Ace Lib - Southwick/ Cotter Homes Lyrics

Straight outta Louisville a civilized nigga named Ace Lib
That grew in these same streets that'll take kids
The shooter faceless, 10 karats my bracelet
If you ant live through nothing like this then don't say shit
Chopping pieces on my grandma dishes while she taking naps
Just so I can say I really lived everything I rapped
We was selling crack but not for lack options
Sometimes you gotta jump off the porch and get it popping
In retrospect i knew better but nigga blew cheddar
Just so I could get the brand new Jordan's with the patent leather
And all the yellow hoes I was feeling like Hugh Hefner
But that ain't how Maxine raise me told you I knew better
Or i was taught it
Young black I'm a target
Gun under my garment for any night that start shit
Violence is just how we responded it was second nature
You can't flex on em or put the tech on them that's how you deal with haters
FOE Block
I'm still down if my team ride
And yet pray that my kids never have to see my street side
I've stabbed guys still got some cases open
Awaiting the consequences of the decision that I've chosen
Still pull up and shoot boy I'm feeling like Derozan
Tryna make since of this mentality I've grown in
I'm just zoning get all my thoughts out
And hopefully I can save a nigga from getting chalked out
But until then
I'ma be thuggin behind a project building
Kickin this knowledge to all my ghetto children
Plottin on a way that we can make a million, million, Lord
But until then
I'ma be thuggin behind a project building
Kickin this knowledge to all my ghetto children
Plottin on a way that we can make a million, million, Lord
They call it trap cause its no way out the life
Smokers on the other hand escape they pain through the pipe
Or through surenges
Life is just fourth and inches
Do you punt it or do you punish incompetent defense
RIP painted on walls in back of the buildings
But every church in the world can't save our children
16 wit a Rolex I thought I was winning
21 most Of my niggas had a federal sentence
Who are we kidding
Can't see the forest for the trees
Not the life I wanted but really can't afford to leave
No community outreach the ones that did escape
Never come back to show the young niggas just how to make a way
But until then
I'ma be thuggin behind a project building
Kickin this knowledge to all my ghetto children
Plottin on a way that we can make a million, million, Lord
But until then
I'ma be thuggin behind a project building
Kickin this knowledge to all my ghetto children
Plottin on a way that we can make a million, million, Lord
Now I'm on some shit again
And I aint' even dreamin bout makin no cheese
I wanna see my muthaf*ckin bank account OD
But until then
I'ma be thuggin behind a project building
Kickin this knowledge to all my ghetto children
Plottin on a way that we can make a million, million, Lord
But until then
I'ma be thuggin behind a project building
Kickin this knowledge to all my ghetto children
Plottin on a way that we can make a million, million, Lord