[Intro: Head I.C.E.]
Uh. Harlem. ICE. Wolf love. Tell 'em
[Hook]
Shed a little bit of love for the better
Let a nigga know where he can go to get his shit together, huh
Cold bleed
Pour your soul for the cold
Youngin in the streets where the beds ain't warm
Don't sleep
[Verse 1]
Paranoia, heard they had it for ya
Had it on ya plus you enforcers, daddy warned ya
Karma was a mother
Good brother too, I put my name on it, found out the property is his mothers
Discovering the obvious
This knowledge is off the books
They don't prepare you for the world in most colleges
Problems get overlooked
And these niggas followin'
Shit that ain't even cook, these bitches swallowin'
Without the condiments, learn life through other conduits
Cause they don't like Common but'll listen to common sense
How 'bout we switch positions
You talk I'ma listen
(Nah mama yo go 'head, go 'head)
...
I'm still listenin'
You talkin' all that shit and ain't say shit
Just an ear full
Guess you takin' up space
Heard moms is movin' out and you takin' the place
Word, you head of the house?
Then I'm on the way
Heard you make them other niggas pay that how she play
'Member Bonnie? Dated scrawny Ronnie, Tom in county
Tommy shot out with that Tommy, missed his man but hit everybody
[Hook] {x2}
[Verse 2: Loaded Lux]
I knew some old timers that faded out
Stakin' out at my mama's just tryin' to make it out
It was "get a job" or chores, hate it when she shout
"How you never to work early but one of the latest out?"
Pay the house, get a cut, they gettin' cut
'Round the school it's a pool of niggas that's stickin' up
Clowns dyin' to be down, try and live it up
I don't give a fuck
But fuck givin' up!
I mean really though, we just wanna feel this hope
Be woke, his friends is either broke or dealin' dope
Knows the results but it's cold, no one to coach
All this drive, what he supposed to do at the end of the road?
School of hard knocks, he enrolls
Why not? These is stories that he's been told
The choices this world gave him, and he chose
A man can only be what he knows
Talkin' king like through the green light, bust a mean right
Lean like hollow bottle green Sprite
Think twice, scheme me, wing flight
New thing color but a fiend white
It's the nightmare wit' yo' dream wife