ON DAT FIY
I wake up, blaze. Walk thru a maze.
Caught me a wave. Balance.
Pouring up a chalice
Everybody know I don't need stylist
Ugh I got the stylus, the pen
I come thru with the zen
My mind on another cloud my money on the yen
I be up early in the morning for the paper
I be up early in the morning for the paper
I be up early in the morning for the paper
I be up early in the morning for the paper
I be up early in the morning for the paper
Stretch and let a yawn out when I wake up
Water on the green from a dollar and a dream
Step out on my lawn hello to my neighbors
Early in the morning for the rent
Blow it down money well spent
Get me out the do, help me let it all go
Free my mind hit the clouds then I vent
Early in the morning for the lick
Deep off in the dungeon where I went
Charging for the code, but the bars for the low
Running specials at the moment don't slip
Early in the morning in the Stuy
Five on every corner I know why
Gotta go to work and that [expletive] drive me berserk
So I know they knowing I be on that fiy
OG told me never tell no lie, yet I'm at the table, listening to fables.
Never sold cane. Always been able. Grew up on that Aesop. [expletive] be changing asap.
[expletive] brought the fade back. Beckies bringing braids back? Hmn... how they gon explain that?
I just keep it real, they don't really want that. I be up early in the morning for the
HOL UP
[Dave Giles II]
How you gon grow sumn with no core, grind sumn with no board, build sumn with no bricks?
How you gon see sumn with no shore, win sumn with no war, start sumn with no bench?
How you gon stay afloat with no oar, open sumn with no doors, stand out with no niche?
How you gon live right with no laws, live life with no cause, smarten up and grow rich
[Nelson Bandela]
Ima get paid, ima make it on, ima change the game, ima put on for my [expletive] I ain't playin, im just saying what they told me. Ima tell it how they told me
Ima make waves, ima run the road, ima switch lanes, ima stunt on all these [expletive] and these lames, I'm just saying what they told me. Ima tell it how they told me
[Dave Giles II]
No room for no weak mogs on my team god hold up
Activated my [expletive] round thirteen dawg hold up
Gave up on that skit round oh three like hold up
Came back with a whole gah damn team dawg hold up
Played stages these [expletive] can't dream god hold up
Paid dues these huff blogs ain't seen dawg hold up
Made news from LA to NYC dawg hold up
But page views ain't paid out much green wait hold up
Pay pub, press merch, mix and buy beats [expletive] fo whut?
You ain't got no plan to make back fees boi slow up
Pay to play the game same way that you seen mogs blow up
But everything ain't the way it say and that way it stay sown up
Whole time yo day to day ain't the same as there's so bruh
Do this [expletive] on yo own, define what's on and then show up
Work it off like a zone, re-up and indulge only so much
Invest in yo squad, publishing, law, nigga own up
No room for no weak mogs on my team god hold up
Turnt up my [expletive] at like twenty three dawg hold up
Four years, six tapes then came Free like hold up
Came back with that plan, Sam and OG dawg hold up
BLACK FACEBOOK
[DAVE.]
Black people gossip could fill up a blog and call it bossip
Can't knock the profit but what that petty put in yo pockets
no check from capital one but they wan know what's in yo wallet
while paying for paper plus interest on they monthly installments
Meanwhile the prisons pay for interscope
Jordan make prisons and shoes that put [expletive] in em that price so appalling
They jumping mogs to score em from lines up in a store ten in the
morning to mourning them empty bottles its over for that balling baby
Who to blame? I can't call it
Like 976, is it the Five or is it Spaulding
Or is it my [expletive] when he making them poor decisions
For the ones he can't take back I just pray that The Lord forgive him
Daddy told me that way back: God the only thing that is greater
Live that truth til they commit yo obituary to papers
Days are longer for the youth, take yo time and get it right
Exercise all yo ambitions and live yo [expletive] life
Pay yo tithes and pay attention put it on that mog [expletive]
I ain't perfect, I been smoking way before jamaal tinsley
I been working, I been working, while they playing on yo phone
Less it add up on the statement, I leave well enough alone
I ain't taking no vacations, I predict the fall of Rome
Tryna elevate my station, replicate and send it home
Inspiration for my [expletive], I just want my people Free
Put that on my daughter name in case i never live to see it
[Norvis Jr]
Tryna maintain got a [expletive] doin so so much...
