48 Laws

[00:05.04] Yea, I'm off the clock, permanently calling shots like Dick Vitale
[00:13.41] Shake up the world for sure, no Richter Scale
[00:15.73] Blindfold the truth from youth, I lift the veil
[00:18.11] Please don't fuck with me
[00:19.82] Living the dream, secretly I'm seeing the things you see on the screen
[00:23.44] Recently I fiend for weed, I need it to dream
[00:25.75] Niggas ain't paid their dues - I need receipts
[00:28.74] Please don't fuck with me
[00:30.11] I been through weathering storms, torrential rain
[00:32.57] My penmanship just pencils instant pain
[00:35.08] Came from 9-to-5's, afraid to fly
[00:37.46] Till I earn my wings and now they wave goodbye
[00:39.99] Took me thirty years just to get it started
[00:42.28] Long as the tombstone says artist
[00:45.06] Dreamville the '96 Bulls
[00:47.38] Taking all y'all power breaking 48 Laws
[00:50.14] How 'bout it?
[00:51.92] I played my cards and changed the odds my nigga
[00:54.23] How 'bout it?
[00:56.39] I made it through hell while blocked from heaven my nigga
[00:58.77] How 'bout it?
[01:01.45] I played my cards and changed the odds my nigga
[01:04.06] How 'bout it? How 'bout it?
[01:06.66] Hot rod, ride by, slow down the block
[01:11.54] Shots fired, drive-by - Lord will it stop?
[01:14.10] Cowards on the news think that cowardice is gritty
[01:16.36] Bullets whizzing by me every time I'm in the city
[01:18.81] Kill me, rob me, take my gems and jewels
[01:21.67] And paint my schools with Jesus Christ as white
[01:23.44] Then lock my father up for life
[01:25.38] Institutionalize my rights, then hide my plight from sight
[01:28.62] That's trickery, steal our swag, that's mimicry
[01:31.04] I am original man, empirically
[01:33.63] Chi City heart, I'm just being honest
[01:35.81] Born poet, nigga fuck a song here's a sonnet
[01:38.46] How 'bout it?
[01:40.56] I played my cards and changed the odds my nigga
[01:43.06] How 'bout it?
[01:45.62] I made it through hell while blocked from heaven my nigga
[01:48.48] How 'bout it?
[01:50.63] I played my cards and changed the odds my nigga
[01:53.90] How 'bout it? How 'bout it?
[01:55.64] How 'bout it? How 'bout it?
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