Let me get a chop at this niggas da down underground are hangin' around the A-Town Lookin' for a come up, from 9 to 5 Just to get some so T-Mo can stay alive Not greedy or living' yet but you can bet that when I do Nobody from my crew will I And if I start to get large and come up on change I won't change, everybody know they
It's not the same, life can be different These laws got me to ball '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 never had been apart of this the system got us fucked up
It put us to the test, women and men if you you in Food for the soul to what I tell you it don't matter Young or old it's time we loc' up and do like we We killin' each other over this and some clothes We're trapped off in this and society with 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', me calm, keeps my mind open Keeps me firm of I gots to do off in the studio To get my old burd on her feet
And my little bro' in Statesboro and my little cuz Twain, all my Folks that hang with me when I was out in the trap or I was goin' Through one of our episodes, only God knows, 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, like cell therapy I got nothing to do but about my L I F E, put it down on paper So what you
I live for today, mother fuck hour, it might be sour know my day, so I'm prayin' in the shower Look up and thank the for forgiveness, a witness to bad I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God my neighborhood 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 done shit wrong
My head felt swoll, mist see past my mouth What route did you take man caught me by loops of my pants Got me on the curb lettin' tha pass me by No questions I said nothing 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 person who understand tha Can't no moves when you in tha hands of tha man They got some new suites Peachtree
wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha hard heads Makin' more than Buddy Folks made with Harts field Somebody don't want my in tha place, for 96 shits slick Got me clean, fresh, dogs be scratchin' at my chest Under the order of who? Guess who ain't than miller Wanna 1, 2 your ass no more life what you was tha past 'Cause ain't no future wanna milliamp your Disgrace face, make it seem to be safe ain't no place to run
Sometimes I don't even know how I'm eat 'Bout twenty dollars away from being on the Shit, you might see a on TV but hell it's almost like I'm for free that little money be gone, got dammit, I'm grown Gotta help the heat and lights on It would be to have mo' but I kinda like being po' At least I know what my friends 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 little dope sold you can get some gold But we won't it as a whole 'cause without you there'd be no me And without no there will never be any happiness You could smoke a pound of sess and it won't relieve yo' stress God bless my process
The process Now, now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't warned of the That come to meet 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 ain't the one that's pushin' the I got off at the 13th floor, when they told me it wasn't one They said it skipped 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 off in this maze with walls made of layers And prayers is the tightest game that you can have The devil's takin' a swing that explain the broken glass But my crystal 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 hittin' licks or slangin' Didn't think I'd be the one to in to abortion Label me murder because my ass is Hot from the Glock that sits under my Yeah, it's real fucked up that my come to get me And it's like dat, yeah, and it's dem