4 My Dogs

Marley Ranks
Who Dat Mama? Marley Ranks

I wrote this song for all my dogs
In the penitentiary
Seem like somebody in my family
Locked up every other week
The irony my homies locked up
When they been sellin' the keys
All for the love of the presidential bill
Like Hillary
I wrote this song for my moms
While in the penitentiary
She sittin' at home on house arrest
Like "boy don't forget to mention me"
I bounced back smarter
Bounced back stronger
When I got back on them streets
My dog I pray you do the same at release
When they unchain you off yo' leash

I tapped into my inner G
Had to get a different energy
I really ain't kiddin' when I say
It's beginning to feel elementary
And I was still in grade school
When I took my first hit of the tree
If I could time travel I'd go back
And smoke with little ole me
Then tell myself
About when I got booked in 2013
And on that day
Stay on my P's and Q's dot the I's
And cross all my T's
And by the way my GPS
You out here way to lost in these streets
I needed 2 of everything
Like I was spellin' out Tennessee
I wrote this song for all my dogs
Stuck in the pound
From movin' them pounds
We had the trap house
Full of K's and 9's (Canines)
Really runnin' with them hounds
We kept the .44 Bulldogs off the leash
When we would go hit the town
And I can't even speak on the bones
We put in the ground
That won't ever be found
Just know that we never had a problem
We left unresolved
The irony I had that Judge on me
While runnin' round from the law
This for my homies that collect
And now they gotta collect a call
I pull that tech
And make 'em pause (Paws)
I got you playin' fetch with my dogs

I wrote this song for all my dogs
In the penitentiary
Big Homie Kannon said when you make it
Don't forget to mention me
Now that he a father gotta move smarter
Can't get caught out here in these streets
All for the love of the presidential bill
Like Hillary
I wrote this song for my OGs
In the penitentiary
Do the time don't let it do you
Just look at what it did for me
I bounced back smarter
Bounced back stronger
When I got back on them streets
My dog I pray you do the same at release
When they unchain you off yo' leash

I was Golden when I use to
Play the Retriever (Golden Retriever)
But I can't go back to my last hustle
My hood was really like a Shih Tzu
And who just hit up
My Jack? Russell (Jack Russell Terrier)
Bro just hopped off the Greyhound
Out the pit bull (Pitbull) like I got one
And I'm like I'm on my way now
Just meet me up
By the dock sun (Dachshund)
Me and my dog move state to state
Son trust (Suntrust) we was makin' bank
Had to treat the truck like a bus boy (Busboy)
That mean make the serve
And then changed the plates (License plate)
You either sell the drugs
Or you smoke the drugs
It really is the trap that most can't escape
It's a damn shame locked in that vault
Is how I really learned how to play it safe
Maturity will really
Make you eat ya own words
And suffer from the burn
Of the indigestion
Pickin' through ya mind
While you sittin' doing time you can really
Find the answer to any question
Depression, when you can't
Find time to sleep, and ya cell don't
Contain anything interesting (In to resting)
Fillin' up with anger
Got you fueled with aggression
And everything headed in usual direction
It's sad you more likely to take a life
While you locked up in
The prison system so hokey pokey
Take one step out and go right back in
And police they really don't like black skin
Constant reminder it's no way to win
So this for my dogs locked up in the pen
I had to put
All of my thoughts to the pen

I wrote this song for all my dogs
In the penitentiary
Got so many homies doin' time
Or in tune with time
As they rest in peace
The irony my homies locked up
When they been sellin' the keys
All for the love of the presidential bill
Like Hillary
I wrote this song for my OGs
In the penitentiary
Do the time don't let it do you
Just look at what it did for me
I bounced back smarter
Bounced back stronger
When I got back on them streets
My dog I pray you do the same at release
When they unchain you off yo' leash
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