When it all fall down
I can guarantee that God gon get it fore the sun show up...
When it go back down
Put my baby girl to sleep, smoke sumn and I'm on my way...
And tomorrow ima get it right or learn sumn from it
One hundred, to The Lord i pray...
2x
SAY GRACE
Sun shined when my eyes opened I'm good %|\/\/\/\/\|>
You wake up. They taxing. Fares rising on transit.
Posted up on that sofa bruh. I'm knowin way way back when
you showed up on they campus you thought it be a lil different if
you aced all of they classes. That's square shit thats action.
difference in that canvas. Stakes same y'all both flamed
if y'all don't pay them taxes. what they don't say in them transcripts:
[expletive] is in fashion, make factions, enforce fines
and then [expletive] you in the fine print for yo fractions in they off time.
Mogs kill and go to work the next day and [expletive].
Keep that in mind when I'm deciding who I get paper with.
He not designed to push no papers, I can't play em
Everybody wanna ball but only few a make the papers
Hella mogs be standing tall but only few a skyscrapers
And I seen a tower fall—two-uhm, it's crazy
Where i grew up. And these grown ups on that crazy [expletive].
Should keep that in mind when you deciding who you lay up with
There could come a time when they deciding who gon babysit
Just keep that in mind when you deciding who you lay up with
Therapy and time'll do you fine it ain't no shame in that
Activate yo grind and in due time you'll find yo way in that
Everything fine
Sun shined when my eyes opened I'm good %|\/\/\/\/\|>
Sun shined when my eyes opened I'm good. Awaken by
nickel and dimers wit reggie, the pedigree off in my hood, so I keep
turnips by the volume young Petty Roosevelt they know I'm loud.
But my OG hard of hearing so I can not turn it down
Not her neither mane that's file(foul), I don't drop box but I stay off in the clouds
On it, float like ain't no ground. Tell you bout it how I show you. They know how I get down
Ain't no minute like the moment that we living in right now
Seen a numba [expletive] clone it so I know they got no style or we shining
Barry O. ambition I don't even need a lining
Barrio to Bedford Stuy don't even a guide
Bet I always kept it g whatever city I reside in
MAN
SAME DIFFERENCE
Never knew i see the day I say I'm never coming home
Never knew id see eighteen years let alone celebrate it while I'm living on my own
When I made it figure [expletive] be married by twenty one twenty five with kids hella grown
I was wrong stead my unc od'd and my OG died and my cuz got hit by the Stones.
Kings shot a [expletive] car up hit a couple queens tore they heart up I was hard up for a lil'tention til I got it.
Got it then I got up out the [expletive] jam like Charles vs Shaq when he played for the rockets.
Product turn to profit off the [expletive] fans got me holding hella cards in my hand like a wallet
Wearing Wally's and a iPod playing Chris Wallace in the everyday struggle mo money mo prollems
Yeah they catching [expletive] slipping on the bus stop.
Ain't no mo Olympics so the buck stop.
Values on the east side dip, time to flip
Til the hood turn white than a truck stop.
Redline mogs now the rent high.
Making headlines tryna make the deadline.
So they going hella hard no money mo probms
No iPhone still gon FaceTime.
Now they catching mogs slipping with them phones out
ten percent to pay them student loans down
but tuition stay high den the js by the time
[expletive] paid you'll be laying in a hole now
Grind errr night tryna get the bread right
Pushing redline tryna meet them deadlines
Got em goin so hard, no money mo probms
No sleep have ya [expletive] up the bread now
Now the people with the paper print the paper.
You a sharecropper with a chopper or a caper ain't no different than
Them mogs stripping copper out the casings
They just work a lil hard than that dollar gon take em.
Only probm if we fair it up, everybody hair cut
Knowing all I wanted was a [expletive] taper.
Fore I catch a fade from the Feds I'll be in the shade
Growing [expletive] on my [expletive] acres baby
Call it Old Gold