MICHAEL Album Lyrics by Killer Mike

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DOWN BY LAW

I just think timin' is everything
Like nigga, this it, this, this one right here
That ain't easy
Stay motivated, stay inspired
I owe it to myself, stay down on it
And it ain't been hard throughout the journey
It's been a journey
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh
Hey-ayy-ah

Hello, hello, my niggas
Hello and hello, my niggas
Please keep it mellow, my niggas
Stop sippin' yellow, my nigga
You itchin' and twitchin', and glitchin', my nigga
Listen, my nigga (shh)
Snakes in your circle and them bitches hissin', my nigga
My nigga don't listen
One thing I hate 'bout my nigga
So I just pray 'bout my nigga
Nigga, it's hard
Niggas done gave up on God
Maybe God gave up on us
Maybe She angry we worshippin' all these false idols
So devils just preyin' on us
This for the junkie, the fiend and the loser
Prayin' to God in the back of a cruiser
I pray that prison can cure your addiction
And devil's affliction don't hurt you no more
Needin' no reason, but I'll let you know
I was so young when I stood at that store
That I did not know that the money you paid me
Was meant for your babies, and now they just poor
It was just business, my nigga
I am not vicious, my nigga
I had no vision, my nigga
I wanted Gucci and Fendi, my nigga
Gucci, Givenchy, my nigga
But none of them crackers ain't love us, my nigga
All of them crackers said f*ck us, my nigga
Mad 'cause they women in love with the god
They f*ck us and suck us, and love us, my nigga
Back to the trap, back to the Dickies and buffs
Lookin' like I drive a truck
F*ckin' my bitch? Shit, better be rich
She buy a new bag of weed
Goddamnit, I don't understand it
But if she's an addict, this Gucci purse gon' get her geeked
Thick with an ass
She is a Betty Shabazz
Pretty as Coretta Scott
All that I got, she got the face of a model
She got the heart of Asada
She from the gutter, my nigga
Wife and a mother, my nigga
Winnie Mandela, my nigga
Free Leonard Pelletier, my nigga, Obama
Please free our mama, my nigga
Asada, my nigga
Please free Mutulu, my nigga
Heart of a Zulu, my nigga
Free Larry Hoover, my nigga
Free Jeff Fort, my nigga
F*ck all the courts, my nigga
Movin' like Malcolm and Martin the King
Lift Every Voice is the song that I sing
Born in the womb of a beautiful teen
I am a beautiful, wonderful thing
I am a king, my woman's a queen
Master Fard, say that we are the God
I studied hard like John Henrik Clarke
Even of my days of whippin' it hard
I'll tell the devil that Black man is God
Keepin' it player, just playin' my part
Lean on my Demon and post in teh park
Jewelry all gleamin' like Rakim Allah
My Eric B. is my nine in the car
You try to G me, get nine in your jaw
Bless all the felons that handled the raw
F*ck all the tellers that ran to the law (Hey)
Watch out for the hitters with sticks in the car
My name is Michael, I'm down by law

Won't You help us so, Holy Father? (Holy Father)
And I miss your wisdom mother ( I miss your wisdom moma)
If nobody's gonna live forever, and neither am I
Two shots for the city that raised me (Atlanta, Georgia)
Thanks for the pain that you gave me (so thankful for ya)
Because without it, no one would've known that I was even alive
I'm down
This shit is so Atlanta
Down by law

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SHED TEARS

If you weren't so eager to please the white man
And send the grading curve up
There'd be three times as many of us here now
What kind of Tom are you, anyway?
Same as you, I guess
Except that I don't try to have it both ways
Are you calling me a Tom, man?
Well, none of us were picked for our militancy now, were we?
Now why don't you go away and let me alone?
Why don't you join the team, man?
Team? Man, I'm not playing any games
Come here now, come (nah, wait a minute man)
Nah, wait a minute, this fool is crazy, man

Ayy, brother, brother and any men born to mothers
Just know that your days are numbered
nd life might be filled with troubles
Your troubles may come in doubles
In form of your former lovers
They use your kids for revenge
'Cause you dug her, but never loved her
Never loved her, but drug her
Drug her and made her suffer
Left her a single mother
No malice since I was younger
Barely filled with that hunger
Barely could help my mama
How could I be a father?
Daily, keep gettin' harder
Have mercy
Every week, somethin' hittin' me adversely
I remember dropping my babies off at the church nursery
I remember sittin' hurt all alone in the church service
Asking God to reveal me a plan and a higher purpose
Was a boy, now I'm grown, immaturity gone
Lying, scheming, and dreaming in queue is gettin' your own
Ask anybody that know me, I suffered slowly for years
And now I'm like Kobe grippin' that trophy closely and I shed tears

I'm right here waiting to give you rest for your soul
When your soul needs peace, come unto me, I'll give you rest
Today is the day you find rest (rest for your soul)
Trust in me, I will give you rest
Rest, rest
Rest for your soul

