100 to One

[Verse 1] Middle of ‘84 when opportunity heard me Said she had to sift through the crowd but she preferred me Dying for attention but living in it concerned me Waited me out, wanted to see if it would discourage me Almost, but shout out to patience first and foremost Gave me more time to do away with my morals Like “fuck am I to do with these?”, used to hide behind them in the line of scrutiny It wasn’t new to me that I can change all this I just needed a lane I could play in accordance with, wade in the water shit God’s gonna trouble the waves when all the water hit I just need enough for this pot that I can boil with So dear God, save me an ounce or two Whether we talking water or we talking what powder do Blasphemy right, but shit I’m still asking you like “we can even all of these odds from what massa’ was like”, for real [Hook] ‘Cause there’s money here to be made though Devils pull up in plain clothes Black dreams with these Anglos It’s best to act like you ain’t know (Repeat 2x) [Verse 2] Avi told me be grateful My Umi told me to keep the gate closed Leave whatever’s in the streets from outta this safe home That I built with these same hands that kept your plate full I cleaned my plate then took her car To see Avi and convince him that what I put in a jar Could have me back here tomorrow copping double These pebbles became a goldmine under that rubble And nah I’m not the same kid coming here begging you for a couple grams Re-ing up off of singles is hard to understand Reed gets it, money is money and won’t a soul see it different, and I ain’t mean to pivot But yo if Lee doesn’t get snatched, mugshot attached Then I wouldn’t have been on their radar as a “perhaps” Like “perhaps he can be the mule that we can feed this through He seems like he the type to keep free from the news” But Lee was doing me a favor, after like 20 others I was the only child who naturally wanted brothers There was Lee and then another, shout to Mrs. Hamilton Kev’ already was who he was, you couldn’t manage him My motto forever is “the closer you stand together the harder it is to see who you standing with” It’s funny how Kane being away, left Kev running free with cocaine leading the way to his name Seeing a grave Look at life, one Kane could’ve stopped the other And I fucked around and dropped my brother Accidents with purpose, Judas is never Judas on the surface Same apply to Reed but my deed on this purchase Is a weekly occurrence off an invisible contract My gun tucked and my arms back, I’m comfortable now, but not at all They say the room echoes the more that you got it all My mama said her worst day was when she got a call Saying I’m in a cage, make a lion out a panther killing how he was raised County blues will turn a king to a dot on a page And my temporary fear was just hiding my rage, for real [Hook] ‘Cause there’s money here to be made though Devils pull up in plain clothes Black dreams with these Anglos It’s best to act like you ain’t know (Repeat 2x) [Verse 3] South Central calamity Water to wine should you go hand to hand with me Look like the same hands that wanted to abandon me But all was forgiven the moment that you ran to me Run like the numbers they throwing at us for counting more Where less on the scale lead to them kicking down your door The crown yours when they’re creating laws on you And the diamonds embedded in it turn into thorns on you, like Five grams of rock, 500 grams of powder The line in the sand and who’s standing over ours The tipping point is you copping for your survival And all of that privilege falls beside you Idols become rivals, and then they can turn into your partner Like them so called Villanueva martyr’s But Olso is solid, and we learned to be cool But his bitch is the reason my three turned into two Like if my foot’s on the line and I’m Spencer Haywood I’m just a kid from outside that’s tryna make good College dreaming I was beaming, tryna play good But shit I jumped off the steps because it pay good, simple as that cuz [Hook] ‘Cause there’s money here to be made though Devils pull up in plain clothes Black dreams with these Anglos It’s best to act like you ain’t know (Repeat 2x)