Mind over Matter - 38 Spesh, Ransom

Y’all niggas ask me why I’m up, I say the game is simple

And if I always be your crutch, you gon' remain a cripple

See, you’re worried about who came with you

I worry about the people not here

It’s clear that we ain’t got the same issues

I had three strippers named Crystal

38 tattooed on their nipples, they like the same pistols

There’s currency in my brains signal, commas and dollar signs

My mind resembles the same symbols

A closed mouth don’t get fed

So I’m vocal about the shit that I never had

I was born poor, we was all dealt the bad hand

So I brag about the shit that I wouldn’t grab

Niggas said my visions will never come true

I took off winning, I gues beginnings was never humble

I ball up 1s and let it fumble all over your bitch

For the ones that want to see my cheddar crumble

You ain’t never have to sell a bundle

Or bundle your commissary together to make better gumbo

I survived through the ghetto jungle

Now I got a place across the water, right by the tunnel

Huh!

Look, this is murder he wrote

Purposely float across the track of a fiend’s arm, verbally dope

Heard he was broke until he purchased a boat

Old school candy painted Cadillac with some burgundy spokes

When I was young, my best friends, I was serving their folks

Yeah, that’s how my brother taught me

Went on the for twenty grand 'cause I learnt from the GOAT

Paid no attention and the shit was costly

My bitch divorced me when the system lost me

Life’s a bitch, friends get jealous

They was jealous when they heard

Longer you hang, the further the rope

the cops trying to kill us 'cause they heard we was woke

Hard to be civil minded when the kid is blinded

Contract’s on my life, no nigga signed it

Let’s get reminded, harder than gin and tonic

When I spin Ebonics, you’ll get astonished

This nigga’s honest with a bit of polish

I told my kids I had to visit college

But I just had to do it big to get a bit of knowledge

Yeah!