Yeah, ayy
Love nothing, we ain't just come from it, we cut from it
Troubled youngin, unload firearms, then think nothing of it
Product of my environment, I am nothing but it
We prepare ourself for the penitentiary, it come with thuggin'
Ayy, mama told me it get lonely in that cell
But she ain't tell me it'll break you, sis, I thank you for your mail
Poppin' pills 'til I can't feel, somebody save me from myself
Giveaways is bool and all, let's do some s- that'll really help
'Member granny grabbed the belt and went berserk about us smokin'
Get teary-eyed about them moments, they was golden
Yeah, rainy days approaching, we was sheltered, do they help her?
Wish I could hit your cellular, without you here, I'm helpless

I'll give you rest, rest for, rest for (rest for your soul)
I'm standin' here waitin'
Come unto me, I'll give you rest
Don't be afraid to rest (rest for your soul)

I shed tears every morning in the bathroom mirror
Face to face with fate, had to face my fears
It was me, I'm the reason that I fell
That was hell, locked in self-guilt like jail
Lord, I cried, almost died, empty inside
The devil whispers in your ear, you contemplate suicide
I tell you I know, promise, honest, been there before
And it's pride before the fall, it's how it usually go
Lookin' at me, I was struttin', proud as can be
Couldn't tell me nothin', I was hushin' people, peak of the G
I heard my ancestor voices, now they speakin' through me
Sometime my faith get fully shaken, I get weak as can be
Pray and repent, gather my strength, fast like it's lent
The devil sent the storm to break me, but I didn't buy a Bent'
Won't buy a bin, I'll suffer, then will do it again
Made it to the mountaintop straight from the valley of sin

I've been delivered some pain
When you're feeling tired
I guess it comes with the game
When you're feeling broken (Rest for your soul)
For those who suffered for years
When you're feeling burdened
Th-th-that's why I shed tears
I will give you rest
I've had to live with some pain
Rest, come unto me
I guess it come with the game
I'll give you (rest for your soul)
For those who suffered for years
I'm your refuge, any day you can find me
Th-th-that's why I shed tears
Oh, rest (rest for your soul)
For your soul, for your soul (come unto me, I'll give you rest)
Rest, rest, rest for your soul
I'll give you rest, rest for your soul

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RUN

God don't like ugly, I ain't one to judge (judge)
Whole, whole lot of gold Cubans weigh a ton (ton)
Say I kept it solid when it's all said and done (all said and done)

All I know is keep goin', run, nigga, run (run)
Mama told me, "Never fold, run, nigga, run" (run)
Like Jenny told Forrest Gump, "Run, nigga, run" (run)
The race for freedom ain't won, run, nigga, run

Had to make it out the red clay, run, nigga, run
The west side of Atlanta, yeah, that where I'm from (Flatland)
Outside, I was hands on like a glove (Batman)
Movin' like my nigga N.O.R.E., eatin' on the run (run)
Still an underground king and that's word to Bun (Bun)
Locked in like Rice Street without a bond (bond)
I was playin' with the powder way before Lebron (Lebron)
My wife was a born red head, but now she a blonde (a blonde)
Politicians lie and your favorite rapper is a con (con)
Don't check for me without a check for me, that's a hund' (Louis)
All the L's I wear is followed by Vuitton (Louis)
Get money and the power, teach 'em while they're young
Hmm, blessed to make it out the slums, run, nigga, run (run)

All I know is keep goin', run, nigga, run (run)
Mama told me, "Never fold, run, nigga, run" (run)
Like Jenny told Forrest Gump, "Run, nigga, run" (run)
The race for freedom ain't won, run, nigga, run

This for the ones that never won (won)
Hurt feelin' goin' numb (numb)
Beat the odd like a drum (drum)
Run, run, nigga, run (run, take off)
Run, run, nigga, run (run, take off)
Run, run, nigga, run

I put some brand new Margiela on my bitch
Thinkin' the same, but it ain't bankin' the same
I put some brand new Margiela on my bitch
Thinkin' the same, but it ain't bankin' the same
I put a brand new fluoresce on her wrist
I bought that bitch a new Patek plain jane
This a bigger boat, we ain't sinkin' the same
This a PJ, we are not on the same plane
Yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, goddamn)
Yellow diamonds like the sun (yeah)
And I keep it one of one (yeah)
Run (take off)
Trappin' out, I'm mama's son
Now a nigga on the run
Now a nigga shootin' fun
Oh-oh (ooh-oh)
I keep this shit on a tightrope
On a PJ with no night clothes (night clothes)
We just had f*cked, why it's tight though? (Why?)
Why is it tight?
I signed the check like a typo (yeah)
Rescue the trenches, all of the kiddies
We gon' escape on a yacht boat (yeah)
We gainin' weight like Big Pun, run, nigga, run
Installin' this shit in my son, run, nigga, run
Green interior, lawn, run, nigga, run
Dr. Marten boots when I come, run, nigga, run

All I know is keep goin', run, nigga, run (run)
Mama told me, "Never fold, run, nigga, run" (run)
Like Jenny told Forrest Gump, "Run, nigga, run" (run)
The race for freedom ain't won, run, nigga, run

This for the ones that never won
Hurt feelin' goin' numb (numb)
Beat the odd like a drum (drum)
Run, run, nigga, run (run, take off)
Run, run, nigga, run (run, take off)
Run, run, nigga, run

