Skyzoo, The Other Guys - 100 to One lyrics
[Skyzoo, The Other Guys - 100 to One lyrics]
Middle of ‘84 when opportunity heard me
Said she had to sift through the
Crowd but she preferred me
Dying for attention but living
In it concerned me waited me out
Wanted to see if it would discourage me
Almost, but shout out to
Patience first and foremost
Gave me more time to do away with my morals
Like "fuck am I to do with these?"
Used to hide behind them in
The line of scrutiny
It wasn’t new to me that
I can change all this i just needed a lane I
Could play in accordance with
Wade in the water shit
God’s gonna trouble the waves when
All the water hit
I just need enough for this pot
That I can boil with
So dear God, save me an ounce or two
Whether we talking water or we
Talking what powder do blasphemy right
But shit I’m still asking you like
"we can even all of these odds
From what massa’ was like", for real
‘Cause there’s money here to be made though
Devils pull up in plain clothes
Black dreams with these Anglos
It’s best to act like you ain’t know
Avi told me be grateful
My Umi told me to keep the gate closed
Leave whatever’s in the streets from
Outta this safe home
That I built with these same hands
That kept your plate full
I cleaned my plate then took her car
To see Avi and convince him that
What I put in a jar could have me back here
Tomorrow copping double
These pebbles became a goldmine
Under that rubble
And nah I’m not the same kid coming
Here begging you for a couple grams
Re-ing up off of singles
Is hard to understand
Reed gets it, money is money and
Won’t a soul see it different
And I ain’t mean to pivot
But yo if Lee doesn’t get snatched
Mugshot attached
Then I wouldn’t have been on
Their radar as a "perhaps"
Like "perhaps he can be the mule
That we can feed this through
He seems like he the type to
Keep free from the news"
But Lee was doing me a favor
After like 20 others i was the only child
Who naturally wanted brothers
There was Lee and then another
Shout to Mrs hamilton
Kev’ already was who he was
You couldn’t manage him
My motto forever is "the closer
You stand together the
Harder it is to see who you standing with"
It’s funny how Kane being away
Left Kev running free with cocaine leading
The way to his name seeing a grave
Look at life
One Kane could’ve stopped the other
And I fucked around and dropped my brother
Accidents with purpose
Judas is never Judas on the surface
Same apply to Reed but my
Deed on this purchase
Is a weekly occurrence off
An invisible contract
My gun tucked and my arms
Back, I’m comfortable now, but not at all
They say the room echoes the more
That you got it all
My mama said her worst day was
When she got a call saying I’m in a cage
Make a lion out a panther
Killing how he was raised
County blues will turn a king to
A dot on a page and my temporary fear was
Just hiding my rage, for real
‘Cause there’s money here to be made though
Devils pull up in plain clothes
Black dreams with these Anglos
It’s best to act like you ain’t know
South Central calamity
Water to wine should you go
Hand to hand with me
Look like the same hands that
Wanted to abandon me
But all was forgiven the moment
That you ran to me
Run like the numbers they throwing
At us for counting more
Where less on the scale lead to
Them kicking down your door
The crown yours when they’re
Creating laws on you
And the diamonds embedded in it
Turn into thorns on you, like
Five grams of rock, 500 grams of powder
The line in the sand and
Who’s standing over ours
The tipping point is you
Copping for your survival
And all of that privilege falls beside you
Idols become rivals
And then they can turn into your partner
Like them so called Villanueva martyr’s
But Olso is solid, and we learned to be cool
But his bitch is the reason
My three turned into two
Like if my foot’s on the
Line and I’m Spencer Haywood
I’m just a kid from outside
That’s tryna make good
College dreaming I was beaming
Tryna play good but shit I jumped off the
Steps because it pay good
Simple as that cuz
‘Cause there’s money here to be made though
Devils pull up in plain clothes
Black dreams with these Anglos
It’s best to act like you ain’t know
Said she had to sift through the
Crowd but she preferred me
Dying for attention but living
In it concerned me waited me out
Wanted to see if it would discourage me
Almost, but shout out to
Patience first and foremost
Gave me more time to do away with my morals
Like "fuck am I to do with these?"
Used to hide behind them in
The line of scrutiny
It wasn’t new to me that
I can change all this i just needed a lane I
Could play in accordance with
Wade in the water shit
God’s gonna trouble the waves when
All the water hit
I just need enough for this pot
That I can boil with
So dear God, save me an ounce or two
Whether we talking water or we
Talking what powder do blasphemy right
But shit I’m still asking you like
"we can even all of these odds
From what massa’ was like", for real
‘Cause there’s money here to be made though
Devils pull up in plain clothes
Black dreams with these Anglos
It’s best to act like you ain’t know
Avi told me be grateful
My Umi told me to keep the gate closed
Leave whatever’s in the streets from
Outta this safe home
That I built with these same hands
That kept your plate full
I cleaned my plate then took her car
To see Avi and convince him that
What I put in a jar could have me back here
Tomorrow copping double
These pebbles became a goldmine
Under that rubble
And nah I’m not the same kid coming
Here begging you for a couple grams
Re-ing up off of singles
Is hard to understand
Reed gets it, money is money and
Won’t a soul see it different
And I ain’t mean to pivot
But yo if Lee doesn’t get snatched
Mugshot attached
Then I wouldn’t have been on
Their radar as a "perhaps"
Like "perhaps he can be the mule
That we can feed this through
He seems like he the type to
Keep free from the news"
But Lee was doing me a favor
After like 20 others i was the only child
Who naturally wanted brothers
There was Lee and then another
Shout to Mrs hamilton
Kev’ already was who he was
You couldn’t manage him
My motto forever is "the closer
You stand together the
Harder it is to see who you standing with"
It’s funny how Kane being away
Left Kev running free with cocaine leading
The way to his name seeing a grave
Look at life
One Kane could’ve stopped the other
And I fucked around and dropped my brother
Accidents with purpose
Judas is never Judas on the surface
Same apply to Reed but my
Deed on this purchase
Is a weekly occurrence off
An invisible contract
My gun tucked and my arms
Back, I’m comfortable now, but not at all
They say the room echoes the more
That you got it all
My mama said her worst day was
When she got a call saying I’m in a cage
Make a lion out a panther
Killing how he was raised
County blues will turn a king to
A dot on a page and my temporary fear was
Just hiding my rage, for real
‘Cause there’s money here to be made though
Devils pull up in plain clothes
Black dreams with these Anglos
It’s best to act like you ain’t know
South Central calamity
Water to wine should you go
Hand to hand with me
Look like the same hands that
Wanted to abandon me
But all was forgiven the moment
That you ran to me
Run like the numbers they throwing
At us for counting more
Where less on the scale lead to
Them kicking down your door
The crown yours when they’re
Creating laws on you
And the diamonds embedded in it
Turn into thorns on you, like
Five grams of rock, 500 grams of powder
The line in the sand and
Who’s standing over ours
The tipping point is you
Copping for your survival
And all of that privilege falls beside you
Idols become rivals
And then they can turn into your partner
Like them so called Villanueva martyr’s
But Olso is solid, and we learned to be cool
But his bitch is the reason
My three turned into two
Like if my foot’s on the
Line and I’m Spencer Haywood
I’m just a kid from outside
That’s tryna make good
College dreaming I was beaming
Tryna play good but shit I jumped off the
Steps because it pay good
Simple as that cuz
‘Cause there’s money here to be made though
Devils pull up in plain clothes
Black dreams with these Anglos
It’s best to act like you ain’t know