Mary J. Blige]
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
("I'm A Hustler, I'm a-I'm Hustler, homie" - )
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
See I got my mind right, I'm a stay on the grind
I'm a put my work in
Get in where I fit in (Cause I hustle!)
Seven days of the week (I hustle!)
Just to stay on my feet
To all my single parent mothers just tryna survive
Doing what you gotta do, working nine to five (Cause you hustle!)
Gotta put food on the table (You hustle!)
Gotta keep the family strong
See I rhyme for the money, but I twenties and dimes
I got my mind on my money, for the money I grind (Cuz you hustle!)
I'm just tryna feed my seed (You hustle!)
Cause my mom need the cheese
This for my niggaz on the struggle that's tryna survive
That's ex-cons so they can't get a nine to five (Cuz we hustle!)
Hit the block, do what you do (We hustle!)
Cause other niggaz doin' it too, (yeah!)
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
("I'm A Hustler, I'm a-I'm Hustler, homie" - )
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
I stay with the trey-pound, I ain't playin' around
I got my gat at all times, that's the bottom line (Cause you hustle!)
Yeah, 'til I lie in the grave (Cause you hustle!)
Yeah, and I'm a try to get paid
This for my niggaz in the street
That play with the heat
It's Cassidy and M.J. on this Swizz beat (Cause we hustle!)
12 months of the year (We hustle!) It ain't a bunch of frontin' in here (yeah!)
Gotta hold my man down
We ain't playin' around
Got his back at all times
That's the bottom line (Cause we hustle!)
'Til the day we die (We hustle!)
To keep our love alive, to my fam' in the streets
We bringing the heat, Cassidy and Mary J. on the Swizz beat (Cause we hustle!)
7 days a week (we hustle!)
Just to stay on our feet (yeah!)
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
E-ve-ry-day, You know you gotta hustle baby
("I'm A Hustler, I'm a-I'm Hustler, homie" - )
You can't knock the hustle ba-by
Check it, you can fear or respect it
I wanna thank HOV for clearin the record (aight)
If you don't like this song right here, then your ears infected
You need to get your hearing corrected
Stones clear in the necklace, I wear so much plat on my neck
It put bruises on the back of my neck, that's why cats is upset
But I told you I'ma shine when its time to
I put too much time and I been rhymin since nine too
I knew "I'm a Hustla" was a hit
Cause everything I ever got I had to hustle to get
Ain't nobody give me nothing for free
But I'd probably be dead or in jail if it wasn't for T
Gettin booked is a bitch and catchin a slug, scary
I need to feed my seed, thanks for the love Mary
But seein me without the grams on the grind
Is like seein' Wesley Snipes in the tanning salon
I'm... the Hustla (the Hustla...) (yeah)
Do that dance, do that dance
If you a hustla then do that dance
Yeah, let's go
Do that dance, do that dance
If you a hustla then do that dance
Yeah, let's go
Do that dance, do that dance
It ain't a bunch of frontin' in here (yeah)
Gotta hold my man down
We ain't playin around
Got his back at all
If you a hustla then do that dance
Yeah, let's go