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NRICH

Niggas do a lot of shootin', niggas do a lot of shootin'
Niggas shoot off at the mouth
Niggas shoot boo, niggas shoot craps
Niggas come around the corners and shoot down the street
Niggas shoot shoot sharp glances at white women
Nigga shoot dope into their arm
Niggas shoot guns and rifles on New Years Eve
A new year that is coming in

Rollin' with my nigga, rich niggas, these is my nigga roles
Jesus was a nigga, my nigga killed him, my nigga rose
I know you love me runnin' the jewels, but these my nigga flows
Love 'em like that dumb spit pimp love that nigga hoe
And that's word to Michael in Fresh, the realest niggas know
That's the movies niggas should watch, f*ck Scarface and Blow
You still talkin' New Jack City, that's why you niggas poor
I open Greenwood and show niggas that we is more
Than stickin' green under the beams in momma's wooden floor
And I know some secrets that negro leaders'll never know
I was in kahoots with the spooks that sat by master's door
When the revolution let loose, they couldn't master stove
Eight in the eighties as babies, we sold master's dope
Labeled us a nuisance, they used the cords like noose and rope
Us poor lil' nigga babies, we gave ourselves to slavery
Nigga rich, we made it, we should be celebrated

Oh, run up them billions
Oh, then build a village
Oh, then make your own rules
F*ck what they told you
Don't let them own you
Black and bright, Black as night, Black and brilliant
Walk by faith, not by sight, stand resilient
Truth always comes to light, time reveals it
Time reveals it

Black like my name, nigga shit what I know
I don't make friends, hop out and then I go
I don't pick sides, only my niggas and they niggas
We gon' turn the streets from projects into pillars
Pray all of my niggas, organized and strategized
Enemies are lurkin' 'round the way like camouflage
I'ma be a nigga, get a picture 'fore I die
This is not a film, this is real, realize
Forty-three for combat, hit 'em right in they contact
All my niggas abstract, and we tight like we compact
Niggas car jack, 'cause they jampacked and sidetracked
Came through our hoods, they ransacked, we pushed back

Black like my skin, whoa, Black like a Benz, whoa
Black like my friends who see black in the end, whoa
Don't parlay with opps, but I can if you kinfolk
Got it like a syndrome, nothing rich as my skin tone

Yeah
Know we really should be celebrated
But like everything else, we gotta fight for it, so
I'ma put on the gloves

Let me state it, I real-estated when others hated
Born at Grady, a bastard baby to single lady
I beat the odds, without God, I probably wouldn't have made it
It's underwhelmin' to be so overly underrated
But still they witnessin' all the riches of nigga richness
Singin' and dancin' essentially just a nigga business
But nigga business can turn niggas on to bigger business
They used to own us, but now we own us, that's independence
My phone is figures, I talked to Randell about bigger figures
I told him "I want a hundred mill'" he said "Think bigger"
F*ck livin' average, I had to go savage to get lavish
I went from wearin' them leanin', that matches I'm embarrassed
And now I move through the Louvre smooth when I'm in Paris
My jewelry flashy, my shirt says garage, I'm drippin' ashes
On finest fabrics while in the back of a German carriage
Same birth date as Hitler, but f*ck him, I'm a nigga

Black like my skin, whoa, Black like a Benz, whoa
Black like my friends who see black in the end, whoa
Don't parlay with opps, but I can if you kinfolk
Got it like a syndrome, nothing rich as my skin tone

Oh, run up them billions
Oh, then build a village
Oh, then make your own rules
F*ck what they told you
Don't let them own you
Black and bright, Black as night, Black and brilliant
Walk by faith, not by sight, stand resilient
Truth always comes to light, time reveals it
Time reveals it
Woo, ooh, Lord
Say, Lord
I said let it be

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TALK'N THAT SHIT!

I just need someone to help me stay awake
Because evidently Killer Mike has gone to sleep
(All the player haters who be talkin' that shit
Them motherf*ckin' player haters who be talkin' that shit)
(DJ Paul)
(CY you did it, you heard?)

Niggas talk to me about that woke ass shit
Same niggas walkin' on some broke ass shit
You see yo' words ain't worth no money I ain't spoke back, bitch
All of you niggas hang together on some Brokeback shit
Really y'all niggas some hoes on some hoe ass shit
Look at me and take a picture on some Kodak shit
What you see is a G and you envy that shit
I can see it in yo' eyes like a envious bitch
I'm in rooms with politicians talkin' business and shit
Hear you come with your opinion, ain't solicit that shit (DJ Paul)
Lola hit up DJ Paul went to Memphis and shit
Pause
Rest in peace to Lord Infamous, bitch
I'm so underground I move like Pimp C in this bitch
I bob and weave and bust on beats like Bun B in this bitch
I'm feelin' like I'm Tony Draper, ballin' G in this bitch
On fire like hot boy Juvi, four hundred degrees in this bitch
All that chatter that you chatter 'bout my manner just don't matter
I don't, I don't forth and backer
I clack-clacka ratta-tatta
Could be blacker could be cracka
It's what ever, that's whenever
Sprinkle salt, I spray pepper
You play bad, I go evil
I know folk, I know people
I'm the shit, I go fecal
You a leach, I'm a leader
Humble down we ain't equal
Kill yo' masters, slap yo' sifu
I'm rich rollin', true blue Regal
I keep a stick don't take shit and that .223 is lethal

