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Boldy James

Optional

Release date: 24th May 2011

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"Optional" is a track by Boldy James, from the album Trapper’s Alley: Pros & Cons, released 24th May 2011. Full lyrics are available below.

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Boldy James

Boldy James

Lyrics

Optional

[Intro]

It's concreatures

Yeah I hear y'all niggas man

I see that skeechy shit y'all niggas be on

Don't think my eyes ain't peeled

Ears ain't still to the streets

I'm up on all that man

Y'all niggas ain't slick man

Can't pull no wool over my eyes

I got you niggas all figured out

[Verse 1]

I deal drugs, cause the money comes much quicker

But I never wanted to be a drug dealer

Giving sacks and satchels to the young critters

Set a bad example for my little sister

So I can't get mad when she don't listen

Real life shit, no pulp fiction

All white bricks, whole lot of dope dealing

On the nightshift, bringing home dinner

Left my gun at the crib, got my heart skipping

It feel like one of my body parts missing

Hitting runs with my kids in the car tripping

When I'm ripping and running that's when I start drifting

Forgetting, I could have easily had fallen victim

And that would've been me lost in the system

Trying to see the light, gotta be consistent

In this concreature life, concreature living

[Hook]

Now I don't know everything, but I know what not to do

It's optional

Cause I done sold everything, you can smoke, bump, pop and shoot

Them Oxy's too

It's money over everything, but it ??? just cock and shoot

You got the juice

Now I don't know everything, but I know what not to do

It's optional

[Verse 2]

I'm so thug I get the mask in 3A

Niggas getting roped up then gagged in great taste

He a fucking has-been and a cheapskate

So we hit his stash for a half and three eighths

Niggas talk about a bag never seen weight

And he don't talk cash cause he can't

You ain't never seen a half in a briefcase

Or took a road trip trappin' in the Peach state

From the Ole Miss on my way to PA

Back to 76 no Philadelphia's freeway

In the '06 with a bitch from BK that I never hit

Bitch on my dick, but she gay

And I'm on tips, in West VA

With my whole clique running get rich relays

Nickname Bo, OT it's BJ

Besides God, only thing I fear is D-E-A

[Hook]

Now I don't know everything, but I know what not to do

It's optional

Cause I done sold everything, you can smoke, bump, pop and shoot

Them Oxy's too

It's money over everything, but it ??? just cock and shoot

You got the juice

Now I don't know everything, but I know what not to do

It's optional

[Verse 3]

Moved in next door, meet your neighbors

We got it sold from Evergreen to Schaffer

Drinking Rémy 'gnac sold with a chaser

Mixing Henny with the Mo getting wasted

With ??? girl, I post with green acres

I been selling dope since a pre-teenager

With a little bit of gold and a pager

The scale broke, cut my finger with the razor

Bled all over the dining room table

A fiend died, got fried hooking up the cables

Now it's a down power line on the pavement

Hook outside, now the house getting raided

Had to downsize and dock niggas' payments

Now I hide inside and chop ninja ???

On the south side of the mall in the spaceship

Getting daps and high-fives from the gangsters

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From Trapper’s Alley: Pros & Cons

2011
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Trapper’s Alley: Pros & Cons
Trapper’s Alley: Pros & Cons
Boldy James
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2011
  1. —Home Invasion
  2. —Drops of Reign
  3. —Gettin Flicked
  4. —Ground Beneath My Feet
  5. —I Sold Dope All My Life
  6. —Killin’ da 5th
  7. —Long Run
  8. —Meet The Neighbors (Skit)
  9. —Optional
  10. —This My Corner
  11. —Life Time
  12. —JIMBO
  13. —Runnin From The Police
  14. —Truck Drivin School
  15. —Pumpin Gas

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