Remember What I Said

[T-Mo]

Trying to keep my head above water

Selling myself short to meet the fucking quota

Still there's niggas at my heels to get my paper

Stacking up in the bank, the layers on the cake-a

Thinking like Jimmy, Tami, oh it's low down

Niggas be getting mad as I go 'round like Pac

The shit don't stop, I hid the rock in my sock

Did my day and a half, now it's autographs I be signing

Instead of police papers

Caught scheming, not pulling capers, no fed time

Just mental healing

What you dealing with? The angelic uplift

It's a way to save everything with your gift

(Yeah)

Now a seed to a tree was to be

(Yeah)

A boy to a man comes up quickest like a dream

You really don't understand why

'Til you gone and dead

So when your time comes

Just remember what I said

Human'll find truth to tell a lie

Take away my past and don't show me I can fly

Sly like Stone, it's on, you say peace

I can't relate homes, I'm on the fucking streets

Believe it or not, I'm sure there be calmer situations

When dirty cops approach me joe, I'm on probation

Hesitating could get me took

What can I do? Mildew?

Can I take your place on your next trip to

The islands of Alto, so it's going down like that

I'm back to bat dropping wits on wax

To fit into the mix of the rich and scan'lous

Can't let 'em handle us any kind of way, fuck it

And run away, I don't want it torn joe

I think they gay, don't wanna play my shit up north

But that's okay, jealousy can go a long way

And what goes around comes around in the A-town

[Big Gipp]

Have you ever thought about what it would be like

If everybody woke up and said "Fuck work"

Webs of small talk, people caught up in this thing

I try to relax, but I stay shaking like the blue flame

It keeps coming, this and that, that and this

Another suing me, well I add him to the list

Flows and flows, with the girls with the tight clothes

Saying anything to get off in these back doors

Irritating like what's on them thirties

Ain't looking for no more friends, I got enough buddies

A thousand attempts with thirty cents to their name

I got enough pine but I can't find the flame

Sweet like honeysuckles, country like that cha cha on the green

Jumping fences and rooms with large laughter

Original gene grafter, more and more ways to eat

Brews tested by the astronauts, turn the turn the watts up

Listen to what I said

CNN all day in your eyes and your head

[Khujo]

No longer can I ask when I'm in your presence

Now it's hard to tell whether you're trying to hurt or help me

At the bottom of this barrel scraping

Next time I promise to stand for self-determination

Instead of always taking from cool

Keeping the same color as you and me, continue to battle DNA

Let's travel to a remote city get back, have mercy

Unravel and break the chains of chemical dependency

Plastic can eventually explode bits and pieces of my soul

Shattering, just not being put back together

We can rule, but still brothers won't use that tool

In between their shoulders, click

Hearts cold as bricks, nipples what better way to cripple

An entire race on the paper chase

Getting my toes stepped on, then kicked in my face

Every time I open my mouth I represent the South

Dirty like red, it was the lifestyle I led

Worshipping vanity, fornicating out of wedlock

Locked in yesterday's trunk of secrets, I fled

Went from sugar to sheet rock

Get your rocks, sweet licks turn sour

By the hour, over on tiger flower

If that light went on that meant go

Say what you really mean, I atone

For all the women I abused as a youngster

People got four fifths out this dumpster

[Cee-Lo]

Compositions should be able to make the connections

From reflections of living

Why every breath is God-given

Appreciating, especially waiting

Letting time do the educating

In order to know

Sunshine and the rain are both needed

Or the seed can't grow

It's given me some form of inner vision

How the paragraphs are prepared with precision

Unveiling evidence that this is no coincidence

We've been sent

Judge not by my skin color but my character's content

In no way is this an attempt to claim to be exempt

From my people's situations, but I have moral obligations

See I want to be all right with God

Long conversations at night with God

My arms are gonna always be too short to fight with God

To all this might not be appealing

But I can't help feeling the way I do

I realize that my reward won't come from any of you

See everybody got a little light under the sunshine

But unselfishly I still want to share mine

And what you choose to do is on you

You've got to stand on your own feet cause I ain't got but two

I can't knock you for not knowing

But I could for you not wanting to learn

Nor for asking, but I could for you not wanting to earn

No I can't, cause somebody even had to tell me twice

So this music is my sacrifice, so I'll be dedicated

Determinated and dependable, to demonstrate directly

And use the opportunity correctly

So forget the gold teeth

And uh, and uh

Forget the bald head

Forget it sound country

Just remember what I said