(DJ Paul)
(CY)
Let's go
(That- that f*cker talk alotta shit
But shit don't impress me
That- that f*cker talk alotta shit)

Black Boulé hate me
I'm too cool, AC
I don't give a f*ck if weed gettin' legal if none of my niggas ain't free
Ayy, I don't give a f*ck who the president is if the president ain't for me
You ain't never met a nigga like me
I'm a bad nigga, I'm Stagger Lee
I'm a Morehouse man, Spike Lee
Dope man with a plan, Fat Steve
I'll kill 'em, I'm Jose Williams
Unbought, unbossed, I'm chillin'
Tryna get it out the mud off the muscle
Tryna get it like the late Herman Russel
I'm yearnin' like Alonzo Herndon
I'm the new q-ball, I'm earnin'
First rule you better understand
You dealin' with a real black man
If I said it I meant, it I meant it like I said it
'Cause I said what I said understand
So stay in yo place lil' man
Commentin' on the TV channel
I guarantee you never seen a nigga like me
'Cause they only make these in Atlanta

(That f*cker talk alotta shit
But shit don't impress me
That- that f*cker talk alotta shit
(But shit don't impress me)

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SLUMMER

Stay high and holy
Ain't into watches, don't mind the Rollie
I ain't a pastor, you bastards, I keep a black pistol-y
Chubby young jit talk slick, rollin' like Roly Poly
At fifteen, my girlfriend was thick and she would slowly blow me
I would beat it down when she come around
She was down, she would help me sack all my nicks and dimes
She was fine, I was in my feelings, I was out my mind
It's that, it's that, it's the teenage love, making love, no glove
It's that, it's that, it's the abortion money, gotta get it up
It's that, it's that, I still feel like we still killed our baby girl
It's that, it's that, it get worser, had a baby by a thug
It's that, finally understand why women go to church and hum
You can hit 'em with a hurt so deep they heart can't come back from
Smile and make each other cum but could not overcome the slum
I remember the last time that we made love on the mama's sofa
Told me she was pregnant by this older nigga and it's over

A couple summers and our teenage love had turned to somethin' slummer
I can't love her like I used to, she somebody's baby mama
But she call me to come over when she go to see her mama
And we make love and she talk about her stress and all her drama
As the project light would shine through the project window blinds
I would slowly stroke her body, I would try to pick her mind
I asked her, "What you gonna be?"
And she said, "Michael, I'm gonna be fine"
Told me with my brilliant mind
"You gon' be better than fine"
Told me I had places to travel
And she really wasn't into flyin'
Told me I was more than a dope boy
Don't follow the deaf, dumb and blind
Done seen her a couple of times
And told her, "Ayy, baby, I owe you"
She hugged me, held on me tight
"You did it Micheal, I told you"

See, she was such a fine young thang (Such a fine young thang)
But that ain't my side of things (Yeah)
Think I might touch the danger for the love
She my summer love
She my summer love (ah)
Slummer love (ooh)
Slummer love (ooh)

So many promises, promises, promises
So many promises, promises, promises (ayy, ayy, ayy)

Still hear the voices
Still hear your voice, yeah

I remember, you called and said, "Michael I am pregnant"
I responded, "Baby girl, a baby girl might be a blessing"
And I ain't Usher, baby, but this here is my confession
I must own it, I didn't want it, even now I know I'm flexin'
'Cause all that raw dog sex and I knew I would get you pregnant
And all this teenage love is really just about posessin'
They call it adolescence 'cause we learnin' adult lessons
And I ain't grown because I rolled some stones and carry weapons
I was rubbin' on your tummy when your mommy asked for money
Told me, "Your procedure's Monday and she gon' need like four hunnid"
And had I known your mother wasn't gon' never let you keep it
I wouldn't have told my partners, would've kept that news a secret (secret)
Boy, if you lived in the ghetto, in the hood
And you seen some of these people that was getting pregnant
You would realize like they can't afford to get pregnant
They don't need to be pregnant
This girl could go to school, this girl is smart

Her parents ain't paying for it
She actually gon' get a scholarship
But she ain't gon' tell 'em that she been f*ckin'

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SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS

Standing in the rain
Washing off my sins
The streets ain't the same
They spin one time, they'll spin again
Go make love to an angel
While the devil in my head

Communication coming in
Too much that I can't communicate with all of them
I do wish I had scientist or engineer friends, let's go
Get out here, petrol is cheaper than it's ever been
And then, who's to say when all will end?
All I know is when the portrait painted, better have your portion of the rent
A dollar more and you will get upgraded
When you've think you've made it, you are then
Just tolerated, overrated, hope I'm eighty when I get my second wind
Small potatoes all I ate before potato chips would cut my corner lips
Operator, operator, I will pray that you connect me to a sip
Of sangria, Zambia, camera cameo hand me a handful of hips
A stamina stampede of happily happenings dabbling into obli-
-Vion, neon, be on the ambiance beyond as you promised that you would live
Do summers ever forget, pajamas feel like a kid
Cucumber will make her drip, do jump on it, hit a split
Hookahs don't really do shit, Duke Ellington in this bitch
Rebelling is like an itch, ooh

