
Date of issue: 11.09.2006
Record label: Mobile Home
Song language: English
One for The... |
Let me tell you 'bout my gangster wit I don’t follow no clique |
I’m quick to flip a dollar out of 15 cents for rent |
I’m a scholar in a blue Impala with dents |
Such is life a stand up man that bent |
I use this mic and MPC to vent |
2000 ways to slay a beat and hint |
At what it all means brothers gonna call me dense |
When I take my brain and let it touch the rain |
And since then I’m a young king in training |
And listening to the wind to see what its saying |
In glimpses sometimes it all seems senseless |
You trapped outside of white picket fences |
Still gotta figure out a way how to make it real |
In three ways: sports, crack or a record deal |
And the homies know how I feel |
Till I’m on the next level I’m a grind at will |
One for the money two for the show |
Three for the homies who got in the back door |
One for the money two for the show |
Three for the honies who got in the back door |
Us rappers we love to tell the stories again and again |
About the burning fire that rages within |
But all you ever hearing everyday from your friends |
Is that if you leave the herd there’s no way you can win |
So what you gonna think about? |
When everything around you is negative including your bank account |
Scrapin' out a living in a major drought |
With no avenue to let your anger out |
You rattle your cage and shout |
You pray they break you out |
You stay truly devout |
'Cause you wade through doubt so deep |
That you can’t tune it out |
Blood boiling, you ain’t cooling out |
And that’s why I stand on every stage and kick that verse |
Like it’s the first and last time I’ll ever say it |
I’m nothing if I’m not dedicated |
Every win is celebrated for the soldiers that never made it |
Trying to figure out where Awesome Dre went |
And why Grand Master Cas still ain’t been paid yet |
So since I’m blessed to run around the nation |
I’m obligated to find a new lane and pave it |
So if the little homies ever want to disconnect |
From the matrix and jump off the slave ships |
And when they swim they’ll have a destination |
And they can come right on along and hit the same lick |
Its entertainment but its more than that |
Why you think Slug took me on the tour in fact? |
Why you think El-P put his boys on wax? |
And why you think Little Brother’s in the door like that? |
It’s because God gave us something that makes us |
More than record breakers, we’re our own saviors |
Ask the average man about taking his life |
In his own hands |
And he won’t understand |
That idea was stolen with the land |
And we scrape for the few crumbs that fall from the hand |
Live life hungry, work to get bummy |
Or run we they 3, 2, 1 for the money |
One for the money two for the show |
Three for the homies who got in the back door |
One for the money two for the show |
Three for the honies who got in the back door |
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