As Fate Would Have It

“What if it doesn’t work out for you?”

“You don’t even got the money to get up out of the house do you?”

“Poor excuse of a man...”

“What are the odds it would happen again?”

(Lightning)

“Doesn’t strike twice my friend.”

It probably don’t get much better than this

Forever

For ever ever

For ever ever

I meant it

You hear the shit that

I put together? Not to mention

I should’ve quit when

They said my gift was

More like a pipe dream

I didn’t listen

I was jit when I

Made an executive decision ever since…

(What was that?)

I did what’s best for my interest don’t slip…

Imagine paying all that shit any attention

What would you do if you could see it in real life buddy?

Not only that but you could see what it feels like buddy?

Now that’s enough to make a n**** stay sleepless

You telling me doing this shit wouldn’t feel right buddy?

Thinkin’ I’m only on this bitch when I feel like buddy?

They would expose me

Rip it and bring light to it

N**** I’m chosen

What does it seem like buddy?

I mean for real what did you think it would be like buddy?

So before they pass judgment on the way that I got here

And make every excuse why they not here

Sayin’ if it wasn’t for my daddy then I probably wouldn’t

More about relationship and less about the work I put in

Listen to this shit before you form an opinion

About a n**** who wanted this shit as much as anyone

And only got it from working harder than everyone…

I still hear em’ all sayin..

“What if it doesn’t work out for you?”

“You don’t even got the money to get up out of the house do you?”

“Poor excuse of a man...”

“What are the odds it would happen again?”

(Lightning)

“Doesn’t strike twice my friend.”

It probably don’t get much better than this

2 Flowers from the Ghetto

Both growing up

One baby in the picture and another on the cusp

New money new city one came into the luck

Put both in a two-story crib in the cut

Late 90’s

Mid Summer

3PM

Incoming

Baby boy you should’ve seen him

9 pounds 10 ounces and a face that’s

Just like the Mother’s but he took the Father’s name Yup

Who would’ve thought?

Seeing the shit that he saw

Being the kid that he was

Never in trouble with Law

Having the shit that he had

Talking the way that he talks

Looking the way that he looks

Walking the way that he walks

Without a body to his name

Not a set that he could claim

Not a drug that he could sell

Not a single bit of shame

From Topanga to the Waves

A community with gates

Somehow he’d be the biggest muhhfucka in the game

And it’s all facts

I ain’t hiding my story man what you call that?

I’m with whoever that want it

No matter what

And they still ain’t coming how I’m coming

I ain’t ducking I ain’t running I ain’t gotta prove nothin’

Anybody got a problem;

say that shit

Anybody having doubts

Tell em’ play my shit…

Anything they got to say that’s it

And this should be the only time I need to address it

It worked out for me

Yea

More money but it’s bigger than amounts ain’t it?

No excuses I made

As fate would have it it happened again

(Lightning)

Struck twice on our name

It really don’t get much better than this

Yea

I just had to represent