I'ma live, I'ma live forever

Yeah, diamonds shaped like a teardrop, I got the streets in a headlock
Fly just like a skydiver, spirit, I can get manslaughter
Suicide doors on the Range Rover, depend on the time I was laying up
I could've been wearing a animal, pull up and get at you in a Lambo
When it gets ugly, take a gamble, tryna avoid cameras (Take a gamble)
Breaking my heart trying to avoid cameras
I keep shit loaded like a bando (loaded like a bando)
Learned how to turn a trap house to a rancho
Watch me watch the world take my pain and balance it
It's better to be a outcast in a world of envious
White socks, FILA flip flops
Chanel vintage 'til infinity

I'ma live, I'ma live fore-

Music, computers, and robbers and looters
And looters with shooters and shooters with rugers
And shooters with rugers, CDs with my tooters
And my tutors taught me a terrible miracle
You can lie, cheat and still kill in America
Be celebrated like Captain America
F*ck it, I'm with it, let's get it
This nigga and niggress and Bentley valeting in Lenox
Man, I'm a villain, we chilling
So I'm never chilling, I gotta make millions
I use to be dope with the dealing, but that got a ceiling
And we know the usual ending
Niggas get rich and go bitch and go fail and go snitch
And then f*ck up they family and friends
Me, I go to Germany, earn me a couple of million
Return with a couple of Benzes
Or go to Brazil and just kick it and chill 'til I'm over the hill
And still f*cking on women
The world got no mercy so I had to show 'em
Like Percy, with me, it just can't be no limit

A hunnid percentage authentic, see, I got no gimmicks so I ain't protecting no image
My style original, pivotal, it's going digital, niggas you like is a mimic
I am a menace that's moving on vengeance, I promise my opp that my anger is endless
It ain't enough that I took out my opp on his block, we burnt down his whole f*cking village
Did it with smile, not a grimace, it was a pleasure to see that this f*ck nigga finished
You get offended, then f*ck it, my nigga, I'm with it, I'm hitting, let's get this shit in it
Back of the club, the immaculate thug with bottles of bub and some asses to rub
Look at me, bitch, look at me, look at me, bitch, look at the crook in me, bitch
Look at me hit you with crooked D, now, I got you walking crookedly, they should be booking me
They should be booking me, know that they won't, I am Theolonius Monk in a donk
Kicking that jazz, collecting my bag, I'm talking milli, ain't talking Vanilli
Had to get that hating nigga from near me, I do not move like a regular Joe
I am not moved by no regular ho, I do not wish for no regular life
I did not marry a regular wife, you think that I'm losing, you smoking a pipe

I'ma live, I'ma live forever
They don't make 'em like this
I'ma live, I'ma live forever
Flossing some security

Standing in the rain
Washing off my sins
The streets ain't the same
They spin one time, they'll spin again
I'ma live, I'ma live forever
Go make love to an angel
I'ma live, I'ma live forever
While the devil in my head

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TWO DAYS

I'm just sayin', I make this in two days

It is evident, I do better when
I feel like the world against me and think I should never win
Can I stop and pocket profit every time I push a pin?
But I do not push a pin, f*ck a pin and the pen
That imprisoned all my kin and my partners, and my friends
F*ck the politicians that sponsored the prisons that they in
I got partners comin' home from rockin' twenty in the pen
Tryna make amends with baby mamas, get to know they kids
And they cannot sell no marijuana, law won't let 'em in
Man, them crackers let a nigga out, but will not let 'us in (in)
It is evident, I do better when
I feel like the world against me and think I should never win
Can I stop and pocket profit every time I push a pin?
But I do not push a pin, f*ck a pin and the pen
That imprisoned all my kin and my partners, and my friends
F*ck the politicians that sponsored the prisons that they in

That recruit the pastor, former, current and ex-president
You can quote it like I wrote it, signature by Michael, win
Swear to God that I go hard and that's as hard as MC Ren
I don't need a reverend, I will not show reverence
Auntie say I'm arrogant, I say, "I'm intelligent"
If God truly know my heart, then why would I bow to men?
Now, I only go to churches where they welcome worthless men
Who had to get it out the mud and rise up out the sediment?
Catch me early like Sunday school and as clean as my Sunday suit
Pastor play you for fool (Hey), me, I just keep it cool
You tell me, "Trappin' dirty," ash on my dirty money
Talkin', wash away my sins, like Jesus opened the laundry (Hey, hoo)

I feel like the world against me and think I should never win (I should never win)
But I do not push a pin, f*ck a pin and the pen
They imprisoned all my kin and my partners, and my friends
F*ck the politicians, that's for the prisons that they in

Like everybody set, right?
It's like, I wanna be like this
And I don't know how they get like this, but I wanna be like this
I'm thinkin' you got a job
You got parents who you shoot a lil' somethin'
Or you sellin' dope
They was sellin' dope

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SPACESHIP VIEWS

Yeah, yeah, eh
(Honorable C.N.O.T.E.)
Yeah, yeah, uh

The Corvette roof evaporated
Pushed the button, it regenerated, stupid crazy
I'm super smart with paper
Niggas hating, imitated
That's just human nature, I don't blame them
I just keep-away 'em, my bro got a ray gun, uh
Motherf*cker play, bet he won't make summer
I put your bitch on a wave runner
I was on a yacht deck wavin' from it
I bought these trunks in London
I bought this hoodie on Fairfax, I'm all over, hundred
Like traces of that cocaine, I'm all over money
Eastside, eh

