Cents

Why was I seekin they validation?
when life is attraction, ain't no chasin
Procrastination, hesitation
to watch the next man's moves
for motivation, debatin
will never get you what's meant for you
or change them bank statements
I ain't got the patience
To keep falling on my face
I'm hurtin, waitin, anxious
Trippin bout why they don' t love me
I rather tie my laces
And keep on runnin in my purpose
took me a while to find it, worth it
Every brick I lay, I earned it
how to listen, yeah I learned it
That's what life's about
I hear them ancestors talkin to me
I need they faces on my currency
they bought it for me
The chance to be me, to be great
To create my fate
relate, to the real ones
my place, somewhere high
when I get to zonin
Wake up
the same hunger from night to mornin
Fly in the sky cant be scared of fallin
pickin up wit fate callin callin
i be pickin up wit money callin callin
I be pickin up my daughter callin callin
Why seekin they validation ?
It do nothin for me
nah it don't help my story
I rather pour a 40
To the memory of any doubt
to the memory of fallin out
when I was just a shorty
Wit frenemies who envy me
they try to treat you poorly
Talkin bout the shit that's on you
never what's in you, affordin
Me to cut niggas off
since 6th grade
no switch blade
my disdain
I sustain
Low tolerance
mo knowledge and
You know relationships is currency
they lost all they shit
Hopped off the 115 to my dream
followed it
Moms want me to get a doctorate
Prefer Andre Young and Chris Wallace and
All the pictures on my wall
Source, XXL
to San Vicente, La Brea
cookin wit Khalil
Tryna make a livin off these culinary skills
Serving rhymes in them fields
what it take to make a mill
and reinvest, residuals sweeter than Sugar Hill
That we dumped in the pitcher
hopin kool -aid don't spill
When streetlights was the spotlight
before the limelight
I always knew who I would grow to be
and I guess did it right
I made a dollar outta 15 cents
The other 85 is the reason I'm alive
I make ambition make cents
I make Hussle make cents
I made a dollar outta 25 cents
The other 3 quarters I was drowning up in water
Made swimming make cents
I make Hussle make cents