Let me get a chop at this niggas From da down are hangin' around the A-Town for a come up, workin' from 9 to 5 Just to get some change so can stay alive Not greedy or lavish yet but you can bet that when I do from my crew will I forget And if I start to get large and up on some change I won't change, know they down
It's not the same, everyday can be different These laws got me to ball 'Cause I fall a victim so I still be slanging fat pillows To make 'em meet, and every day as I comb my city streets Sometimes I wish I never had been apart of this 'Cause the got us fucked up
It put us to the test, and men if you black you in Food for the soul to what I tell you it don't matter Young or old time we loc' up and do like we suppose We killin' each other this bullshit and some clothes We're trapped off in this world and society with no place to go So how you
Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I know myself I be too numb To feel sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee Let my mind fly free into the wilderness so I can get this Off my mind, that's why I be smokin' that dank It keeps me from snappin', keeps me calm, my mind open Keeps me firm of what I 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 with me I was out in the trap or when I was goin' one of our episodes, only God knows, what I go through So I get down on my knees, I come home Too to pray, but I get on my bed lay on my back and meditate Anyway, in the ceilings, the four walls, it's like therapy I got nothing to do but write my L I F E, put it down on paper So what you
I live for today, mother another hour, it might be sour Never know my day, so I'm in the shower Look up and thank the Lord for forgiveness, a to bad I'm lookin' for in the Southwest, God bless my neighborhood It's people killin' in da street to eat the day Is the only goat that I set to make it home, I'm not alone Someone's out to get me when I haven't shit wrong
My head felt swoll, mist couldn't see my mouth What did you take man caught me by that loops of my pants Got me on the lettin' tha traffic pass me by No I said nothing lookin' for tha mutant to be buckin' Tha law naw, man Gipp show him my shit close my mouth I dip See to me G is a who understand tha plan Can't no moves when you in tha hands of tha man They got some new suites down
wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha hard heads Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks with Harts field Somebody don't want my face in tha place, for 96 shits Got me clean, lookin' fresh, dogs be at my chest Under the order of who? Guess who ain't than miller Wanna 1, 2 ass no more life what you gave was tha past 'Cause no future wanna milliamp your case Disgrace your face, make it seem to be safe no place to run
Sometimes I don't even how I'm gonna eat 'Bout dollars away from being on the street Shit, you might see a on TV but hell it's almost like I'm rappin' for free little money be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta help keep the heat and on It would be nice to have mo' but I like being po' At least I know my friends here fo'
I wanna lie to you sometimes, but I I tell you that it's all good, but it ain't It's nigga's hurtin' and uncertain 'bout if gon' make it or not That's why we got nigga's killing, like they coming up Off a little dope they you can get some gold But we won't make it as a whole 'cause without you be no me And without no unity there will be any happiness You could smoke a pound of sess and it still won't yo' stress God bless my thought
The thought Now, now as an Outkast I was born, warned of the harm That would come to me like Met Life, but yet life done Sent me through a lot of ups and down like it ain't Like elevators but I ain't the one that's pushin' the I got off at the 13th floor, when they me that it wasn't one They it skipped from 12 to 14
Still smoking, drinking, no I'm sittin' on the Lincoln 4 A.M. Thinkin' in reality the world is like a ball full 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 a swing that might explain the broken glass But my crystal ball see the fall to the wayside Nobody would die in cops and robbers when we to play right
Huh, the only thang we feared was Williams, Never though about hittin' licks or slangin' Didn't think I'd be the one to in to abortion Label me murder my ass is scorchin' Hot the Glock that sits under my seat Yeah, it's fucked up that my folks come to get me And like dat, yeah, and it's like dem