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Call Baba (Skit)
02:00
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The Cure
04:31
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Looking out a window from the inside
Of my head what I had in mind
Is it recess or recession
bit worried, cause I ain't stressing
One side saying we gone hit an incline
One side saying we are in the end time
In the middle of the match where I been fine
I ain't confined, I was left in
If it's out of my control I ain't stressing
Only cutting from the cloth I was dressed in
Well groomed in a room full of best men
Grey suits tryna train me not to question
On average I'm the exception
Run the math when it's anything less than
If the path get blocked even one time
No conspiracy can tell me what it meant then
So what's next then
I'ma keeping it moving I got no choice
Representing for the weak of us with no voice
Rich enough to be protected from who's elected
Black enough to be respected but still messed with
Pulled over in a Buick or a Rolls Royce
5'9" or 6´3" they gone feel threatened
Your fragility is hidden under your weapon
You ain't hard, you just capping 'cuz you so moist
More than one thing tryna kill me (YEAH)
More than one name tryna bill me (YEAH)
Keep my hands clean
Less we're talking 'bout riches
That's the only thing that's filthy (YEAH)
Nothing left in this life left untainted
Up charge for the pure so we cut raw
Here's an app and some people you can complain with
Rest assure
I'm the pro's, I'm the con's
I'm the hope and the harm
I'm relief or belief
Here to leave you in a storm
Throw a raft, throw a leash
What you need is what you form
Round your neck, on your arm
Just keep calm
Rest assure it's the cure
Everybody got a way of coping
Talk about it, have a sip, smoke it
You can tell it's serious when I be down playing
Most scared when I be joking
Looking for a fix and I'm hoping
Both knees on the ground praying
Would I even hear it when spoken
Fear more familiar than faith is
I'ma stop looking for an answer
Search inside how to make it
Media delivering a breakdown
When it break down I can take it
Tell me something that I want to hear
Like hearing you found a new replacement
Babylon lying off top
Ima take it back to the basement
I could lose it all found laying in a gutter
Get it all back that's word to my mother
Comfy in the county where it's really all black
Chilly in the city where it's getting off color
Never made it rain I could save a long rack
On a rainy day I know how to take cover
Let it all flood i'ma swim it on back
I ain't made of iron, I'm just braver than the others
Life don't love you but it love to come test
But if you love life you can't get the wrong number
If you go under learn to take a long breath
Wait it on out, come back with a flex
Looking for a hand all I ever got was steps
Walked on once now I walk on quest
I could walk on water, I could on set
My drip game only thing wet
I'm the pro's, I'm the con's
I'm the hope and the harm
I'm relief or belief
Here to leave you in a storm
Throw a raft, throw a leash
What you need is what you form
Round your neck, on your arm
Just keep calm
Rest assure it's the cure
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3. |
Shoot Your Shot
04:21
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Peace be, un to you, mind frame
You don't speak, sup with you, times change
Front door, always open, come on in
Certain rooms is off limits if you're troubling
I could spot a user like computers
You ain't got no drive, you just wait for me to boot up
I keep hope alive, on my shoulder is my future
I'm coaching a team, got no players left to suit up
Put me in, hall of fame, but off the wall
A flower grew, in the shade, In front of ya'll, a power move
If you want some credit now forget it
Ain't no water under bridges I'll get wet in
I'm repellent shower proof
Keep it clean, until I can't, I take it there
Never been, but confident, I'll make it there
Harmful or your harmless I keep calm until you aren't
We aiming at each other or a comet
I say, two brothers walking through the world unprepared
One lived in fear while the other one dared
Along came a chance neither one of them could share
Are they aiming at each other or the air
Go ahead
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
You don't know somebody 'til somebody's who you not
You don't know somebody 'til somebody's who you not
Peace be, un to you, mind frame
Now you speak, what you need, times change
Penthouse to the lobby
If you think that you're somebody
Who can't hold an open door
Well then history gets copied
If you're poor long enough
Or you're rich for a while
You think it is meant to be
