Let me get a at this lumber niggas From da underground are hangin' around the A-Town Lookin' for a come up, workin' 9 to 5 Just to get change so T-Mo can stay alive Not greedy or living' lavish yet but you can bet when I do Nobody from my crew I forget And if I start to get large and come up on some I won't change, know they down
not the same, everyday life can be different These laws got me ready to I fall a victim so I still be slanging them fat pillows To make 'em meet, each and every day as I comb my city Sometimes I wish I never had been apart of mess 'Cause the system got us up
It put us to the test, women and men if you you in Food for the soul listen to what I tell you it matter or old it's time we loc' up and do like we suppose We killin' other over this bullshit and some clothes We're trapped off in this world and society no place else to go So how you
Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I know myself I be too numb To something sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee Let my mind fly free into the wilderness so I can get shit Off my mind, why I be smokin' that dank sometimes It keeps me from snappin', keeps me calm, my mind open me firm of what I gots to do off in the studio To get my old burd on her feet
And my bro' in Statesboro and my little cuz Mark Twain, all my Folks that hang me when I was out in the trap or when I was goin' Through one of our episodes, only God knows, what I go So I get down on my knees, I come home Too high to pray, but I get on my bed lay on my and meditate Anyway, in the ceilings, the walls, it's like cell therapy I got nothing to do but write about my L I F E, put it on paper So what you
I live for today, mother fuck another hour, it might be know my day, so I'm prayin' in the shower Look up and thank the Lord for forgiveness, a to bad I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God bless my It's people in da street to eat surviving the day Is the only goat that I set just to make it home, I'm not Someone's out to get me when I haven't done wrong
My head felt swoll, mist see past my mouth What route did you man caught me by that loops of my pants Got me on the lettin' tha traffic pass me by No questions I said nothing lookin' for tha mutant to be Tha law naw, man Gipp him my shit close my mouth then I dip See to me G is a person who understand tha make no moves when you in tha hands of tha man They got new suites down Peachtree
Left wing for tha Feds, right for tha hard heads Makin' more than Buddy Folks made with Harts field don't want my face in tha place, for 96 shits slick Got me clean, lookin' fresh, be scratchin' at my chest Under the order of who? Guess who non-iller than miller Wanna 1, 2 your ass no more life you gave was tha past 'Cause ain't no future milliamp your case Disgrace your face, make it seem to be safe no place to run
Sometimes I even know how I'm gonna eat 'Bout twenty dollars away from being on the Shit, you might see a nigga on TV but it's almost like I'm rappin' for free that little be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta help the heat and lights on It would be nice to have mo' but I kinda like po' At least I know what my here fo'
I lie to you sometimes, but I can't I wanna tell you that all good, but it ain't It's hurtin' and uncertain 'bout if they gon' make it or not That's why we got nigga's killing, feelin they coming up Off a dope they sold you can get some gold But we won't make it as a whole without you there'd be no me And without no unity there will be any happiness You could smoke a pound of sess and it won't relieve yo' stress God bless my process
The thought Now, now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't warned of the That would come to me like Met Life, but yet life done me through a lot of ups and down like it ain't nothing' Like elevators but I the one that's pushin' the buttons I got off at the 13th floor, when they told me that it one said it skipped from 12 to 14
Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm sittin' on the 4 A.M. Thinkin' that in reality the world is like a ball of playas We off in this maze with walls made of layers And only prayers is the tightest game that you can The devil's takin' a swing that explain the broken glass But my ball see the pistol fall to the wayside Nobody would die in cops and when we used to play right
Huh, the only thang we was Williams, Wayne Never though about licks or slangin' caine Didn't think I'd be the one to give in to Label me murder my ass is scorchin' Hot from the Glock that sits my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up my folks come to get me And it's dat, yeah, and it's like dem