Letting it be, it's a me, it's what I see
Letting it be, it's a, it's hard to see
To let it be, it's a me, it's what I see
Man, they gon', they gon', man, they gon' knock this in
Right out to this, uh
It sit deep in my chest, so let me express
Grew up on 86, say, oh, y'all don't need the address
It was round CVS, we were so DVS
The city never sleeps, it be needin' some rest
The streets was a mess, and they still all feel all our pain
To pick a picture, we was all framed
But the game is the game, so let it begin
In these streets, these are the seven deadly sins
Now the first is pride, though some call it vanity
A hustler's insanity can break up the family
Pride can have a man stuck in his ways, not subject to change
Knowing it all, end up in the grave
It's the same thing, it's the same thing

It's the arrogance, they sayin', us Americans
Messes up marriages, many sins
Pride is parenting, like the second is somethin' we all have
Or felt and cane, a con, it's called wrath
I seen the boss take it out on the staff
Seen the crip take it out on the blood, causin' a bath
Never seen a man makin' money while he mad
So hustle plus wrath, y'all do the math
Now the third, you probably heard from M.O.P.
They say use them rocks to make them envy, envy
The cousin of jealousy, on the streets it's a felony
When it ends, f**kin' with you, but commit infidelity
They hate it, to see you celebrate it
Countin' my paper, then you could've made it
Let me stay with that thought, takes us to the fourth
When it's lazy, that's what we call sloth
Want you to break them off, gettin' money it costs
For you to be a boss, ain't no takin' off
Now the myth about the fifth, it only happens when we eat
It's gluttony, this is how it happens on the street
It's a dude that's gettin' money, it's a dude that's gettin' money
It paid in full, cars and jewels, so it's played his fool
But the way this f**k move, he is never fool
And he gon' want your food, don't overdo it
That's a underrated rule
The sixth is a fix, that's in all of us
When I get drunk and wanna bust, this is what we call lust
When the draws go down, the guards go down
Cause a f**k, here's somebody gettin' robbed right now
Okay, the seventh is a seed that many believe
It's the cause of them all, this is what we call greed
Knew some cousins that was hustin', one of them ended up bustin' the other
Greed is a mother, it's greedy mother f**k
It's like Madoff, cops gettin' paid off
Greedy companies got my people gettin' laid off
Before I sign off, in the sense we livin'
The good thing is we can be forgiven
Seven deadly sins
Let me be, it's a
To me it's what I see
Let me be, it's a
It's hard to see too