Tip the Scale - Intellectual

[Chorus: Dice Raw]

Homicide or suicide, heads or tails

Some think life is a living hell

Some live life just living well

I live life tryna tip the scale my way

My way

[Verse 1: Black Thought]

Yo, I'm always early, I never take off

'Cause I've got a job: rob Peter to pay Paul

Now, I realize it's the winner that takes all

Do what I gotta do because I can't take loss

Picture me, living life as if I'm some animal

That consumes its own dreams, like I'm a cannibal

I won't accept failure unless it's mechanical

But still, the alcohol mixed with the botanical

I guess I be referred to the owners' manual full of loners

Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners

Soldiers of the streets with eighth-grade diplomas

And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus

Look, let he without sin live without sin

Until then, I'll be doing dirty jobs like swamp-men

Counting the faces of those that I might've been

It's like living that life, but I won't live that life again

[Hook: Dice Raw]

Homicide or suicide, heads or tails

Some think life is a living hell

Some live life just living well

I live life tryna tip the scale my way

My way

[Verse 2: Dice Raw]

Lot of niggas go to prison—how many come out Malcolm X?

I know I'm not; shit, can't even talk about the rest

Famous last words: "You under arrest"

Will I get popped tonight? It's anybody's guess

I guess a nigga need to stay cunning

I guess when the cops coming, need to start running

I won't make the same mistakes from my last run-in

You either done doing crime now, or you done in

I got a brother on the run and one in

Wrote me a letter—he said, "When you coming?"

Shit, man, I thought the goal's to stay out

Back against the wall, then shoot your way out

Getting money's a style that never plays out

'Til you in a box, and your stash money's paid out

The scales of justice ain't equally weighed out

Only two ways out: digging tunnels or digging graves out

[Hook: Dice Raw]

Homicide or suicide, heads or tails

Some think life is a living hell

Some live life just living well

I live life tryna tip the scale my way

My way

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Hook: Dice Raw]

Homicide or suicide, heads or tails

Some think life is a living hell

Some live life just living well

I live life tryna tip the scale my way

My way