The Joy

Album: Single Release Only (2010)
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  • Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and
    A great big expression of happiness
    Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses
    Such would astound you
    The joy of children laughing around you
    These are the makings of you

    I do it for the fore-fathers and the street authors
    That are not A&R's in the cheap office
    Rappers that never got signed but they keep offers
    Girls that's way too fine for us to keep off us
    Gave her a handshake only for my man's sake
    She in her birthday suit cause of the damn cake
    Now there's crumbs all over the damn place
    And she want me to cum all over her damn face
    I never understood planned parenthood
    'Cause I never met nobody planned to be a parent in the hood
    Taking refills of that plan B pill
    Another shorty that won't make it to the family will
    If I don't make it, can't take it, hope the family will
    They ain't crazy they don't know how insanity feel
    Don C just had a shorty so it's not that bad
    But I still hear the ghosts of the kids I never had

    Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and
    A great big expression of happiness
    Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses
    Such would astound you
    The joy of children laughing around you
    These are the makings of you

    No Electro, no metro, a little retro, ahh perfecto
    You know the demo, ya boy act wild
    You ain't get the memo? Yeezy's back in style
    Now one room got Gidget, the other got Bridget
    What's more tripped out dawg is they sisters
    Nah, you ain't listen, they black, they sisters
    They momma, named them after white bitches
    So next time you see me on your fallopian
    Though the jewelry's Egyptian, know the hunger's Ethiopian
    Stupid questions like, "Is he gon' be dope again?
    Have you seen him? Has anybody spoke to him?"
    This beat deserves Hennessy, a bad bitch and a bag of weed, the Holy Trinity
    In the mirror where I see my only enemy
    Your life's cursed, well mine's an obscenity

    Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and
    A great big expression of happiness
    Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses
    Such would astound you
    The joy of children laughing around you
    These are the makings of you

    This is my momma shit
    I used to hear this through the walls in the hood
    When I was back in my pajama shit
    Afro's and marijuana sticks, seeds and the ganja had
    It popping like the sample that I'm rhyming with
    Pete Rock, let the needle drop
    I seen so much as a kid they surprised I don't needle pop
    Taking sips of pop's six-pack of Miller nips
    Pink Champale, Ballantine Ale
    Ballys on my feet help me balance out well
    That and the shit I used to balance on the scale
    I got it honest from the parties from my momma's
    Virgin Mary's try to judge her, I'm like, "Where the Madonna's now?"
    Give all glory to Gloria, they said, "You raised that boy too fast"
    But you was raising a warrior
    We victorious, they'll never take the joy from us, uh

    Keep you hands up, get 'em high now
    Don't let them take your fire
    Keep you hands up, get 'em high now
    Don't let them take your fire
    Keep you hands up, get 'em high now
    Don't let them take your fire
    Keep you hands up, get 'em high now

    It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay
    It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay
    It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay
    It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay Writer/s: Curtis Mayfield, Jeff Bhasker, Jeffrey Bhasker, Kanye West, Peter O. Phillips, Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, Shawn Carter, Talib Kweli
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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