Turn your status to a style
Take a life, take a job, take a job, take a life
I'm just trying to lift my burden and your loss gets it light
Is there a habit or law to break
Be accountable or countering what y'all could say
If get caught, my only thought is who I call to pay
It doesn't matter if it's right, it wasn't wrong today
But by tomorrow under bridges where the water lays
Why bring it up just let it go, we'd get along that way
But if you stuck, I'll build a mote
You run amok, I'll run a shore
You need a boat, I'll budget cut
And lead you all astray
I say, two brothers walking through the world unprepared
One lived in fear while the other one dared
Along came a chance neither one of them could share
Are they aiming at each other or the air
Go ahead
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
Shoot your shot (Pop pop)
You don't know somebody 'til somebody's who you not
You don't know somebody 'til somebody's who you not
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4. |
Call Grandma (Skit)
00:58
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Had to be this way
We ain't vibing no more
Tension in the room couldn't breath, had to leave this space
I'll survive on my own
Only now could I take a look back
With relief I made
To collide or condone
The hard choice when I heard your soft voice
telling me to stay
Had to flee doubt, yeah had to be out
It's a big city not enough for us to split it
I can make living anywhere that I can visit
Didn't know it 'til I pack the rental with a vision
That became reality the more that you were distant
Saw you as nest now I see you as a net
Guess you saw me as a catch now I see you as a prison
Of my own making un-made it now I'm different
Had to turn an is into an isn't
I thought you were fate
I was wrong all along
I thought you were fate
My mistake, had to make
I thought you were fate
In the end, just pretend
I thought you were fate
I don't read my stars
Though I came from the source
Not a plot in a chart to unlock and unleash my cause
Not a game on a board
Read a card, see a flaw now it's law
My belief, my loss
I ain't playing a sport
Made a bet, played a fool, nothing left but to beat my odds
Yeah of course, I'ma breach my flaws
Had to come back from a few things
This is not a new thing
Strapping up the boots with a theory in the shoe string
I think I can move things
With my, mind
Like my hands and my feet, no magic to produce things
Finding it amusing
We are in control
And we think to get the bread we gotta wait to get a role
I ain't with a few things
Writing into stone at the top
And I only broke the mold when it dropped
I thought you were fate
I was wrong all along
I thought you were fate
My mistake, had to make
I thought you were fate
In the end, just pretend
I thought you were fate
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We don't make the mistakes that we use to
They've been replaced by something useful
But I'm still strange
Nothing's changed
We told lies, now we're truthful
Can't go back to what we're use to
But I'm still strange
Nothing has changed
Took you for now granted, only now I understand it (yeah yeah)
Gone in the wind and now the wind just makes me panic (yeah yeah)
I'm all alone in isolation
and the only thing i'm testing is my patience
Thankful I'm alive and waiting (yeah yeah)
Out front your place I hide emotions but can't mask depression
You get me high I'm at your gate
I missed our close connections
Hope I'm not banned from trying again to make it work
I lost your first, make matters worse
I lost my job, I'm non essential maybe
Don't wash your hands of me
We should be closer why are we distant
You hate what we've become but you'll love what we plan to be
I'm focused but still randomly my thoughts will sway
My whole life's an awkward phase
In short I say
We don't make the mistakes that we use to
They've been replaced by something useful
But I'm still strange
Nothing's changed
We told lies, now we're truthful
Can't go back to what we're use to
But I'm still strange
Nothing has changed
I'm at a lost thought I was better off, than other people
I could go jogging all that I want, can't run away from me though
Am I just evil or ignorant
Out of my mind or tenements
Want it back the way it was
The way it was never backed me with benefits
I'm letting go of my ego
And replace it with something that's generous
We should go chase after happiness
Some believe that It should come with a membership
Found out that freedom was limited
Said were equal, not the truth, we pretend it is
Proved to be something lethal
Can't lose you yeah need you
Fighting for you on the front lines, when we get through it we gone reform
