I sold quarters, just so happens I'm the author of your favorite songs
Every one of these 18 lines is a lyric. Wit is the largest theme (8), ahead of wisdom, struggle and hustle at 4 each. Tom Ford Socks (3) and Crowns for Kings (3) supply the most, and 3 lines are credited to The Plugs I Met. The Tom Ford Socks lines are the heaviest, describing two ways out of the game and a hood that gets its money taken out; the punchlines elsewhere are about lyrical rank and how a hustle became a catalog.
I chose money over fame, how I end up with 'em both?
What's a stage with no mic and no voice of a poet?
What's more important, the flower or the soil that grow it?
They say it’s two ways out the game, bullets melt your flesh
Or catch a sentence and they change you like you Malcolm X
Would you feed a grown man or expect him to hunt?
They take the money out the hood, but never invested in us
I been sellin' dreams to sleepers, nigga
Tell the truth, that's the perfect business
I sat back, a vet, and watched beginners winnin' my belts
Burned my bridges, came back a good swimmer like Phelps
We put an address on the beef like we the post office
I can turn your front door to a drug store
Make any kitchen to a lab
Man, I hear these drug stories and I laugh
Had dreams of retiring and burying the money
Back when I was young with more experience than money
Yo, I put the truth on every page I jotted
See, before I knew an A&R, I was weighin' hard
Back when Nicki Minaj was in a trainin' bra
You know the feeling, young black male, what y'all dealin'?
Take your whole life to get it, it only last you a minute
Money tree, branches break when they not sturdy enough, uh
And I never think I'd make it out the hood
And it don't feel how I thought it would
This ain't my story 'bout rags to riches, more 'bout how I mastered physics (Uh-huh)
Starvin' made me thin, it ain't no mercy in this game we in
Odds stacked against us, had to play to win
Held it down, I ain't lose it (Nah)
Think he told, but can't prove it (Think he told on me)
You hear sounds of the pot scrapin'
Me, I only hear music (Uh)