In a spaceship blowin' my face off (yeah)
I don't take no days off (yeah)
Too many y'all niggas laid up (yuh)
And that's why y'all niggas laid off (yuh)
Nigga did me dirty when I fell off (yeah)
But I ain't writin' no tell-all (yeah)
My book givin' you game, nigga (yuh)
I ain't gotta write about lame niggas (yuh)
And if you love that lame nigga
I'm still talkin' 'bout the same nigga (yeah)
Whatchu know about college-educated
And still had to sell cocaine, nigga? (yeah)
What you know about before the fame
Me and Steve still blowin' in flame, nigga? (yeah)
Son of Atlanta I am-a (yuh)
Product of grandma and grandpa (yuh)
The drunker I get and the slummer I get
And you hear that real westside Atlanta (yeah!)
I went to Doug, I know the plug
I know the preachers and I know the thug
Don't give a damn, don't give a f*ck
Rollin' in a '72 cutlass (yeah)
Polo tee with the bucket
Attitude still on "f*ck it"
I refrain from that f*ck-shit
I'm all about big bucks, bitch
Niggas wanna move like rap niggas
Me, I wanna move like Rob Smith
F*ck that rap and trap shit
I'm a landlord, bitch, pay rent
Pay rent

Ayy, ayy, we just get high and we fly away (Southside finest)
Ayy, ayy, in my spaceship got no time to waste (Toni)

762 in your bucket (yeah)
Mike got a '96 Impala (yeah)
Don't think I won't murk ya (yuh)
Be out by the time my son hit college (yuh)
Cold enough to make her knees wobble (yeah)
Double-G-G ski goggles (yeah)
Healthcare 'round my way (yuh)
Got an AK for a street bible
Hellcats makin' donuts, say them boys singin' like revival
Pulled out the piece, peace sign him
Hit her with the D and bought her designer
Half a mil' for my fee-finder
Use a coffee grinder for a weed grinder
Search your house for a key, find it
Got pounds of money then reclinin'
Arm & Hammer my best friend (yeah)
Turkey bag, my best friend
Dirty scale, my best friend
Rubber band, my best friend
Hold a joint with my left hand (yeah)
Hug my uncle on his deathbed (yeah)
'Nuff said is enough said (yuh)
One thing for sure, puff, pass

Can't be playin' with them folk for real
Fo petty
Put your ass under investigation
Investigation, uh
Investigation, nuh, yeah
Investigation
They'll put you on that shit
Ayy, ayy, we just get high and we fly away
Ayy, ayy, in my spaceship, got no time to waste

That's the best way to say it, more comfortable
Even though comfortable and safe is the same thing, but comfortable
You can be comfortable around killers, you know you ain't safe

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EXIT 9

Oh-oh-oh-oh

Whip my sixty-nine-five 'Burb from the curb
I done had to work it like a square and had to serve
I'm listenin' to Big and Dre, and crumblin' on erb
I'm pushin' down MLK with a quarter-pound of herb
Passin' through the temp', I say a prayer for fallen soldiers
Rest in peace to Bruce and may God be with DG Yola
God bless the dead, that's for Boonk, that's for Zeke
And God protected livin', that's for me and that's what's sweet
We done made it up from shorties (yeah)
Drinkin' forties, livin' lawless (oh-oh-oh-oh)
Today shiftin' the flame, diamond flawless and I fault this (yeah, yeah)
Thank the Lord, I ain't a junkie, ain't an alcoholic (oh-oh-oh-oh)
The pride of Atlanta, Michael Render steady ballin'

Let's bring out the champagne, roll up an airplane
Life is a rare thing (life is a rare thing)
We rise, we fall, even went back, so what?
I find a way I can maintain, yeah
She MLK, like my memory lane
Ain't no feelin' insane, hope you feelin' my pain
I put my blood, sweat, and tears in the game
Ain't no feelin' insane, hope you feelin' my pain

I remember them days, makin' minimum wage
I was tryna maintain, look how far I done came
Pop champagne for the pain, no campaginin' for chains
All the profits we made, bigger things on the way

Hoppin' over hurdles, into my Chevy converter (yeah)
Swerve around them haters that don't wish to see me further (oh)
My campaign for champagne could've ended with my murder
Miss Betty say, "If you ain't saved in Jesus name, it's worser"
I had to be my own boss, not somebody else's worker
I know the prayer she prayed for me still serve as my preserver
I know some of my actions, they was taxin' and I heard her (oh-oh-oh)
But Lord, if she listenin', please let her know I heard her (yeah)

Let's bring out the champagne, roll up an airplane
Life is a rare thing (life is a rare thing)
We rise, we fall, even went back, so what?
I find a way, I can maintain, yeah
She MLK, like my memory lane
Ain't no feelin' insane, hope you feelin' my pain
I put my blood, sweat, and tears in the game
Ain't no feelin' insane, hope you feelin' my pain

