I Refuse Limitation (Explicit)

I Refuse Limitation (Explicit) - Goodie Mob/Backbone

One time

Uh for these freaky hoes I lust

But I'm still flickin' ashes

A lot of other motherf**kers snort dust

But that's they thang a lot of us fall victim somehow

But that's that game won't try to explain

From books to bricks

Now I look

Seen crooks and tricks caught up in the mix

Of everyday in every way but the right

I control the substance my people fiend for at night

Lord knows I do wrong

Sound like the same old song

A lot of niggas singing homeboys conceal your weapons

'Cause ain't gonna be no smokin' section in heaven

No more be buckin' yo luck seven eleven on the first roll

Don't let the streets rock and roll yo soul

Swats GA by way of cascade heights

Gunshots roadblocks sidewalks and ice

Sold me out for 3 5 grams of neighborhood clout

Now what the f**ks we bout

I'm back home from the bullshit

Puttin' in work

Meanwhile others dug ditches and covered

Themselves in dirt one squirt

And you locked down forever

Can't run from reality luring you closer and closer away

To the same old traps

Now you never learn from your mistakes

So now you wear this a** whoopin' wit' pride

What side you on

It wasn't no I in team

Only in your dreams saturated with schemes

Yeah you right

God gonna deal wit' ya fallin' from his grace

Rookie moves cops shift the game and 30 days

I'm blessed in the hole

But that's till I go to the state federal

Penitentiary

Yeah I could a did my time standin' on one feet

But see I f**ked up royally thought I was slick

Them herpes-havin' a** crackers

Changed my big check to six

Times wit' Dean Whitaker's sermon of the day

But when I go to sleep

I don't dream no more I just lay

A wise man knows his limitations concrete

Concrete like Greg Street

Sufferin' from a severe case of inner city blues

I ain't got no clues to which directions

I need to choose

This opportunity to gain is all I got to lose

'Cause I just can't settle for these streets shawty

I refuse

That's the sh*t I like Lord got the door

Shot down to the pavement

Remove yo hat under the ceiling of this building

A rebuff from the usher of sorts because

Most strive for the diamonds and overlook the gems

Got skimp wit yo bags boulders

Become shoulders to depend on

Which way to explore reform

Refrain we can't inflame

Every thought you walk through the trails is hell

Airborne for what clone me replace me wit' me

Another nation inside a nation out the land of Scots

Suction cups to test tube layer of skin

Supply the crust and we'll mix the fruit

Gun shows supplied me in the hour of need

Watch 'em bleed Aryan nation be the dealer

Now who's the killer

Yeah yeah yup yup that's the sh*t I like

That's the sh*t I like

Uh puttin' forth the effort to make a change

Not doin' a lot of talkin' bout it what's yo game

You slippin' you can't never do that

That's when you get jacked for

Yo life over emotions runnin' wild

Like salamanders swimmin' in southwest creeks

Feelin' incomplete another story livin'

You had it

Now you lost it wasn't worth it look what it costed

Yo life young ni**a

Didn't go out without a fight behind the gun trigger

You better think fast or get swept off yo feet

Ni**a it hurts to see these drugs deteriorate

The minds of knuckleheads

That want to be base heads

Don't say I didn't tell you

'Cause you gonna see in the future

I hope I don't have to shoot you if you switch

Went from hardcore to beggin' like a b**ch

Revolutions good to bad hoods to rags

Real niggas to fags

What's the news But I refuse to lose

Sufferin' from a severe case of inner city blues

I ain't got no clues to which directions

I need to choose

This opportunity to gain is all I got to lose

Now I just can't settle for these streets shawty

I refuse

Well I woke up this mornin' with the same frustration

From situations like these got a call

About some work

From one of them temporary agencies

No high school diploma or any college degrees

I can't enlist but they'll draft me

If there's a war overseas

Oh please of course I can slice some Oz's

But see I'm one of those aspirin MC's

And uh bills are due so at times

I'm doubtful and everyone disagrees

But I'd rather struggle on my feet

Than to live on my knees

So my uniform tight workin' all night at Mickey D's

Got about 90 dollars

And some change after the government

Get they fees

These minimum wages ain't enough to feed my babies

Purposely these limitations on black folks' opportunities

So I quit 'cause

I'm tired of being one of those overworked

Underpaid employees stop carin' at all went on

And did a few small burglaries

It seems like my faith done turned into forgotten memories

And I ain't gettin' away with nothing

Because I know He always sees

But see right now I need to see

How I can get this here d**e sold

I done stuffed in my pocket

As many rocks as it can hold

They gonna get high

So I'm a get my money even though it's freezin' cold

Now how many times you done heard this story told

Believe it or not

It's some very intelligent junkies

But dependencies is eatin' away at they souls like disease

Anyone can turn into somebody

Who covets and envies

Unequal economics can easily make you some enemies

And the crime rate never drops

So the cops ride around in threes

I knew he would have killed me

If I did anything but freeze

They found the rest of the d**e in some nearby shrubberies

In a dim lit room being questioned by these authorities

And they gave me some time in correctional facilities

And now my woman's gotta take on a man's responsibilities