Apollo Brown, Ché Noir, Skyzoo - Follow the Wisdom lyrics

But the part of me that wants to change
Fights the part of me that tries

Yo,  I'm top five
You can hear the proof when I spit a jewel
Come on, y'all can't compare me to
What these niggas do selling drugs
That thing's apparent just to get us fooled
Now the house so big
Got a parachute to my living room
The money good, but it can be a problem
But, I'm quick to put it on your head
Bitch, I'm hands-free with drama
We grew up with daddy issues 'cause
We can't see our fathers
And they waited too late to tell
Us about plan B's and condoms
No respect for a nigga that
Do dirt with his mans and when he get caught
He fold and he tell what
He learned on the stand
Stood in the fire so long I
Ended up burning my hand
The fire would struggle, wrote a verse
Now my word is like a fan
Now I'm on XXL covers
Niggas and bitches from colleges to
The jails love us just a chick from the hood
That's doing Adele numbers
Hard to get your respect unless your
Skin is a pale color
Life wasn't prepared for us

The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow
You had to hustle
'Cause that's how we was raised on my block
And you stayed on your hop until
You made you a knot
The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow
You had to hustle
'Cause that's how we was raised on my block
And you stayed on your hop until
You made you a knot

Uh, look
Before I start my day, I gotta talk to God
My brother had the streets at arms
Reach but still got a job
Pain of the streets
It ain't worth seeing your daughters crying
I was that daughter so
You'll never hear me glorifying it
On my high horse so I made me a chariot
My family was enslaved by the gospel
But what's a slave when you're Harriet?
I never knew we was trapped
Pain made me aware of it
'Cause wisdom don't come from age
It comes pain and experience
All that shit you was handed
I had to grind to have
Momma from the streets so she
Had to hide the pass
Momma always told me "Never
Follow in my footsteps"
But, I still follow with a magnifying glass
Her and my step daddy eloped
Ain't get married in the church
He ain't my blood pops but he's
Been with me since birth
When he was sober he'd teach me
And prepare me for the worse
'Cause wisdom's the type of wealth you
Can't carry in a purse

The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow
You had to hustle
'Cause that's how we was raised on my block
And you stayed on your hop until
You made you a knot
The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow
You had to hustle
'Cause that's how we was raised on my block
And you stayed on your hop until
You made you a knot

Like first a knot was made
The purchases got exchanged
You're able to play both hands?
You throw yourself a block parade
Well, the food is free and usually
You get to watch the day
But not to watch your roof
So you'd just be givin' your opps a day
It's sorta like a modern day Macbeth
Where all the product make the steps
And the crown is handed down
It's usually why they wave a tech
It's like one size fit all
For the strap both
You call them heinous parallels for a cell
They that close
But we was close enough to see it all
Ran a free for all
The engine on the two-forty-fives was
Like a breeding call
We all just want to part
Of the stories that's recited
But never loud enough where it's
The road where an indictment, and
I surf them off the curb after
I surf them off the windows it's three-two
One off the stool for your influentials
What I'm meant to
There's no one, nobody did it this vividly
And all I did was follow where the wisdom be
For real

The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow
You had to hustle
'Cause that's how we was raised on my block
And you stayed on your hop until
You made you a knot
The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow
You had to hustle
'Cause that's how we was raised on my block
And you stayed on your hop until
You made you a knot