SHELL

(album: RUFFS - 2022)

Dey never showed me a black God
Only a trap God, wanted sum zapp! So
After my last job I started to crack cards
I can adapt dog, I can dodge an attack
I attach parts, good kid in da city but raised in da maad parts

My blood on da asphalt
My brudda was half out
I told em what happened he ready crash out
My mama had passed out, yuh

Too woke to know what awake meant
I made it outta da basement
Too broke to know what a break meant
But not enough to do a break in
Still I don't take shit

Cause sometimes it was nigga with glistening golds
Dat I seen out here kickin in doors
Dat I seen out here risking dey soul

Is it earth or hell I can't tell
My niggas loading up K' shells
Thinking of holding a shell
I kno dat idea won't age well
Not good at acting my age well
From age 12 up to grade 12
Every reason to hate 12
Came appearent to me like a daycare

Bitch I'm orginial 9 gang
U can tell by da 9 chain
Who gone be here when da times change
Who gone be here when my mind change

Dey want me to pray to da most high
To me dats a crack head in city with closed eyed
A city with NO God impending a nosedive
Spinning da block and spending a long time pretending I don't cry
I'd be tellin a lie da day dat I tell ya I don't lie
Mom on da phone line
Remind me to tell u when I make it home now
I'm reaching my goals now
Da notes in my phone resemble a gold mine
I'm here on my own now, I thought a few goats would reach out show how
To maneuver da game, but it feel dey like goal keeping us closed out

I keep it on me fasho
It ain for show, it show, it's gone be da last shit u see before
A side of me dey never seen before
Keep da heat in da heat, da cold, da rain, da sleet, da snow
Delete a foe, impose defeat and fold em
He never been on dis street before
Chew before I swallow fruitful knowledge dat I seek
Shooter by da car door he like Cardo giving wings
Put dat gun on u like bar codes, if his card get low on cream
Nigga we all gone go out one day, make no difference if it's today
I kno my dawg been steppin on shit
If don't get caught he never gone quit
I kno dat fye been wetting up shit
Dem boys won't try dey catching on quick
Dese hoes gone slimesettin up licks
Dey know dey fine dey settin up hits
I know my mind been setting up tricks

Yuh

I been practicing pushin my brain
U start changing da way dat u look at shit
Den da shit u start lookin at change
Now u looking at change
I'mforever original 9 gang
U can tell by da 9 chain
Who gone be here when da times change
Who gone be here when my mind change