Royce da 5'9" - Gottaknow lyrics

(Hold up) presenting to you
The President of the United States
The bullet being lodged an inch
Away from his heart, reagan
Is launched into the operating room
And tells his doctors
‘I hope you’re all Republicans’

Cash rules everything around me
I ain’t claiming I’m street
I’m just saying everything that
Surrounds me is concrete
In the bubble-eyed ride all because
I bubble like Don P
Right beside me’s a dime piece
College girl looking ‘bout as good as I sleep
That’s cause I keep it low
The opposite of high key
Y’all niggas got the wrong idea
‘bout what’s really going on, out here
Y’all weird, I see, they told you
‘Keep your ears to the streets’
Y’all niggas laying down and y’all ears
Out here in these streets
I guess you took it literal
Guess the only code you
Live by’s forget-it-code
Uh, if I should get my own guilty verdict
May the next man learn from it, then flourish
You could put it on the news
You could put my face
On the front of a shirt in the latest video
Then blur it
Y’all niggas fucking with the next nigga
Bitch mostly attracted to her cause she
The next nigga bitch one of my niggas made a
Name for killing niggas
Now he on the slayin' spree for Dilla niggas
I call it the nigga nitch
Life is set up for you to dig a ditch
God is looking down on all
Being carried by the crisp pallbearers
Like, just ball, player
You ain’t even gotta pull a trigger
You can still assist
Imma keep it real as this

Got to know when to row from the madness
Got to know when to give these niggas passes
Got to know when to hold ‘em
And when to fold ‘em
Got to know when to beats niggas asses
Got to know when the money ain’t good money
Got to know when somebody ain’t good for ya’
Got to know when to open and when to close
When being silent exposes
And when it’s golden
Got to know all the got to knows
Got to know all the got to knows

God made us niggas
Then made us all breakable
Then gave us all decision making that’ll
Make or break a nigga
People tryna blaze with you
Just so they can lace a nigga
All because of public sensationalism
With brothers with faces that people
See and can relate to
When the place where the
Foundation of eating’s
Higher population is based on popularity
Gotta be careful where you place your wisdom
All it takes is just one
Conversation where you unbeknownst
To the fact you’re talking to an abomination
At the wrong place, at the wrong time
With the wrong crime taking place
That’ll put you away for a long grind
Where it’s locked where it’s not safe unless
You know them combinations
Yeah, it’s just a way a man to be taken
By the same thing that took his brother
We don’t learn from each other
We learn to look the other
Way when one of us in trouble
That karma looking to catch you, it’s patient
It’ll wait till you think you would
Love to come get you
Cause it know that women been the downfall
Of men ever since pussy was discovered
Dearly beloved
You soul searching for nothing
Just follow the instincts the
Lord versed you with, historically
That feeling that you get in your gut been
Getting ignored more than that poor person
Who’s living under the gun in this cold
Cold world that we live in
That’s under the imminent control of the
Consumer and indigenous war merchants
More religion and more churches, doctors
More nurses
Cause it’s the American way to make anything
That’ll finish you or drop you, for purchase
Who said I couldn’t buy my way into heaven?
All I need is a bottle, a couple dollars
A couple people that’ll keep me company
And who love misery as much as me
You got to know your pedigree
Got to be yourself at all times
Your true self at all times
Ain’t gon hesitate to
Let you know when you should let it be
A lot of these brothers done
Died tryna follow their pride
Gotta know the alert signs, them butterflies
As reliable as your first mind, genetically

Got to know when to row from the madness
Got to know when to give these niggas passes
Got to know when to hold ‘em
And when to fold ‘em
Got to know when to beats niggas asses
Got to know when the money ain’t good
Got to know when somebody ain’t good for ya’
Got to know when to open and when to close
When being silent exposes
And when it’s golden
Got to know all I got to know
Got to know all I got to know