im over taxed and underpaid in salary blue collar work hard for same mentality new york state of mind slave to the grind zoning out in day time to escape reality refuse to face it when the musics playing im in a psychedelic hallucination tripping out on some curtis mayfield numb to the pain novocain how my face feel you seen that tape real the whole team know why we out in va sipping mojitos squash in eagles its swatting mosquitoes when youre rocking with the boys not in sloan cooking it up pot scheming on the stove watching my seeds grow you reaper just soul either punch in the clock either leave it alone me and job till got a seat at the throne to rise and fall understand that every good thing come to a heart ache but that aint gonna stop me im here until the end baby and if you choose to follow know that theres no shortcuts to the promise land but that wouldnt ever stop me im here until the end baby no i aint bout no games about my bi something low in the bucket you cant see i ride slow with the windows low and the beams high no l just a i dont give a fuck i call that man howard when that bitch crack your ass better duck tryina stack my paper up and cop a few dirties but my empire enjoy life with my like i said im tryina stack that bread no time for hungry ass hoe tryina my bread and any monkey ass disappear when your pockets aint fit a bunch of david blaines dealing with this kind of folks you wont have a thing 25 8 the boys stay on this grizzle main wont stop until my names surrounded by them shiny thangs  im unstoppable anything is possible leverage in my love overcoming any obstacle the type of love that put hate up in the hospital they tried to find they cure but the found it was inoperable came no summer you never knew winter you aint been a looser you aint a true winner it aint always is champagne dinners im about a buck 50 but i used to be mixing lunch meat with my scrambled egg the last thing i ate before i went to bed the first thing i ate when i woke up one minute eh i think about it i get choked up but i never compromise my integrity and cause of that a lot of niggas got ahead of me and now that youre falling off steadily and all the bullshit i went through is a memory