The White Shoes
by Wale

Album: Album About Nothing (2015)
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  • Take this good advice
    If they're gonna judge you for life
    Say we can't always be fly
    We gon' be good long as them sneakers white
    You'll be alright
    Said you'll be alright

    Gucci iced out, whole hood had 'em
    Ice cream 'fore the hypebeasts that's into fashion
    Being forreal, yo try being Pharrell
    When your black ass in a back class, the fronting was real
    No Lauren London, we was on a budget
    You know, sharin' Old Navy so the army could be fresh in public
    Where the sneaker stores and laundromats get all the money
    Cause it ain't 'bout what you're doin', 'bout how you're lookin'
    When they love you for your status and your catalog
    And everybody got a jersey to play along
    Back then the hoes checkin' for your zapatos
    So even dirty niggas had the foams

    Take this good advice
    If they're gonna judge you for life
    Say we can't always be fly
    We gon' be good long as them sneakers white
    You'll be alright
    Said you'll be alright

    Biotech trainers on the way to work
    And we would quietly complain while Eric would lurk
    That was the PG Plaza manager, managin' us
    Yeah I'm standin' in Lucky 7s but slingin' them Lugz
    Still have them Js for the low, low, and I could get 'em early
    But I'm not without a conscience, I see people out there hurtin'
    Got 'em for Penny Foams that was bought at this very store
    And I think that was my shift, then again I'm not very sure
    And that's a lot that can get to ya
    When you're not sellin' drugs but the outcome is similar
    Cause out come them niggas with pistols, tellin' you give 'em up
    Now out come the moms with tissues cause you ain't give a fuck
    Free lunch for everyone, income was very uh
    On the second and 16th everyone would have every 1
    And Reebok would carry pump, and that's not the scary part
    These niggas love white shoes so much they'd be buried in them

    You'll be alright

    Take this good advice
    If they're gonna judge you for life
    Say we can't always be fly
    We gon' be good long as them sneakers white
    You'll be alright
    Said you'll be alright

    No matter how good or lavish us niggas got it
    We just a bunch of ravenous addicts living for fancy haberdashery Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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