Statik Selektah, Talib Kweli - Scratch Off lyrics

Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
Just to show that I
Inherited your gambling ways
Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
Please, buy me a lucky 7 so
We both can get paid
Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
When I put in all your numbers
At the store for the day
Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
Grandma can I get a scratch off?

It's all or nothing
Quit with all the bluffing
Soon as one of my cards decline
I'm in my wallet shuffling
Not so lucky, I guess that's how it's looking
I'm a pro and not a rookie
I school you all and I play hookie
These were my times with Sookie
Tea kettle whistling if she ever
Left the stove on
Old age had kicked in and she
Sent me for a store run
Gambling is in your blood
Ain't superstitious but you're definitely
Knocking on one if I win we all won
Behaving, imagine the good grandson
That I've been
Grandma give me the missing numbers
The cash that I need
Used to love the bodegas, now they ask for ID
Had my own two dollars just to
Get some scratchers for me
Around that time things were drastic
Worrying 'bout our finances
Didn't no one give them to me
I was the one who finance us
Said fuck whoever doubted
That's when I took my chances
Feel strongly about whatever I believe
In cause I'm a Cancer
Ain't an auction but they gave my mans a bid
Damn the CC8 just filled another bed
I guess we got some time to kill
And you gotta play the hands you're dealt
Fly

Voice of the unheard, louder than the bomb
Grandma's boy couldn't be prouder of my mom
For this historical perspective
A political education i hardly ever gamble
My risk was too calculated
Caught up in the traps
To be highly and discrete
Red dollar and rented dream and get
You followed by the feds
Cause this life is like a lottery
A loser then you'll probably be
Living with the ghost
Like Demi Moore with the pottery
Testing our morality when
Facing our mortality betting on a fallacy
Handing over our salaries
Natural born killer
They call us Mickey and Mallory
'Til our men become warriors and
Our women become Valkyries
Cussing like some sailors in the open seas
Mama got the silk for the
Apartment smelling like potpourri
Shopping for the groceries
Got her a pepsi cola and some coke for me
Making a quick stop out the OTB

Grandma, uh, and you knew
That's all we needed
That's why you plant a seed and you feed it
Repeat it and treat it and
We play against the odds
If we can only defeat it we'd see it
But we steady weeping whenever we read it
End up feeling cheated, we deserve better
Cause she done earned cheddar and I
Know she took her turn being Tina Turner
Let her be returned from her debtor
You'd know all she want is world
Peace if you met her
And one day we may travel
If you bought that scratch off
Like Payola at a DJ battle
And it paid off, then we made off like Madoff
And ate off that plate
Constantly concentrated like Adolf
Came all the way, four hours in your auto
Showed up at my school
Saying we hit the lotto
Popped a bottle then saw that we
Misread it at second glance
That's when I learned life isn't up to chance

Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
Just to show that I
Inherited your gambling ways
Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
Please, buy me a lucky 7 so
We both can get paid
Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
When I put in all your numbers
At the store for the day
Said grandma, can I get a scratch off?
Grandma can I get a scratch off?