Get involved in how the world revolves and evolves
Get involved in how the world revolves and evolves
Get involved in how the world revolves and evolves
Get involved in how the world revolves and evolves
Solve all that you can solve before your mind dissolves
Get downright dirty on em hella quick
Put air in your tires, step in the shit
Bust raps, caps, throw rocks or pick up a stick
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
I learned real early that life was hard
Sit down at the table, get dealt your cards
Might get a good hand, could get a bad hand
The hood lands and bad lands that turn you to a madman
Barely can sleep at night
Tryin to make the ends meet just to keep it tight
You want what he got but he ain't got much
It's a beautiful thing that you cannot touch
You want what she got but she ain't got much
And to do without, you never heard of such
Well it's the luck of the draw, some come up short
I know you wanna keep your boat and your boat with a floor
I wanna double my notes, I don't wanna vote
I want everyone to read what I wrote
But most likely, life ain't a bowl of cherries though
Same old scenario
Sometimes it's just sour milk
In the hour of guilt your flowers wilt
And it's all in the power of what you built
You wanna lie in the casket with golden silk
As for I, wrap me in Kente cloth
Give me my respect due and then step off
Cause people nowadays'll straight twist you up
Have you broken up and can't nobody fix you up
And I was sayin to myself
I was gonna do somethin about that tomorrow
Yo, yo, check it but you was lyin to
Yourself and that can make you sick
So get downright dirty on em hella quick
Put air in your tires, step in the shit
Bust raps, caps, throw rocks or pick up a stick
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
Get downright dirty on em hella quick
I learned real early that life was hard
Never ever shit in your own backyard
Never fake the funk or front to play the part
Be smart, live life, love, respect the art
Cause people take kindness for weak or prey
And they take for granted when you say what you say
They take advantage of the fact you give your heart away
You should be able to see through these games people play
Cause people just use you and just won't stop
You won't say nothin and it makes you hot
They say they're your friends but they really are not
Because they only out to try and get what you got
The Joneses, what a classic case
It can turn a nigga into a basketcase
I know they all runnin to see who is the fastest in the race
You might as well get on your knees and ask for grace
Cause many will lose but some'll come in last place
And many get bruised but some get blasted in the face
Somebody once told me that people were strange
I never knew what it meant til I seen some people change
I know you really want it but it's out of your range
And if you plan to get it then you gotta take some pain
You gotta master the fear
You just say, "Fear, come here," and drop a bug in his ear
And tell him to disappear and then buy him a beer
No hard feelings when some people turn into tricks
Some say it's just the natural pick
It's like Darwin's theory, but y'all don't hear me
Strong is how they skim me, never with the gimme-gimme
Bottle of water or a shot of Remy
My name is Ace One baby, not Timmy
And you can get the jimmy
You get downright dirty on em hella quick
Put air in your tires, step in the shit
Bust raps, caps, throw rocks or pick up a stick
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
Get downright dirty on em hella quick