Good Lord
Labtex
I'm a let y'all in a little secret right here
This the independent journal right here
Straight out the trunk
Get them elbows dirty
Chapter one, verse one
Let me let y'all, let me let y'all know something
They say we should know better
But we don't know better
We just some flow spitters
With no goals in us
Don't know a thing about moving units
Or how to market records
Never said the words that's good
But is it cost effective
I'm a MC nigga I MC
So don't ask me how to turn a thousand records into 10 G's
Or how that 10 turn to 50 so quickly
That the bank teller rubbing her eyes thinking I'm coke pitching
I never walked up to a total stranger and sold an album
Never told them if they don't buy it they don't know what live is
And vinyl why should I pass them to the DJ's
And flyers why should I post them in the freezing rain
That's nonsense there's no profit in that
You can't clear a G just for rocking a half hour set
Nope I never and I hope I never will
All I do is write rhymes and pray to God I get a deal
And laugh at these indy cats and all that hustling
You can't own a record label and live off the publishing
You can't do it and I'm living proof of it
That's why I tell these young niggas it's better to do nothing
Watch me
You don't plan and you don't think
You can't swim so you gone sink
You don't work and you don't eat
You ain't about nothing so why you out hustling
You don't plan and you don't think
You can't swim so you gone sink
You don't work and you don't eat
You ain't about nothing so why you out hustling
All you haters listen up
This is for y'all that think y'all know us
Let me talk to them
See all I hear is uh-oh every time I pass y'all
They think I'm a cut throat or that I'm an asshole
Yeah well that's close if you someone
That owe me something we agreed upon
A promoter that's become someone I got to swing these on
You don't know me dog or my team nah
So don't assume that we don't know what we doing like we some amateurs
Beginners don't work 9 to 5's on the streets selling merchandise
Post the flyer on ads on radio and have commercials televised
So we sort of get the show live
The sound that makes you so hot
Then go home and build a business up from the ground for the clout
Nah nah I ain't never raise the heat
I ain't never blaze the streets to a temple
You can't sleep just cause I can't eat
That ain't me man just an MC and
I can't be different from them when I'm in Michigan
Watch me and think again
I don't plan I don't care
I don't make money make money
This music gon' take you there
And y'all ain't scared dog
You can be right where you are
I mean we ain't that hard
This ain't a nightmare for y'all
Well like it or not you ain't fighting the odds
Or lying to yourself if you believe the last 19 bars
You don't plan and you don't think
You can't swim so you gone sink
You don't work and you don't eat
You ain't about nothing so why you out hustling
You don't plan and you don't think
You can't swim so you gone sink
You don't work and you don't eat
You ain't about nothing so why you out hustling
I just don't get it why you go with this
Independent route hoping you gone gross millions
We just some flow spitters with no goals in us
Don't know nothing about looping up some soul vintage
Not interested in going direct to dealer and
Cutting out the middle man for a bigger percentage and
Anyway that shit's impossible it can't be done
That's what labels is for have an executive handle that son
Laying my head on floors just to get my records in stores
Fuck outta here foreign concept like import and export
What I look like dealing with the Czech Republic
Then getting my hands dirty cleaning up a mess in customs
Surviving miracles MacGyvering vehicles
On a Penn Turnpike with your nigga dying
In the back if you don't get him home
Never been surveillanced and plotted
Against by rappers in the audience
Cause too many people was copping my shit
I'm following trends not inventing new styles
And there's no loot in moving units in the tens of thousands
All that hustling is a hassle so I'm saving my odds and ammo
To get at Puff after this 106 & Park battle
You don't plan and you don't think
You can't swim so you gone sink
You don't work and you don't eat
You ain't about nothing so why you out hustling
You don't plan and you don't think
You can't swim so you gone sink
You don't work and you don't eat
You ain't about nothing so why you out hustling
Now On, S.U.N. yeah they about something
Sky Children yeah we all hustling
Invincible yeah she about something
Finale yo he all hustling
Tashir and Graffiti you know they about something
Pac-Man you know he out hustling
Fat Cat you know he about something