Aspirations of higher living

Aspirations of higher living

Chorus:

Aspirations of higher living

Spending time wise…

Energy is what I’m giving,

Man cause time flies…

And =I= want to be

On top of the world

Diamond game, fuck the fame

My minds a Black Pearl.

Aspirations of higher living

Man I got to get paid

Spending my time and energy

For a spot in the shade

I’ll take it today

I desiderate to be on top

My Black Pearl is working on a plan and a plot.

My life full of struggle =man=,

was founded on broken dreams…

Aspiring to live higher,

Planned with money from plotted schemes…

To =elevate= and live higher and fired up…

This world is a land mine…

it’s set up to blow up.

It’s some fucked up shit,

we came equipped with a third strike…

And the crab mentalities hold me down, but I take flight…

Because the cleaver endeavor,

Whether it =be=… that I’m doomed to my death…

I’ll take steps in a direction that’s shaky.

It’ll either break me or make a man.

Get up to stand up, get your ass up and stand up.

Standing on my own two…

Entreprenuing, to doing what I want to do

Climbing these ladders of success on Saturdays

Doing it on my time,

night times or holidays…

Loving the money that don’t love me,

Man it’s the root of all-evil.

Pulling stunts just to keep it,

like I was Evil Kanival.

Black Bo’s trying to make a dollar out of =fifteen cents=

Spending my time wise and energy =when=

I figured out I couldn’t get those back…

So now I’m reaching to them stars for my Miller Stack…

I can‘t stop reaching for the top until my heart stops.

Man I got to get paid.

Laying down my destiny

In front of me…

The sign says, “Move this way”

I cannot play outside with the rest of the kids.

I got to handle my business

Keep it cracking

Put in my =bid=

=Shiiiiit= there might be pitfalls and the brick walls – all in my way,

But I’m bound to see a brighter day

And have it my way.

Like Burger King – I’m grilled fresh and ready to eat.

Hop out of the hot seat

I got =places= to go and people to =meet=

Feet be moving to the shit that I =SPIT= out.

Man how can I sit down?

If I don’t have what I need – I pought.

Fire comes out of my mouth

I’m ready to fly south

“It’s Cold Out Here!”

I sip a beer and get the fuck out!

Got to get ta getting’

Ain’t no bullshitting for me.

Like Muhammad Ali…

I float like a butter fly and =sting – like – a bee=

High like trees

In the shade working for cheese

No peanuts for me

I got to be free

And spend my time and energy =wisely=

Cautious and ready for a road block

On every way.

I turn around and touch the ground

Look up and take a leap of faith.

Up up and away…

I aspire to have it all -- And if I fall

Like Alyiah said, I get my ass up and dust my ass off.

It’s just a habit when grab it (he’s savage)

Steering wheels – I Zig and I Zag

Stepping on the gas – to get to where I need be real =fast=

Never last, but if last is first….

I’ll take the streets and drive real slow

Five miles an hour down the block

Waving at the 5-O.

I =go= à 51/50 for a chance to spit you a verse.

Helping you reach in your purse

Or wallet to give me a burst.

Into the stratosphere

On top of the globe.

It’s a set up, but I already know.

They try to stop me, pop me, and drop me]

Into my grave

I’m living life brave

I can’t be a slave

And live in a cave

I’m looking for shade

And lemonade to sip on now

I’m Rare and Rowdy

I got to see the world from a bird’s eye view.

Spitting the rain down

Dew sitting on the plants that grew

Faster than the ones on miracle grow

I’m Aspiring to live higher

From where I =Swing – Low=

And I know this land mind

Gon’ blow up soon

Like the Unabomber

I bring the drama

Express to you

I’m not looking for fame

But a name will help me get paid

It’s Black Bo yall

Got to get it all and make my time pay.

Say à anybody can make a plan

But can you stick to it

I got to be bout a bout and ready like Eddie to do it.

Easy like a Sunday

On the run way

About to take off

Like the ball I kicked off

A field goal with one point

That’s all…

I’m aspiring to live high.

In and out of it like everyday…

Trying to make my time make sense

=I= use my energy to do it again…

Time spent in a laboreth,

A maze of rules and do’s and don’ts.

Checkin’ my steps and can’t stop for rules that won’t…

Help me to next phase…

Paper is easy to burn,

But I had a lot of green lessons to learn..

Got to get to getting,

So I climbed out on a limb to see,

If I jump and started flappin would I fall or fly to be…

On top of the world.

A little sacrafice to live my dreams.

Not blowing steam.

So I set off to do my thing.

I must maintain

Keep my eyes peeled for traps.

I had to get up

Get out

Get something

or another Day would pass

I can’t just sit back, relax and watch my time fly by…

I’m done with questions and answers

For now it’s time to try.

