Pride came before fall. Winter we went on a tour
Now every season is summer and some of you niggas will never get warm
Now every meeting is money an money is time and that shit be passing like Kidd
So it's blow up like the challenger or blow a calendar paying to play on them gigs
Free need diapers (right there) Je got half the rent (right there)
So i'ma need half up front and the rest behind or you can have a seat right there
The fuck we got to talk about?
You ain't met my mama, can't get me no money, wunt there when the
Floor was falling out
Now the flow thru the ceiling and niggas been hearing the vision of course they calling out
Neither name nor number changed nigga just time
And that's another conversation for another rhyme
Less the currency exchange next to a J&Ls, next to a Food and Liquor over on the east side, right there by the lake, otherwise I'm fine
If you aint paid tithes you probably ain't know like yes
Y'all the best, that's all of my time god bless
I was sixteen dropping off checks
I was sixteen dropping off checks
I was sixteen dropping off checks
Pay me what you owe me baby, pay me my respect
I was sixteen dropping off checks
I was sixteen dropping off checks
I was sixteen dropping off checks
Pay me what you owe me baby, pay me my respect
Pride came before fall. Spring was when free was born
J'd down a G in the summer nah none of these weak [edit] can get on
Now every meeting is time and time is money, so why I got more of the latter?
Feeling like Jacob was fighting my faith for so long now none of that petty shit matter
Finding my way been like finding the remote, that's a pretty good quote gotta jot that
Nigga what you need always under yo nose, shit I never really prayed til the day my pop passed
Good weed always helped me cope and good genes always helped me grow
The high road less paved but it's on my way let em crane they neck like a car crashed
And it's hard plastic on fire, concrete, black tar, glass but I'm fine
Tall, black, name all caps and l'm back like bra straps and y'all lack that fire
Make a nigga run for it [edit] look back at it
That's a god damn hook
Make a nigga run for it [edit] look back at it
That's a god damn hook
Make a nigga run for it [edit] look back at it
Thats a gaaadamn hook
credits
from We'ont Know Everything,
released June 19, 2017
(David Giles II, Jehan Giles, Nelson-Mandela Khaltim Nance)
HANDS INTL (ASCAP)
Production by Norvis Junior for SwimmmersEar, LLC. Recorded by David Giles II. Mixed by Zachariah Wise. Mastered by Christopher Butler. Recorded in a Brooklyn Basement, NY.
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