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SOMETHING FOR JUNKIES

Something for the addicts, something for the users
Something for the junkies and the substance abusers
Something for the car washers, something for the shade tree
Something for my uncle Jeff, he died and they paid me
Something for kin folks in front of my storefront
Shoutout to Terrence dad, I never hit your blunts
'Cause that was them blow blunts, that wasn't them dro blunts
That was them geek joints and I got slipped one
Man I was geeked once, man that was no fun
I had to call mom cause I am Denise' son
She said "stay calm, chill out and eat something"
Laughed at me later on, said, "You were just geeked, son"
This is for geek monsters, this is for junkies too
What Ready Ron did to DMX, did somebody do to you?
Ayy, this is for the J's working hard to get paid
Pay 'em fair wage and do not treat your people like slaves

Something for junkies, something for losers
Addicts and users, substance abusers
This is something for junkies, something for losers
Addicts and users, substance abusers
Something for junkies

When you see men fall, don't laugh
Learn, learn because you're on your way up
And the things that tempt people to fall
You and I are not free from that temptation
Nor from the weakness that will cause us to stumble and fall
When you laugh and somebody else's fall, white or Black
Rich or poor, your enemy or your friend
You are laughing and opening a way
For your own demise when you do that

Because to laugh and not learn
To make mockery and not to understand
Is to make the same mistake yourself

Woke up straight, travel great, counting my money
Had a quick convo with my auntie the junkie
I tell her, "Baby, you've been going too hard lately
See you like sixty, baby, but you've been looking eighty"
She said, "Shit, Michael, I've been smoking since '80
Before the shooters, back when we still called it freebasing"
She closed her eyes, fantasized 'bout better times
When she was beautiful, fine and still snorting lines
She told me stories of glory, the club saying Suzy
Atlanta night life was glamor, rich, Black, bougie
A damn movie, she says, puffing a damn loosie
Trigger warning, the next moment she took a hit
She zoned out, came back, took a spit
Looked at me said all of you got the same shit
She said, "Michael, you say you love me, I know you mean it
'Cause you still treat your junkie auntie like a human being"

Something for junkies, something for losers (something for the junkies, something for the users)
Addicts and users, substance abusers (something for the world all around us that abuse us)
This is something for junkies, something for losers (something for the lifestyle, don't never let it do ya)
Addicts and users, substance abusers (that's another world )

Something for junkies
Something for the junkies, something for the user
Something for the world all around us that abuse us
Tina went to school with me, that was baby Jordan's sister
She was bustin' 380 when I was down in Florida with her
I was young Paco, became a starting pistol
She used to tell me she loved the hell out of this Georgia nigga
Never take for granted what you love the most
I cried when I lost her to an overdose
The streets, they don't tell you about the ghosts
And you just can't ignore all of the junkies you see
Ayy, buddy only want one, but he brang back five
He get the whole pack off so you can get fly
It's your uncle, it's your cousin, it's your partner on the sly
Know somebody somewhere praying, "I hope my mama don't die"
Oh
I know somebody praying that my mama don't die
Something for the junkies and users
Oh
Something for the junkies and users and abusers
Somebody out here praying that my mama don't
My mama don't, my mama don't, ooh, yeah
And I hope my mama don't, don't die
Know somebody somewhere praying, "I hope my mama don't die"

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MOTHERLESS

Ooh-ooh

My mama dead (my mama dead)
My grandmama dead (dead)
To keep it honest, I get depressed and be feelin' scared (sometimes, I)
You see, I wasn't prepared (Yeah)
And never will be (Never will be)
To think about your destiny, sometimes, it kill me (sometimes, I)
You won't believe it, mama
I achieved it, mama
I turned these hatin' ass people to believers, mama (sometimes, I)
A Black boy born to a teen mama, mama
Disregarded as a leader by his people, mama (sometimes, I)
If God set me back to normal to be next to you
I would gladly trade it all 'cause I be missin' you (some, sometimes, I)
I be missin' huggin' you, I miss kissin' you
I miss all the jewels and I miss all your wisdom too (some, some, sometimes, I)
Some days, I be mean as f*ck, and I be meaner too (oh, oh, oh)
Fussin', fightin' over f*ck shit that be minuscule (sometimes, I)
Shay and Taj tell me that's just the Denice in you (I need you, mother)
And then send both your daughters, Mikey and Anniah too

Sometimes, I feel
Motherless (Mother, mother)

My mama dead (my mama dead, I need you)
Her mama dead (her mama dead)
Her mama died in my arms, my ma said that wasn't fair (oh, mother, mother)
Her mama raised me, I told her she crazy (sometimes, I need ya)
She told me, "One day, I'm gon' be gone, Michael, you gon' see" (mother, mother)
"That my mama wanted you, but you belong to me" (amen, sometimes)
And you don't understand the sacrifice that took from me (amen, sometimes, I feel)
Like, pullin' up on Sunday nights
Just to tell you I apologize, and mama, you was right (I need you, sometimes, I feel)
Like a hole in my heart (Pray for me), and I wanna call the Lord
But I don't know where to start

Sometimes, I feel (you used to pray for me)
Motherless (oh, oh)

