it’s us caught in the trap

Like sheeps to the slaughter, every day is gettin' harder

When you’re gone, put your face on a shirt, a ghetto martyr

That’s why we gotta be smarter and work harder

And if we work together, brother, we can get farther

You know they run game, mane, the same divide and conquer

That’s why we come up, don’t let the system take us under

Young brothers gotta get it together

Young brothers gotta get it together

I know you’re out there gettin' ya cheddar

But we still gotta get it together

And work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

You’re somebody’s son and you’re somebody’s father

(E-40: Cuzo, let me holla at ‘em)

Let’s put our money together, let’s put our money together

Let’s beat the system, too many of us in prison

I know I’m always gone but I love my town

Rest in peace Mac Dre, I know you’re lookin' down

People think we hated each other but we respected each other

You was from one side and I was from the other

Two Vallejo brothers, none of us suckers, legendary

Just like Studio Ton and Khayree

I can go on and on to shout out the V

So much talent, so much history

So many memories when it used to be cool

To leave your screen door open and walk home from school

Without gettin' stolen or shot in the process

It’s difficult for these kids to make some progress

It’s a mess, my city need a prayer (What you need to do?)

40 need to have a sitdown with the mayor (For real)

Young brothers gotta get it together

Young brothers gotta get it together

I know you’re out there gettin' ya cheddar

But we still gotta get it together

And work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

Work hard, work smarter

You’re somebody’s son and you’re somebody’s father