I can rely on the next man

This is my path

My plan

On my two feet I stand.

I can put out my hand

Or I get it myself.

I’m through with waiting on it

Debating on it

I got to get it done

Here it is…

Tell me do you like that?

Huh?

If you hollah

If you hollah they gon’ come!

 

 Chorus:

If you hollah they gon come, Patna run,

With your four fifteens in your trunk,

Stepping on the gas with bump.

Flow masters setting car alarms off,

But you can’t get caught.

Without your L’s it’ll get auctioned and bought.

Profiled and targeted, you’re bound to get pulled over or jacked.

You can say it’s because of this, but it’s just like that.

If you’ve been stepping on the gas and trying to burn out quick –

You bring attention to yourself, so hommie shut that shit!

You want to hollah so they hear you when you’re doing your thing.

Dub rims meaning twenty inch and fresh new paint.

“How do you make your ends shake hands?” is what they ask.

You fit a description – and now their pulling over your ass.

Maybe it’s your complexion or the clothes your in.

Or your age driving a vehicle you love to spin.

Smoking dodo out in public.

Shattering glass on the curb.

You’ll stop to buy a Vega next your rolling up herb.

Now if you puff the magic dragon and don’t spray your raid,

They’ll find roaches building up in your ashy tray.

Today ain’t your day.

One thing leads straight to the next.

Cause and Effect.

If you hollah, do you know what’s next?

 

Chorus Repeated…

 

You made it big.

Getting paid was your life long dream.

Now you can buy and Escalade and the finer things.

You moved up out of the hood and bought a fresh new house.

Your face is in the media and your living it out.

Buying pounds of Mari and want to sip on Chris…

Don Per ion and Baltic Scotch always graze your lips.

Bling Bling… Ice with everything and platinum to match.

Telling the world… “Look at me balling I’m a major catch!!”

Your past revisits you.

Your phone is off the hook.

Everybody wants a dime; they heard you loud and good.

You have more family and friends than you thought you had.

You feel important now Patna, but you ain’t even mad.

You have women by the dozen and the public’s eyes.

Allegations started coming.

Are you wondering why?

Just like the prodigal son, your spending all that you can.

You pull a dollar out cha’ pocket, but it’s burning your hand.

The entourage that you bail with swears they got your back, but when the funds run dry…

As a matter of fact, they get gone.

They leave you how you came in the world.

You said enough without speaking and got caught in the swirl.

Flambouant and proud.

You were only doing your thing.

Why do haters want to hate.

Man when you hollered they came. Stop hollering cause when you holler they come and that’s real.

Chorus Repeated…

 

I know your lovin all the lavish things, they come and they go.

You wanna show off what you got, but you don’t even know.

People are broke and some are starving.

Some might take your thangs.

In class we live.

We’re separated by our hopes and our dreams.

There’s nothing wrong with working hard and doing what you feel.

But understand you show and tell with everything that you deal.

You could be bumping your gums in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You might be set up or a victim of crime.

Flossing and talking bout’ what you got…

But you ain’t got shiiit but a predator waiting to hit.

Sheltered but marked with a bull’s-eye once you move.

You didn’t know the consequences, but now whachagon’ do?

Some folks talk a gang a mess to impress the crowd about their physical abilities,

Saying it loud.

A cat tuned in quick – with a point to prove.

He wants a stripe on his belt, so now he’s sizing up you.

You might say, “I’m not worried, I can handle myself”.

But he just bought a gang of ammo off the K-Mart shelf.

Before the fall comes pride.

Heed the words right here.

This is a forest and the rabbits all have good ears.

 

Chorus Repeated…

 

Makin' Endz Shake Handz

Making Ends Shake Hands…

 

I wake up tired when my alarm buzzes at 5:15

I wash-up, now I’m dressed, ready and clean.

The routine I have to handle just to make it all stable

I have bills to pay and I need food on my table.

I don’t really trip off the politics, these players and games,

I’m just trying to do more than get by and stay sane.

At the same time I’m living my life in a maze.

Tryin’ to walk the straight and narrow man, but crime sho pays.

I see a lot of people doin’ dirt to pad their pockets.

While I sit back at home alone on sprockets and gadgets.

Looking for a better day to come my way someday soon.

I’m feeling the growing pains while I lay here in my room.

I look up out of my window and see the homeless dwell

And realize we’re not that far away from what you call hell.

In the city where I live and work it’s all so bad.

But I know I could be doin’ worse…that makes me mad.

I also understand the unemployment rate.

I’m liable to get cut if I show up late

I have to work until the sun switches shifts with the moon.

And I still have more work at home that I can do.

I try to do as much overtime that I can get, because I need to buy another pot into which I could piss.

Once I get it all together…

One day I’ll stand,  

But for right now man,

I’m tryin’ to make my ends shake hands….