My mama dead
My grandmama dead (mama)
I miss 'em so much, sometimes, I just cry and hold my head (mama, mama)
They left the world of man, like me and make sure all prepared (sometimes)
To live a life to make sure my wife ain't gon' beg for bread (sometimes, I need you)
I got an altar in my home to honor both of 'em (mother)
Just this mornin', I was smokin', smoked to both of 'em (sometimes, I need you)
I asked my Betty for her prayers over my generation (mother)
And I asked Niecy, "Keep me through my trials and tribulations" (sometimes)
Death'll come like thief in night and steal your joy away (and sometimes)
Have you askin', "God, why You forsake your boy, today?" (I said, "Sometimes")
Is this a blessing or a curse, or just some other shit? (sometimes, I need)
No matter what, I'm numb as f*ck 'cause I'm still motherless (you)

My mama dead
My grandmama dead (sometimes, I need you)
My mama dead
My grandmama dead
Sometimes, I feel (you used to pray for me)
Motherless (oh, oh)
My mama dead
My grandmama dead (mama, mama, mama)

Sometimes (ooh)
Sometimes, I need you, mother (ooh)
Sweet (sometimes)
Sweet
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet
Sweet, sweet, sweet
Denice, sweet
Hmm
Hmm-hmm
Sweet, sweet, sweet
Denice
Sweet mama

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DON'T LET THE DEVIL

(It's so hard)

Ayy
The jewels runners, the product of many cruel summers
And the description was fittin', they say it's two gunners
Slap chickpeas out your cheek until you drool hummus
Left the scene in Hellcat Scream 'cause we don't do Hondas
But we do Benihanas, takin' your baby mama
She hostage me in the Hummer, she kiss it to pay me homage
She work it like I deserve it, she move like the perfect pervert
They say Mississippi burnin', I'm sippin' syrup eatin' sherbet
Watch the world go to Hell as I'm laughin' sayin', "It's perfect"
Catch me after Sunday service disturbin' the churches workers
Tell the deacon we ain't speakin', need money, his prayers worthless
I can tell through my alertness he's nervous about his purchase
Ayy, in the name of Jesus, the reefer, I serve a purpose
My guy higher than the sky, as he fly over earth surface
Flyin' satellite height as I'm lookin' at earth's circus
Keep your eyes on the prize and don't let the devil coerce you

It's so hard
Oh no, don't you let
It's so hard
Oh no, don't you let
It's so

Bad to meet me, A to K-er sprayin' the greedy
You should've brought the Uzi, oopsie, I'm a doozie
How you movin'? One of two in, super groupin'
Gorilla glued up to the cash, couldn't lose it
Good gacious, motherf*ckers really not dangerous
Any pussy that hate 'em simply facin' erasure
Jaime for mayor, vote for the brain filet-er
Be a AR, spray the radar down invaders
Fame destined, the piggy dissection connection
Put necks in, grip and afflict tension, upper rope elbow to plexis
No mid smoke, upper smoke, only the low would make an exception
BrookLanta Lord bless us, snipers at the Nexus
Lifers come and check us, we next still?
Goddamn the game, it ain't fair, thoughts and prayers
Shut the f*ck up, put your hands in the air

It's so hard (Run The Jewels)
Oh no, don't you let
It's so hard
Oh no, don't you let
It's so

Shut the f*ck up, Run The Jewels
Don't let, let the devil coerce
Devil coerce
Oh no, don't you let
It's so-

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HIGH AND HOLY

Real niggas, it's my honour to pay you homage
And extend the same respect to all your baby mamas
'Cause streets is trifled
We carry rifles, granny carry Bibles
We carry hatred for our rivals, same as Cain and Abel
Killed his brother 'cause God showed him favour
Mankind killed his own saviour
Man will kill his neighbour (Do it again)
Man will kill his neighbour
They say, "It's in our nature"
They say, "We're children of a lesser god" and treat us hateful
Shit it's so disgraceful
I stay prayed and faithful
I apologize if I've ever spoken distasteful
Words in front of elders, sittin' at the dinner table
I rightened up and tightened up and God showed me favour

Blowin' smoke up at the Heavens, count my blessings, tryna find atonement
My life's a testimony, that's why I stay high and holy
That's why I stay high and holy (I stay high and holy)
Blowin' smoke up at the Heavens, count my blessings, tryna find atonement
My life's a testimony, that's why I stay high and holy
That's why I stay high and holy

Men have died for dollars, men have killed for pennies
But too few have made a difference 'fore life is finished
Like, did you love a woman? Did you raise a child?
Did you show some love? Did you give a smile?
Well, you made the suffer when you didn't deserve it
You f*cked up, that's okay, bruh, ain't nobody perfect
They say, "Get right with God 'cause the devil lurkin'
Lay your worries down, give God all your burdens"
My brother's in the fire and to save him's my desire
Our ambitions often could conspire to go higher
God bless those that confess and God damn the liars
Quoted like I wrote it, Micheal father of Ania

Blowin' smoke up at the Heaven, count my blessings, tryna find atonement
My life's a testimony, that's why I stay high and holy
That's why I stay high and holy (I stay high and holy)
Blowin' smoke up at the Heaven, count my blessings, tryna find atonement
My life's a testimony, that's why I stay high and holy
That's why I stay high and holy

I stay high and holy
I stay high, high and holy
High and holy