Communicating like we need to
Keep it transparent baby, see through
Kept off or we keep on
Got a choice now what should we do
Don't repeat when we're reborn
We don't make the mistakes that we use to
They've been replaced by something useful
But I'm still strange
Nothing's changed
We told lies, now we're truthful
Can't go back to what we're use to
But I'm still strange
Nothing has changed
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7. |
Call Ma (Skit)
01:42
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I get around in any town I'm a man about
Who ever you're a fan of is just my fan account
Not impressed if a restaurant's got a waiting list
Travelled enough to know polenta's just a plate of grits
Who got cars, I got lanes
Who got game, I got cards
who's playing, too advanced
Fronted double your budget, you 'bout to lose a fan
Odd stay underrated but I improve the chance
I never meant to make any man feel insecure
Less I'm the accomplice to what you claim accomplished
Bro honest I'm proud that you never show profit
Much like the identity that you pretend is yours
This ones for the truth seekers
Respect the real beast and not the industry zoo keepers
Don't apologize for cancelling and not getting back to me
I moved right along with what I want to do actually
No Skips, no skips, no skips
Oooooh no skips
Everyday I just song I make
No rewind or forward with me I'm on play
Can't go back, what's forward, don't trip
Oooooh no Skips
No way to jump ahead or stay
My life's theme let it play all day
Forever in a PG state of mind
You think you're doing something
We think it's a waste of time
Nah, we don't follow trends in my ends
If we ain't set it, we ain't standing for it
That's why you got place in line
These 'bamas is corn kings of clown squads
Keep that kinda stalk from around Odd
For real (FOR REAL)
Can't imagine my daughter a lil older
Reminisce and find a pic of me round y'all
Kill (KILL)
Wish I was still homies with my older friends
We'd get along much better now as older men
Less ego, we'd come together for something lethal
The type you peep and you know it's heat with just a preview
So rugged if it ain't low budget we don't love it
Another classic joint but we different people
You ain't answering phone hope this song will reach you
Man holler Kev, I'm tryna pitch another sequel
No Skips, no skips, no skips
Oooooh no skips
Everyday I just song I make
No rewind or forward with me I'm on play
Can't go back, what's forward, don't trip
Oooooh no Skips
No way to jump ahead or stay
My life's theme let it play all day
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9. |
Call Homie (Skit)
01:42
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I done played by the rules
I've been made out a fool
By the few, who make the laws
Don't break them, make a clause
Wanna fish, not just fry
Wanna live, while alive
What's the cost all don't pay
Waive me by by by
Save a pie not a slice for the mice among men
Let me fend for myself, you just lend what I spend
Pay you back not revenge
Just them Dollars extra cents
That's the interest I ain't in
Getting high, high, high
Is a savior, someone who will save you
or at least make you feel like he will 'til your will is enslaved huh
I don't know but I'm starting to feel like I'm caught in a wheel
That's spinning around with no breaks up a hill
Is it fact, is it fake, doesn't matter if it's real
Just as long as I escape
I wanna go to Mars
Live amongst the stars
Be the one that got away
From it all
I wanna go to Mars
Live amongst the stars
Be the one that got away
From it all
Fighting for a seat, on a vessel fully booked
I'll compete, for glance, satisfied with just a look
Trying to get on board, in the front with all the crooks
Show them I am something more than just some number in a book
I'm a king without a castle with some hassle but it's free
Just another brother quick to turn his back on other peeps
If it means I'm seen as higher than them classes under me
If I'm fine that's all that matters
Politics don't party please
Hear me out now, I'm filled up with doubt now
That if I don't sell you out, I'll join the crowd of us
that's living just to bow down
I don't know but I've reached the top of the bottom
And now I'm at that bottom of something still far from the ground
If I fail to understand how to live entitled
Cause survival's all I comprehend
I'll pretend
I wanna go to Mars
Live amongst the stars
Be the one that got away
From it all
I wanna go to Mars
Live amongst the stars
Be the one that got away
From it all
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11. |
Call Manager (Skit)
01:15
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