$lick Tha Rula - Painting Pictures

All the blood, sweat, and tears I've been grinding all my life
And I know they see me shining so they try to dim the light
Now the money getting longer I remember shit was tight
I been changing shit around turn the wrongs into the rights
If you ain't leveled up already I don't wanna hear advice
We ain't have no silver spoon all I know is sacrifice
One ear right and right out the other sound nice
You only live once feel I did it more than twice
They wanna tell me how to live but on the same old shit
I be hearing rumors bout me like who told you this
I'm a brand new nigga, still the same old slick
Don't forget I move with it got the same old sticks
They used to laugh tables turn, now they say, oh shit
And I ain't sitting around broke you know I'm gone get
Built this shit up from the ground and that's brick by brick
So I don't got nothing to prove I don't owe you shit
Uh Get this shit the hard way
And I got it out the mud plus my dreams long as hallways
They wasn't really seeing what I was seeing fuck it, had to part ways
Put them in my rearview cause this journey is a long way
From scribble scrabble now I draw between the lines
It's gone take a little longer cause I'm working from behind
I ain't tripping cause I'm patient just a little over time
I got homies, family members rooting for me from the sky
When I heard that woo woo died It had me sick to my stomach
It hurt me real bad we was supposed to run up a hundred
Know that shit felt like a dream cause I ain't seen it coming
In a few months, before that I done lost my grandmother
I be acting like shit good shit done took a toll on me
Remember people do you like clothes they quick to fold on you
I'm not happy when I'm broke rather be sad than Rolls Royce's
Better blow that money living You can't die and hold on it
Long road ain't giving up I can't even quit
And I be tired of taking losses I can still win
Like I don't got no nerves no more I don't feel niggas
And it's hard to break me down cause I'm built for this
Painting these pictures see my colors
If I don't do nothing make sure I go and get some money
I work hard for what I got and you ain't take nothing from me
So don't come around asking I ain't got nothing for you
They say the early bird gets the worm I ain't been to sleep yet
Was sleeping on them floors it was nowhere else to sleep at
About a dollar in a dream if you don't work how you gone be next
I got a different hunger I ain't know what I would eat next
Straight from public housing right up out them p-jects
Can't wait till I hit the clear port we taking p-jets
Fail to plan and you plan to fail ain't no retest
If I fail just gone try again I'll be back
Yeah, let's kill em' with success cause they live off failures
And I'm only getting older so I can't even move reckless
I'm tryna motivate these niggas why they acting rebellious
Case a nigga out of line I got it right by my pelvis
Yeah, I keep that thing with me, nigga who can I trust
Whatever to see my kids so make it home is a must
Eyes open, looking sharp like I stay in a tux
I start the car before I get in but I'm used to the bus
And them hard times left scars, that shit changed me
Boy turned man real fast shit made me
New goals, new dreams that I'm chasing
Chase hoes, no way I chase paper
And I wasn't given much just took what they gave me
I ain't even rich somehow they still hate me
Tryna do right, still sinning like I'm in Vegas
Everybody can't see the pictures that I'm painting
Long road ain't giving up I can't even quit
And I be tired of taking losses I can still win
Like I don't got no nerves no more I don't feel niggas
And it's hard to break me down cause I'm built for this
Painting these pictures see my colors
If I don't do nothing make sure I go and get some money
I work hard for what I got and you ain't take nothing from me
So don't come around asking I ain't got nothing for you
Painting these pictures see my colors

Written by:
Kaseem Allah

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