Slow Your Roll

Told them boys to stop over fussin'

Told them boys there ain't no discussion

Told them boys I heard it all before

It ain't new to me

You got to show me somethin'

Act up 'fore I blow or somethin'

Blow for blow, toe to toe

I run my own show, but I am not known for duckin'

Told my homeboys to roll me somethin'

Start the night in the coldest cotton

Reminiscin' on back in the day

Before Isle of Dogs

And E3 was shootin'

In broad day risk their lives over nothin'

Dem boys were our older cousins

Went away, I came back

I heard the word mad, but I could not speak

'Cause it was too deep, I had to just hold my tongue in

Shoulder shruggin'

Lookin' over my shoulder, I told 'em slow your roll

When the roads are gunnin'

On top and the show was runnin'

These times it was over numbin'

All's fair when it's love and war

Bredder's actin' all cold and cunning

I was focused, thought my thought was comin'

Deep down, I knew my soul was burnin'

Sting a bee, in the sling, they stung him

Papa shots came through went wrong

Killed one, he survived the stunnin'

Pay back, got a release get runnin'

No point tryna talk him down

Can't tell these negros nothin'

Like

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

And let the foolishness go

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

There's more to life than you know

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

And let the youth them grow

Uh, youngers taking up arms

Youngers out to do harm

Like it's Afghanistan

Switchin' up bombs, kickin' up drama

Gotta handle these qualms

Chip a the top of their arm

Someone ring the alarm

Ringing shots on the com

Nothing left in their eyes

Lost the love and the charm

Ain't no Koran

And they mentally scarred

They ain't wishin' on stars

They ain't readin' no Psalms

Or praying for peeps, they playin' for keeps

Future's bleak, they keep the heat in their palms

Compete and beef for post codes and streets

They don't even own yards

Best believe they go hard

So Bredder's got locked up

'Cause there ain't no potluck

Then developers rock top

Settin' up shop, got the whole place locked

And they all got caught, and the hood got shot

And the natives crocked, and the ends got boxed up

Then the prize got knocked up

Foreign investment, raised  and the stock ops

So the rent got propped up

And it kept gettin' top top

So the heart got ripped out

And rinsed out, some got shipped out

Got kicked out

Few of them stayed, but the rest they just dipped out

Took the quick route

Power, money, and big clout

Is what it's about

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

There's more to life than you know

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

And let the youth them grow

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

Slow your roll and get dough

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