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Ty J. Summers
Ty J. Summers
Songwriter
Marquis Smith
Marquis Smith
Songwriter
Gilbert Nsubuga
Gilbert Nsubuga
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
T Clipse
T Clipse
Producer
Loneninjah
Loneninjah
Producer

Lyrics

When it's cold as the city gets Trynna make it home when the winter hits I rose from the lineage we jumped from the boats 'Cause we know it gets hideous And some living penny-less Get a penny for thoughts I can lend you mine A billion dollars ain't enough I need plenty time Petty wives got a nigga looking Pennywise And since we talking time I'm ahead of mine How you plan on going up if you afraid to fly? Can he rap like me can she rap like me? Can they snap on beats? ain't a head in mind I'm ahead of my time and ahead of myself Killing every line every time man in stealth With the rhymes know they felt all the cries I had dealt Days in the rain paid in timing and wealth Pain always rose better days never came The fakers they change and the real stayed the same Stayed in my lane in man my baggage to claim Im a savage for cabbage I can't let em have it I'm spazzin' if they throwing flack on my name Might as well throw they pack in the grave I battled the pain and hustled and haggled for change I came up was mad and insane I blast off like back of the plane Im spitting what Reagan made back in the days No back and fourth if you be capping for fame I ain't claimin' a sign or a color to bang They was in for the fame I was never for clout All the fakes come about when the bitch nigga snakes come about Can't stand the complacence around But I move with intelligence If the top is the spot then I won't stop 'til I'm getting in Now the cops spinning blocks for my melanin Taught me to see through the optics in different lens Taught me that the opps can be dressed as friends She thought we'd be better off just as friends But that energy got shifted cuz of differences And those differences just amplified our distances Had me feeling like a motherfuckin' kid again Had me down like Ritalin But I'm still up to work when it's time to go and get a check And I could barely stand When I'm working on beats that's the only time I sit again Sentences turn you to a second class citizen So think about the problems that you get before you get in it It's Clipse from The Den spit this message 'til I represent I just want my mother to be proud of me, my brother to be proud of me My uncle be surprised, and have my father not look down on me Every single day got these hardships they surrounding me I'm just trynna shoot for the stars shit they be doubting me (Why?) And I'm still shouting free niggas that looked out for me M.L.K. was cool but I'm starting to see what Malcolm see It's like the fuckin' government been practicing some alchemy The way they take my sisters and my brothers out so countlessly 1 shot 2 shot 3 then he down to sleep 5 shot 6 shot he bleeding flooding out the street 7 to brain then 8 kills the pain 1 more to the side now his heart ain't even pounding G Since we talking numbers fuck 12 'til I'm half of that Underneath the earth I rode the hearse to my aftermath If we all cursed then my people cursed again after that These bullets don't hurt enough I think I need a battle axe Took my time away from me They took my pride away from me I was innocent but still it wasn't safe for me (If you're going to a club, and you see the police there when you pull up, And the lights flashing what are you gonna do? Probably turn around and go home right?) I got scars that will never go away from me I wrote that song and now my pain is deeper than their hate for me I don't wanna get tackled but if I take a knee Then they gon' blow me out and they don't even got a cake for me Pigs were sniffing out a problem when there wasn't one in sight Lemme take a second and take you back to the other night I was chiefin' in the V but that wasn't the problem I was parked illegally and someone must've called em Passenger was getting crazy talkin' bout i know my rights I would've done the same but the difference is I wasn't white Then they smelt the tree and tried to give ya boy a couple strikes Checked me on some bullshit but I got to see another night A couple months passed so this incident was recently Lemme start by putting a middle finger to EPD He asked what I was doing I told the truth acted decently I tried to go home but they stopped insisted to speak with me Asked me stupid questions so I gave em stupid answers back I swear he told his partner give em trouble 'cause this mans is black They didn't have a warrant I didn't commit a crime So I'm asking can I go cuz y'all just wasting my time Now they start getting hostile, cop 1 checks the whip Cop 2 sits me down and he's talking it's irrelevant And he knows they wrong I can see it in his face too But facing one is hard enough so how am I gon' face two Violated privacy started sending threats and shit A couple days pass and I can't even get some rest and this Just goes to show that sometimes ignorance is bliss And sometimes Intelligence can be yo detriment Ain't a thing that can break me Ain't nobody gonna break me now Nothings ever gonna break me No ones ever gonna break me down Ain't a thing that can break me Ain't nobody gonna break me now Nothings ever gonna break me No ones ever gonna break me down
Writer(s): Fred Jerkins Iii, Rodney Jerkins, Christopher Wallace, Michael Jackson, Nora Payne, Robert Smith, Jane Eugene, Steve Nichols, Carl Mcintosh, Lashawn Ameen Daniels Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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