Verbal Arteest - Raining Syntax Lyrics

Came a long way from that green house on Court street
Concrete steps but that wood made the porch creek
Before a chat ever snapped was A number to a pager
At the bodega spending stamps wit funny color faces...
Funny how only the blue ones survived
They gentrifying Hip-Hop but still the blues'll survive
Why the hyped up songs more formulaic each year
That's how you codify an art form and take it my dear...

The-diffrence-be tween-me and-you
My-bars are-Hot! I-speak the-truth
Because I got nothing lose and I done lost before
I'll build back up for the 4th time and get out of Nippur...
I Fail Falling forward, I Fail Falling Forward...

The-difference-be tween-me and-you
My-bars are-Hot! I-speak the-truth
Because I got nothing lose and I done lost before
I'll build back up for the 4th time and get out of Nippur...
I Fail Falling forward, I Fail Falling Forward...

Deacon had us on our knees praying in the vestibule
Then homie went to Essence no tickets to festival
Dropped out of Morgan State friends at home called me Hotep
When Drake was so far gone doing V-logs with Joseph

Karl Kani boots and Filas sneakers they had dumb jokes
Went to school slinging candy for the forces wit the gum soul
Cum home~Momma heard me spitting~said I'm gifted
Tape recorder for Christmas Mic from Radioshack came with it

Just Me Nices in basements unfinished yeah we was spitting
Stolen box of family dollar blank cassette was in our clinches
School felt like jail take a test n see why I say so
We had a plan~secure the bag
Spitting essays for pesos

Pants smells spongy
Crabbie patties in her bikini bottom
Focused before they riddling
Claiming that A-D-D the problem
Beside she paid straight cash for the mixtape
The Sky started raining syntax before the shift change

Came a long way from that green house on Court street
Concrete steps but that wood made the porch creek
Before a chat ever snapped was A number to a pager
At the bodega spending stamps wit funny color faces...
Funny how only the blue ones survived
They gentrifying Hip-Hop but still the blues'll survive
Why the hyped up songs more formulaic each year
That's how you codify an art form and take it my dear...

The-diffrence-be tween-me and-you
My-bars are-Hot! I-speak the-truth
Because I got nothing lose and I done lost before
I'll build back up for the 4th time and get out of Nippur..
I Fail Falling forward, I Fail Falling Forward...

When it rains it pours my family drenched while their under roofs
It's that way since them onesies and them UnderRoos
F*ck drowning in your sorrow just figure out what you gonna do
Cause your kids cant wear an eviction when they run to school

Lights all cut off~credit cards told you f*ck off
You contemplate pawning your wedding to get them bucks off
8th round toe to toe with Misfortune with our gloves off
I could take em 7, if someone would take these cuffs off...

I need my own stream sick of this run off
I need my own team cant be depending on these one offs
Got too many niggas I-O-U's that I cant dust off
So many dudes I helped make moves give me the brush off

But I remember~no oil for heat in winters
Cuddle in December~triple comforter shivers
This feels like a warm up compared to those times
Suicide drilling focused on goal lines

Came a long way from that green house on Court street
Concrete steps but that wood made the porch creek
Before a chat ever snapped was A number to a pager
At the bodega spending stamps wit funny color faces...
Funny how only the blue ones survived
They gentrifying Hip-Hop but still the blues'll survive
Why the hyped up songs more formulaic each year
That's how you codify an art form and take it my dear...

The-diffrence-be tween-me and-you
My-bars are-Hot! I-speak the-truth
Because I got nothing lose and I done lost before
I'll build back up for the 4th time and get out of Nippur...
I Fail Falling forward, I Fail Falling Forward...