[00:20.59]Uh-uh-uh  what up
[00:22.18]Uh  I'm tryna  what up
[00:24.21]
[00:25.22]Uh-uh  I'm tryna get something
[00:28.05]Uh-uh-uh  I'm tryna  what up
[00:29.61]
[00:30.50]I say  what up
[00:31.98]
[00:32.57]Uh-uh  I'm tryna
[00:33.71]Sometimes I wanna leave
[00:34.85]Sometimes I wanna cry
[00:36.00]Sometimes I hate to bear the truth
[00:37.67]Sometimes I wanna lie
[00:38.80]Sometimes I wanna school the youth
[00:40.21]Sometimes I wanna ride
[00:41.42]Sometimes I wanna not think
[00:42.65]Sometimes I wanna vibe
[00:43.90]Sometimes I wanna bump Tribe and zone out
[00:46.07]This song bout a young boy
[00:47.53]That's going wild inside
[00:48.74]When my world collide
[00:50.23]With your world where your girl
[00:51.73]And your kids reside
[00:52.97]We kill the facades
[00:54.20]We feel free to fly
[00:55.69]We're birds that reserve in the charismatic sky
[00:58.29]I care about my pride too much
[01:00.05]If my clothes is new
[01:01.19]If my ride is plush  if my hair is cut
[01:03.28]If my diamonds is crushed
[01:04.33]I look in the mirror  I'm trendy enough  Wrong
[01:06.20]
[01:06.95]Insecurity roams the black community
[01:08.99]Homes where kids must have jewelry
[01:11.31]The high school female need earrings and details
[01:13.93]So she can be cool to be amongst popularity
[01:16.61]The various name brands that reach the price scan
[01:19.58]That's not about the right price
[01:20.94]But more like the right scam
[01:22.26]To rule us all  confuse us all
[01:24.59]Hit the bank within five minutes and then withdraw
[01:27.01]
[01:27.68]Now let's draw the picture of a rapper with a chain
[01:30.81]In a Range that is not paid for
[01:32.92]My cousin from the South said he just bought him a house
[01:35.91]That lives around his neck like a white collar
[01:38.29]So why fast forward
[01:39.59]Then I rewind
[01:40.85]A time machine can help me double back to slavery times
[01:43.33]Picking cotton from a field that a white man own
[01:46.30]The blacker you are
[01:47.28]Farther you from the white man's home
[01:49.06]Negro spiritual zones gave us some type of sanity
[01:51.93]Before your vanity they parted our families
[01:53.45]
[01:54.61]They put us in hundred-degree shade
[01:56.64]And outside we bathed
[01:57.83]The more we were afraid
[01:59.27]The more they made rules
[02:00.56]And trapped our minds in the cage
[02:02.16]Our freedom was so fake
[02:03.52]Couldn't see it with the eyes
[02:05.02]Of Tracee Ross  uh
[02:05.95]And school was exempt
[02:07.35]See we couldn't have smarts
[02:08.79]And a smirk could get you hurt
[02:10.48]Wound diversed from a scar
[02:11.62]Four-hundred years of nothing
[02:12.85]Four-hundred years of suffering
[02:14.01]Four-hundred years of tears
[02:15.44]And tribulation  miseducation
[02:16.61]See what we facing is now coming
[02:18.47]Back to the roots
[02:19.52]Remember whips on our back and
[02:20.94]If we would run they would shoot
[02:22.45]Call us niggers and figured
[02:23.41]That we'd never lived in pursuit
[02:24.71]Of happiness
[02:25.36]We captured these feelings
[02:26.29]In things that we do
[02:27.42]Thought it's abstinence in slavery
[02:28.53]But we made it come to
[02:30.01]A modern perspective
[02:31.01]My shoe selection gotta be Louie
[02:32.86]Her handbag gotta be Gucci
[02:34.36]It's fake then she foobie
[02:35.57]She still bad though
[02:36.70]And her fake Gucci ain't that bad though
[02:38.67]We filling up the gas for Rollies
[02:40.72]Upgrade to twenty-sixes  out there riding Kobes
[02:43.20]My cousin from the South
[02:44.70]Slavery start in the South and I bet ya
[02:46.70]He overcompensates for the life of his ancestors
[02:49.26]So blame it on the four-hundred years we never saw
[02:52.09]The reason why the next four-hundred we gotta floss
[02:55.20]Slaves
[02:55.90]
[02:57.58]Uh  I say the four-hundred years
[03:02.06]We never had nothing
[03:03.57]
[03:04.94]Barely had clothes on our back
[03:06.94]
[03:09.67]It's the reason why
[03:10.36]When we get a little bit of change
[03:11.87]We over-exaggerate on our living expenses
[03:13.41]
[03:16.42]So if you get your first big check
[03:17.94]And you cop a chain before you buy a house
[03:20.98]You're a vanity slave
[03:22.05]
[03:23.18]If you're a female and you got four
[03:24.70]Five  six rings on your finger
[03:25.92]Four holes in your left ear and a nose piercing
[03:28.39]
[03:29.26]You're a vanity slave
[03:30.38]
[03:32.05]If you got an '02 Monte
[03:33.36]Carlo with twenty-fo's on it
[03:34.28]And on the back of the window it says
[03:36.36]
[03:37.37]"get on my level hoe"
[03:38.70]
[03:39.68]You're a vanity slave
[03:40.81]
[03:42.38]We all vanity slaves
[03:43.57]
[03:45.22]And with that being said
[03:46.49]
[03:47.77]Can somebody please tell me where the mall at
[03:49.83]
[03:51.28]I'm not from around here
[03:52.34]Hey Ali  where we at  Idaho
[03:54.21]
[03:54.95]Yeah nigga  you know the first of the month
[03:57.32]
[03:59.14]You know them checks come in
[04:01.50]I'm tryna get something  but what up