Artist: DTMD
Album:  Makin' Dollas
Song:   The Struggle Is Real
Typed by: @DTMDmusic @MelloMusicGroup

you know the struggle is real
whether you on the block, and you clutching the steel
hustling for As or tryna to pay bills
or just living in the world tryna find something real
you know the struggle is real
you try to run away but it lives on still
you gotta face it, embrace it with skill
thats why I'm on mic tryna get ill...cause its real

and we going worldwide
slap hands and plan with mans for the ride
DTMD: Doing Things Making Dreams?
or Dodging The Masses with Dope for the fiends
we hope for the means, serving food for the mental
giving you drive while most settle for rentals
the truth, we invoke...
so if you dilligent to the same, we kinfolk
and if you lighting it up, pass the indo
still number 1 with a no. 2 pencil
and the object is to get dough
but progress be a bitch though
cause sometimes its a bit slow
and the grind make you shift yo...face
to the constant frown
can't relate to the niggas you grew up around
cause your path to the freedom is getting off the ground
now how that sound...?
its a struggle....

you know the struggle is real
whether you on the block, and you clutching the steel
hustling for As or tryna to pay bills
or just living in the world tryna find something real
you know the struggle is real
you try to run away but it lives on still
you gotta face it, embrace it with skill
thats why I'm on mic tryna get ill...cause its real

and its strange as hell
seeing beautiful minds rearrange themselves
but who can really say they remain themselves
when the world here telling you to change yourself
and your best friends lust for the fame & wealth
...well mostly the fame
but the idea's more relevant than a name
the evidence is plain
but niggas line up to be a pawn in this game
you gotta to think a little deeper
hip-hop ain't about pushing a two seater
or knowing a few divas
blowing a little reefer
or new sneakers
we more like the substitute teachers
cause I learned more from Black Star and Black Thought
than I ever did from any class of any sort
so I hope niggas don't distort
the message in the rhymes I report
come up short, ignoring my lines
to snort talcum, no raw
cause lyrically I speak Malcolm
modeling flaws
on beats bouncing
i be the law
for the minds on the grind
don't worry I got ya'll, we all in the struggle