Let me get a chop at this niggas From da down underground are hangin' around the for a come up, workin' from 9 to 5 Just to get change so T-Mo can stay alive Not greedy or living' lavish yet but you can bet that I do Nobody from my will I forget And if I start to get and come up on some change I won't change, everybody know they
It's not the same, life can be different These laws got me to ball I fall a victim so I still be slanging them fat pillows To make 'em meet, each and every day as I my city streets I wish I never had been apart of this mess 'Cause the got us fucked up
It put us to the test, women and men if you you in Food for the soul listen to what I you it don't matter Young or old it's time we loc' up and do like we We killin' each other over 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 don't know myself I be too To feel sometimes, so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee Let my mind fly free into the so I can get this shit Off my mind, that's why I be smokin' that sometimes It keeps me from snappin', keeps me calm, keeps my mind me firm of what I gots to do off in the studio To get my old burd on her feet
And my little bro' in Statesboro and my cuz Mark Twain, all my Folks that hang me when 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 high to pray, but I get on my bed lay on my back and Anyway, in the ceilings, the four walls, it's cell therapy I got nothing to do but write about my L I F E, put it on paper So you feel?
I live for today, fuck another hour, it might be sour Never know my day, so I'm prayin' in the Look up and thank the 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 make it home, I'm not Someone's out to get me when I haven't done shit
My head swoll, mist couldn't see past my mouth What did you take man caught me by that loops of my pants Got me on the curb tha traffic pass me by No questions I said nothing lookin' for tha to be buckin' Tha law naw, man show him my shit close my mouth then I dip See to me G is a person who tha plan Can't make no moves you in tha hands of tha man They got some new down Peachtree
wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha hard heads Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks made Harts field Somebody don't want my face in tha place, for 96 shits Got me clean, lookin' fresh, dogs be 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 case Disgrace your face, make it to be safe ain't no place to run
Sometimes I don't even how I'm gonna eat 'Bout twenty dollars away being on the street Shit, you might see a nigga on TV but hell it's almost I'm rappin' for free little money be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta keep the heat and lights on It would be nice to mo' but I kinda like being po' At least I know my friends here fo'
I lie to you sometimes, but I can't I wanna tell you that all good, but it ain't It's nigga's hurtin' and 'bout if they gon' make it or not That's why we got nigga's killing, feelin like coming up Off a little they sold you can get some gold But we won't make it as a whole 'cause you there'd be no me And without no unity there never be any happiness You could a pound of sess and it still won't relieve yo' stress God bless my process
The process Now, now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't warned of the would come to meet me like Met Life, but yet life done Sent me a lot of ups and down like it ain't nothing' Like elevators but I ain't the one pushin' the buttons I got off at the 13th floor, when they me that it wasn't one They said it from 12 to 14
Still smoking, drinking, no I'm sittin' on the Lincoln 4 A.M. Thinkin' that in reality the world is like a full of playas We trapped off in this with walls made of layers And only is the tightest game that you can have The devil's takin' a swing that might explain the glass But my ball see the pistol fall to the wayside Nobody would die in cops and robbers we used to play right
Huh, the only thang we feared was Williams, Never though about licks or slangin' caine Didn't think I'd be the one to give in to Label me because my ass is scorchin' Hot from the that sits under my seat Yeah, it's real fucked up that my folks to get me And it's like dat, yeah, and it's dem