Laila’s Wisdom - Rapsody.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : M. Evans/D. Lamb/N. Simone/W. Irvine
[00:00.00] 作曲 : M. Evans/D. Lamb/N. Simone/W. Irvine
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[00:03.73]To be young, gifted and black
[00:24.05]Oh
[00:34.63]A better world
[00:36.98]A better world
[00:39.91]A better world
[00:41.37]If you ain’t know
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[00:42.31]Look don't worry bout anything they told you
[00:43.93]Remember what she said about winter and what the cold do
[00:46.88]Everything's a season and some things you gotta go through
[00:49.78]Believe me I don' seen it all, you're young talking to the old you
[00:52.74]When haters come around look em down tell em “we don't owe you”
[00:55.53]You gon lose some friends but those circles are better than the ovals
[00:58.20]A black man left the oval
[00:59.87]Keep that style you got soulful
[01:01.10]The best of the best gon fear you
[01:03.05]Sky's the limit see, I told you
[01:04.15]You gon be the difference between McDonald's,
[01:06.15]McDonald's, Burger King and Whole Foods
[01:07.10]Do your thang and slip thru ib em they ain't gon have no clue
[01:09.64]You won’t need no toll booths, they'll pay attention, Hov do
[01:12.98]They'll ask you for advice tell em the same thing i told you
[01:15.67]Should be a crime to be this fly and awesome
[01:18.81]And to think love is all it cost em
[01:21.73]Feel like Jordan this the ball that Pippen tossed em
[01:24.58]I'm the underdog and gold is what flossin’
[01:27.30]When they told me my chances of losing was higher than divorces
[01:29.91]You gotta know your worth and work ‘cus I can't force ya
[01:33.28]Growing up I shopped at Kmart and Ross’, celebrated every win
[01:37.20]And learned to learn from all my loses
[01:39.29]I never signed paperwork without reading the clauses
[01:41.77]My parents worked way too hard to not get no credit for it
[01:44.82]I'm a trip like Grayson Allen
[01:45.97]Y'all never made me valid
[01:47.62]I learn that from Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen
[01:50.47]I'm the other one them another ones screaming like Khaled
[01:53.29]We don't match up, ask my stylist
[01:54.72]I rock Nike and New Balance
[01:56.00]I drink water by gallons, y'all should call me captain
[01:59.01]I was told to be the flow and not follow it while y’all actin’
[02:02.20]I'm the better version of what you used to think and call talent
[02:04.73]I been bankin, check my balance
[02:06.30]You a bet away from skidrow
[02:07.68]I owe Sallie Mae but owe my people way mo’
[02:10.69]God rested on the seventh day
[02:12.28]And worked on me on day fo’
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[02:14.19]I’ve been killing for a long time
[02:15.07]My lawyers gotta caseload
[02:17.32]Yeah my lawyers gotta caseload
[02:19.44]I cracked the code, it's no longer safe for y'all
[02:22.49]Kujo still the scariest of all the dogs
[02:25.00]After that come all my dawgs
[02:26.78]Talent level’s thru the walls
[02:28.08]I'm Juggernaut, riding wit my car doh’ locked
[02:31.14]Coppers known to hang out on these kinda blocks
[02:33.44]Don’t get shot!
[02:34.22]They say we 3/5ths human, well the rest of me’s an autobot
[02:37.12]I’m really hot
[02:38.53]You should ask my team and dem
[02:39.92]Jamla’s still the squad and my confidence is thru the roof
[02:44.33]I appreciate the compliments
[02:45.56]Laila’s Wisdom, rest in peace. I love you dear
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[02:48.93]Yo, we good over here
[02:53.06]We good, I’m good man
[02:55.02]Yo, we good over here, here (here)
[02:57.11]We good over here here (here)
[03:00.42]Yeah, we good over here here uh
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[03:03.87]“If you wrote me a letter, I’ll probably make it a kite,
[03:06.74]I fly it in bad weather and pray it get struck by light.”