Watch Me

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