Water

Album: Phrenology (2002)
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  • South Philly, North Side
    Oakland, Texas
    Georgia, Black People
    Yo, Worldwide, Sup my nigga
    You know what I'm saying
    Dumb and blind

    They say a record ain't nothing if it's not touching
    Gripping, draw you in closer make you want to listen to it
    And if you real ill at making music
    Then lesson will feel like you livin' through it
    That's how my nigga do it
    I met Slacks back in like '91 rapping
    We went to Millersville to get away from gun clappin'
    It ain't last
    I be in class dreaming 'bout
    50,000 fans up in the stands screaming out
    Encore, yo I'm headed back to Philly
    Nigga you rollin' with me?
    I'm trying to get busy
    We walk dogs that was off the chain
    Lot of times at the show people hardly came
    I just took it in stride as part of the game
    But inside people down with me started to change
    It was a couple things
    Lil' [unknown], lil' pills
    Instead of driving out on the road you rather chill
    I know the way the pleasure feel
    I'm not judging
    But still I'm on a mission, yo I'm not buggin'
    I got fam that won't stop druggin'
    They can't sleep
    They can't stick to one subject, they can't eat
    Is people steady comin' at me out in the streets
    Like Riq yo wat up with your peeps
    It gets deep nigga

    Yo, you need to walk straight, master your high
    Son you missin' out on was passing you by
    I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry
    But not you and I my nigga
    We got to get
    Come on, over over the water
    Come on, over over the water
    Water, Water

    Yo, we done made too many meals
    A couple of deals
    We done share clothes and wills
    Killed mics and reels
    We done rock
    Shows abroad, and slept on floors
    Trying to figga what the fuck we gettin' slept on for
    Oh why we walking with the rep up for
    Waited by the cavity law
    You know it if you came up poor my nigga
    Picture a bus up north
    You know we made of everything outlaws are made of
    I'm far from a hater
    And I don't say I love you 'cause the way I feel is greater
    In Illa you a poet son
    You a ball creator
    And this will probably dawn on you later
    Is in you nature, letters all up in the wall like they made of paper
    You got to find out where you talent take you
    You might fuck around, finally make it
    And that's real but yo

    Yo, you need to walk straight, master your high
    Son you missin' out on was passing you by
    I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry
    But not you and I my nigga
    We got to get
    Come on, over over the water
    Come on, over over the water
    Water, Water

    Yo, I want you all to understand I come from South Philly
    And when I walk the street is like a pharmacy
    They got all type of shit
    Anybody could get
    It goes from H to Ex
    To lucy ciggarette
    For my ghetto legend
    Known from Lil' shyst running
    Cop codeine by the courts and keep comin'
    Dummy, just embracing the dope like it's a woman
    You burnin' both sides of the rope and keep pullin'
    Tuggin', in between Islam and straight tuggin'
    Laying everyday around the way and doin' nothin'
    See'em looking shaking their head and start shruggin'
    If they don't have a man like mine, they got a cousin
    Hey yo you better be a true friend to 'em
    Before the shit put an end to 'em
    Or give a pen to 'em
    Or lock'em up in the studio with a mic
    'Cause on the real it might save his life
    Keep tellin'em

    Yo, you need to walk straight, master your high
    Son you missin' out on was passing you by
    I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry
    But not you and I my nigga
    We got to get
    Come on, over over the water
    Come on, over over the water
    Water, Water
    Yo, you need to walk straight, master your high
    Son you missin' out on was passing you by
    I done seen the streets suck a lot of cats dry
    But not you and I my nigga
    We got to get
    Come on, over over the water
    Come on, over over the water
    Water, Water Writer/s: ARCHIE LEE THOMPSON, CORY JOSEPH ISAIAH CANNON, KOAST, THOMPSON
    Publisher: Anthem Entertainment, Bluewater Music Corp., Downtown Music Publishing, O/B/O DistroKid, Royalty Network, Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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