I’m fortunate to be alive
Can’t explain how I got here
But we’ve arrived
The deliverance and diligence
For which we strive
Is the feeling , there’s no ceiling
Is when we rise
Fortunate to have friends who don’t synthesize
I keep good company
We enterprise
Had a strong gaze since infant eyes
I guess I can see the power in the prize
Incentivized by the
Streets I identified
Other people’s struggles
I don’t minimize
Fortunate to be born and raised in the Chi
Salt of the earth
People with the bravest eye
They say your God is truth
I wasn’t raised to lie
Fortunate to be so que sera
Every day that I get up
I trace the sky
And draw with the Most High
On the place that I
Am
And that’s fortunate
Fortunate for the breath of life
And the breath of the Lord
Through Reverend Wright
Fortunate in my house ain’t a desperate wife
I studied life so I can test the mic
The laboratory of a rapper’s story
From the alley to the allegory
I pour rhyme in the time
Let it travel from me
The war with self is the biggest battle for me
Fortunate when I was twelve I let rap allure me
Fortunate through the wilderness I see the trees
In the forest there’s a lot of fallen mc’s
Fortunate that the God shared the lessons
He returned to the essence
I still feel his presence
Most of my brethren are from ‘87
Childhood friends
I’m glad that I kept them
Fortunate for the wisdom of the elders
And my grandmother and mother’s love
That never failed us
I’m fortunate
Fortunate I was raised around my Uncle Steve and my Uncle Charles
They both told me
Believe
The seeds of a revolutionary
Evolution’s very
Necessary
To become fruits and berries of our labor
Told to search for a savior
Fortunate I had a chance to raise her
In the days of the unknown
I’m fortunate to come home
To blocks we fought and swung on
Fortunate the Lord put me on the path
To used the microphone for a rod and a staff
Fortunate that my heart and the beat knocks
The windy city street bop
I’m Fortunate for Pete Rock
I’m fortunate