The Long Way - Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko

Mama told me get it and I did

Make a beautiful livin' for my kids

Man, I’m really in love with my gig

Wasn’t always known I couldn’t take the throne 'till I raced for home and I slid

For my labels flown where I lived (KC)

But the Yates was growin' in my biz (Yeah)

And I couldn’t even afford Reebok’s

It was Payless shoes and hole-y socks

Then I started to earn G-knots, screamin' F-T-I on TV spots

Livin' the lovely life we chose

Still I’m livin' it by street codes

Pain and poverty put these flows in Beast Mode

Here we go

The road to my success from here was not a block away

On the coast they told me I’ma part with Travis, not today

We just wanted what’s hot to play

But they gave me no slot to slay

Even though I’m not Lecrae, every day Tecca Nina would drop to pray

On my knees in a cot

There was multiple beds in my spot

So let the champagne pop, everybody feelin' my gang-gang lots

Took a lot of hard work to get guap, when you comin' from a scarred turf,

could be stopped

From the hurtful dirt to the top

Yeah we gonna celebrate today 'cause we got

Let the song play (We got it)

'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)

They know we get that grown pay (We got it)

Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)

The long way

Too big and too ugly, would you ever love me?

Every city we visit, we get it, but people they look at us funny

I feel like I’m way too fat, but what I’m packin' is making them kitties get

after 'em

They hearing me flippin' and rip the back up out the track, then they trackin'

a pack of 'em

Applause, applause, now we sell it enough to get our house and our cars up

Gotta get them bars up to be part of the upper echelon and hit the stars up

And we did it (okay)

Me and Nina stay committed to our art, we always doin' our part

We get it (okay)

And we knew we gettin' the cheese or we siezin' our G’s up, Jesus

Only breaking from making 'em rock

The pushin' manuever been making the block

Indusin', I’m cool when I’m oozin'

I’m cruisin' the planet, they think I’m faking a lot

I gotta get to the money, gotta get to the money, and they think I’m making a

lot

I’m keepin' a millimeter pilly under the tummy for dummies, if they wanna plot

New money, I ain’t trying to save, 'cause I just made it

Look at my royalty state, thank God for the ones who gave it

Lots of props for the ones who made it

'Cause this road ain’t paved

Sippin' till I’m elevated

We made it, so we gon'

Let the song play (We got it)

'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)

They know we get that grown pay (We got it)

Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)

The long way

Yeah, we started this Strange Music in Trav’s basement

Now we gonna have our fifth Strange building because we had patience

And I got all these mass payments with a mad cadence

Kill it when I rip it up, I’m makin' 'em listen, not pickin' me up,

and I never have a cash craving

We appreciate this, so we create hits

See me lay this, inebriated

And we be faded, indeed we stay lit

From the oddest, to people listen, and look at me Godish

Not a time for Nina to be modest

People celebrate with me 'cause we got it

Let the song play (We got it)

'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)

They know we get that grown pay (We got it)

Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)

The long way