I'm steady tryin' to find the motive, why I do what I do

Meaning

Life of a street dude, always at war with himself

Akon blames poverty for evil, but Shakespeare’s Richard III’s motive for acting evil was his hunchback:

I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion
Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature

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