I Can Tell

I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell Ooh, I can tell, baby, I can tell You ain't told no tales, you ain't told no tales Yeah, gone out of your way, you know we can tell Yeah, I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell I can tell by the night tales and the dry spells All the wrong ones and the right things to stay away from And how we took off and how we on top And how we won't fall, how we going up Or how we came up, or how we came up It all started in the basement Was an attic, but we called that - the basement Bass used to break all my mommas vases Unc' shot my first 8 then - I probably wasn't eight then Always had the gas like I broke wind They said my way of making dollars never made sense Come take a dive, a waterfall in the deep end I can tell you 'bout the nights out in Fort Bend I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell, yeah You ain't got no tales, you don't-, mhm I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell (yeah) No, you don't tell, yeah-ah-ah (yeah) Yeah, I can tell 'bout the night tales And all the dry wells, and all the long roads And all my ideas before the cornrows (straight up) How we came up and how we came down Going donuts, coffee couldn't help now (La Flame) How we zoned out, made it out the wood now And what it do when they wanna be your friend now (oh, no) How to get it, how to live and get it in now How to go from scraping pockets, making his demands now I been impulsive, non-emotional, staying humble 'bout it (yeah) Tilt the posture, sick, pass the bottle (yeah) Five-o-four hot boys, minus the bad rap like Silkk the Shocker (yeah) But I'ma pull up the silk, to shock her with the silk - you know I been a rocker, dripping milk and knockers Take it up another notcher, take it up another notcher I top a, pop a pill, pop a seal to forget about you I'll bumbaclot you, bumba-bumba blocka shot you Bling and bang, a bang a rapper Bangarang, I brought my money back Orangutan diamonds hanging on my neng-a-lang - hanging on my dang-a-lang (straight up) I can tell, baby, I can tell I can tell, baby, I can tell, yeah You got no tales, you ain't-, mhm I can tell, baby, I can tell (hoo, hoo) I can tell, baby, I can tell (how 'bout I come over there) I can tell, baby, I can tell (all of them - can tell) I can tell baby, I can tell (all of them - can tell) No, you don't tell