Seen a Lot

I done seen a lot
Niggas out here running from the cops
Only knew to get it off the block
Nigga I done seen a lot
Every other day a body drop
But you still gotta get the Giap
Homie I done seen a lot
Shorty only wanna give you box
Cause ya car ain't gotta top
Look I done seen a lot
Shit, this ain't the life we chose but this is the life we know
Fa sho

Cops pull me over ain't no searching the V
I was street dreaming like Nas tryna purchase a ki
This street life a facade, get emerged in the beef
I'm Martin's dream Malcom's purpose was me
Niggas looking for hope, we the "have nots"
Funny that's the same thing we be pulling out that glass pot
To make it sell
In the land where the sinners dwell
We pray for heaven but remember hell
This is on the daily
Cops Wanna arraign me, see me in state greens
Freddy Kruger they just take dreams
Turn em to nightmares right there
This is cinematic
I Niño Brown in his dinner jacket minus all the rattin'
With Nate in lower east side Manhattan
We just tryna bring that feeling back then get it off the back end
Really known to get cracking I was letting them shots go
When you was still playing with block yo

I done seen a lot
Niggas out here running from the cops
Only knew to get it off the block
Nigga I done seen a lot
Every other day a body drop
But you still gotta get the Giap
Homie I done seen a lot
Shorty only wanna give you box
Cause ya car ain't gotta top
Look I done seen a lot
Shit, this ain't the life we chose but this is the life we know
Fa sho

Traumatized from gun shots and police raids
Cant focus on paying dues when I ain't never been paid
Easy to lose sight you cant see a better way
Reason why souls keep getting sold instead of saved
Seen suckas sacrifice it all just to get licked
Hand on a stick, all that's left cuz they dropped the ball
Hard to swallow the truth when ya taste don't match the proof
100 or better like my cheddar aged in the booth
Seen Alley cats try to claw they way out, but got clipped
Birds fly wit no wings, snakes slither wit no grip
Puppets pull strings, ride waves wit no ships
Lost at sea cuz the vision, wasn't anchored in gifts
Seen curtains closed soon as actors took the stage
Aired out in a rage, no instrument to gauge
The pressure trying to measure proximity to a stretcher
Magnetos with the metal, trying to X the professors

I done seen a lot
Niggas out here running from the cops
Only knew to get it off the block
Nigga I done seen a lot
Every other day a body drop
But you still gotta get the Giap
Homie I done seen a lot
Shorty only wanna give you box
Cause ya car ain't gotta top
Look I done seen a lot
Shit, this ain't the life we chose but this is the life we know
Fa sho

Shit I seen a send a shooter to a therapist
School system turning students into terrorists
Got PTSD like I'm a Vietnam veteran
The pharmacy be hooking heroes on the heroin
Make heroines sterile and they Killin babies
God ain't made no mistakes so it ain't no maybes
I dun got so much love Negus started hating
Had to cut my own dog off he caught the rabies
Tried play me
Biting at tha hand that's doing that chefin' God bless 'em
Waiting on me when he should be waiting tables time's precious
Hard times negus hard headed Neva wanna listen
Til it's hard time we want tha time lessened on tha sentence
Who wouldn't when u feel u fell victim to the system
I'll never fail cuz when I fall I've always risen
What we witness didn't make us but it shapes us
I'm modelled after the creator I'm just saying cuz

I done seen a lot
Niggas out here running from the cops
Only knew to get it off the block
Nigga I done seen a lot
Every other day a body drop
But you still gotta get the Giap
Homie I done seen a lot
Shorty only wanna give you box
Cause ya car ain't gotta top
Look I done seen a lot
Shit, this ain't the life we chose but this is the life we know
Fa sho