Let me get a chop at this 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 or living' lavish yet but you can bet that when I do Nobody my crew will I forget And if I start to get and come up on some change I won't change, everybody know they
not the same, everyday life can be different These laws got me ready to 'Cause I fall a victim so I still be them fat pillows To make 'em meet, each and every day as I my city streets Sometimes I wish I had been apart of this mess 'Cause the system got us up
It put us to the test, and men if you black you in Food for the soul listen to what I tell you it don't Young or old it's time we loc' up and do like we We killin' each other over this bullshit and clothes We're trapped off in this world and society with no place to go So how you
Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I don't myself I be too numb To feel sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee Let my mind fly free the wilderness so I can get this shit 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 back on her feet
And my bro' in Statesboro and my little cuz Mark Twain, all my Folks that hang with me when I was out in the trap or when I was Through one of our episodes, only God knows, what I go So I get down on my knees, sometimes I come Too high to pray, but I get on my bed lay on my back and Anyway, in the ceilings, the four walls, it's like therapy I got to do but write about my L I F E, put it down on paper So you feel?
I live for today, fuck another hour, it might be sour Never know my day, so I'm in the shower up and thank the Lord for forgiveness, a witness to bad I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God bless my It's people killin' in da to eat surviving the day Is the only goat that I set just to it home, I'm not alone Someone's out to get me I haven't done shit wrong
My head felt swoll, mist couldn't see past my What route did you take man caught me by that of my pants Got me on the lettin' tha traffic pass me by No questions I said lookin' for tha mutant to be buckin' Tha law naw, man Gipp show him my shit close my then I dip See to me G is a person who understand tha Can't make no moves when you in tha of tha man They got some new suites Peachtree
Left wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha heads Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks made Harts field Somebody don't my face in tha place, for 96 shits slick Got me clean, lookin' fresh, be scratchin' at my chest the order of who? Guess who ain't non-iller than miller Wanna 1, 2 your ass no life what you gave was tha past 'Cause ain't no future wanna milliamp your Disgrace your face, make it to be safe ain't no place to run
I don't even know how I'm gonna eat 'Bout twenty dollars away from being on the Shit, you might see a nigga on TV but hell it's almost I'm rappin' for that little money be gone, got dammit, I'm grown help keep the heat and lights on It would be nice to mo' but I kinda like being po' At least I know what my friends fo'
I wanna lie to you sometimes, but I I wanna you that it's all good, but it ain't nigga'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 little dope they sold you can get gold But we won't make it as a 'cause without you there'd be no me And no unity there will never be any happiness You could smoke a pound of and it still won't relieve yo' stress God bless my thought
The process Now, now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't of the harm That come to meet me like Met Life, but yet life done Sent me through a lot of ups and down like it nothing' Like but I ain't the one that's pushin' the buttons I got off at the 13th floor, when told me that it wasn't one They said it from 12 to 14
Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm sittin' on the 4 A.M. Thinkin' that in reality the world is a ball full of playas We trapped off in this maze with made of layers And only prayers is the tightest game you can have The devil's takin' a swing might explain the broken glass But my ball see the pistol fall to the wayside Nobody would die in and robbers when we used to play right
Huh, the only we feared was Williams, Wayne Never though hittin' licks or slangin' caine Didn't think I'd be the one to give in to me murder because my ass is scorchin' Hot from the Glock that sits my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up that my folks to get me And like dat, yeah, and it's like dem