Follow the Wisdom

Lyrics

[Intro: Solomon Burke] But the part of me that wants to change Fights the part of me that tries [Verse 1: Che Noir] Yo, I'm top five, you can hear the proof when I spit a jewel Come on, y'all can't compare me to what these niggas do Selling drugs, that thing's apparent just to get us fooled Now the house so big, got a parachute to my living room The money good, but it can be a problem But I'm quick to put it on your head Bitch, I'm hands-free with drama We grew up with daddy issues 'cause we can't see our fathers And they waited too late to tell us about plan B's and condoms No respect for a nigga that do dirt with his mans And when he get caught He fold and he tell what he learned on the stand Stood in the fire so long I ended up burning my hand The fire would struggle, wrote a verse, now my word is like a fan Now I'm on XXL covers Niggas and bitches from colleges to the jails love us Just a chick from the hood that's doing Adele numbers Hard to get your respect unless your skin is a pale color Life wasn't prepared for us [Chorus: Solomon Burke and Scarface] The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow You had to hustle 'Cause that's how we was raised on my block And you stayed on your hop until you made you a knot The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow You had to hustle 'Cause that's how we was raised on my block And you stayed on your hop until you made you a knot [Verse 2: Che Noir] Uh, look Before I start my day, I gotta talk to God My brother had the streets at arms reach but still got a job Pain of the streets, it ain't worth seeing your daughters crying I was that daughter so, you'll never hear me glorify it On my high horse so I made me a chariot My family was enslaved by the gospel, but what's a slave when you're Harriet? I never knew we was trapped, pain made me aware of it 'Cause wisdom don't come from age, it comes pain and experience All that shit you was handed, I had to grind to have Momma from the streets so she had to hide the pass Momma always told me "Never follow in my footsteps" But I still follow with a magnifying glass Her and my step daddy eloped, ain't get married in the church He ain't my blood pops but he's been with me since birth When he was sober he would teach me and prepare me for the worst 'Cause wisdom's the type of wealth you can't carry in a purse [Chorus: Solomon Burke and Scarface] The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow You had to hustle 'Cause that's how we was raised on my block And you stayed on your hop until you made you a knot The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow You had to hustle 'Cause that's how we was raised on my block And you stayed on your hop until you made you a knot [Verse 3: Skyzoo] Like first a knot was made The purchases got exchanged You're able to play both hands? You throw yourself a block parade Well, the food is free and usually you get to watch the day But not to watch your roof, so you'd just be givin' your opps a day It's sort of like a modern-day Macbeth where all the product make the steps And the crown is handed down, it's usually why they wave a tech It's like one size fit all, for the hat and the strap both You call them heinous parallels for a cell, they that close But we was close enough to see it all [?] ran a free for all The engine on the two-forty-fives was like a breeding call We all just want to be part of the stories that's recited But never loud enough where it's the road where an indictment, and I surf them off the curb after I surf them off the windows It's three-two, one off the stool for your influentials What I'm meant to, there's no one, nobody did it this vividly And all I did was follow where the wisdom be, for real [Chorus: Solomon Burke and Scarface] The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow You had to hustle 'Cause that's how we was raised on my block And you stayed on your hop until you made you a knot The night has come and left me Just the light that you allow You had to hustle 'Cause that's how we was raised on my block And you stayed on your hop until you made you a knot