Common - The Food(2005)

[00:00.01] Tonight's musical guest
[00:02.68] Two of Chicago's finest MCs
[00:05.36] Give it up for Common and Kanye West
[00:10.67] Drops this beat, yeah
[00:13.37] Com's is, Common Sense
[00:15.44] Kanye West on the Dave Chapelle show
[00:18.30] Everybody got to eat right, y'all
[00:19.93] It's the Food, baby
[00:21.80] I walked in the crib, got two kids
[00:24.23] And my baby momma late
[00:27.34] So I had to did what I had to did
[00:29.95] 'Cause I had to give
[00:32.94] I'm up all night gettin' my money right
[00:35.22] Until the blue and whites
[00:37.97] Now the money coming slow, but at least it'll get known
[00:40.88] Slow motion better than
[00:43.77] Yo, you love to hear the story, again and again
[00:46.10] About these young brothers from the city of wind
[00:49.27] Like juice and gin in the city we blend
[00:51.96] Amongst the hustle, titties and skin, fifties and rims
[00:55.38] Y'all know the spreewells and trucks that's detailed
[00:58.04] Heartless females that wanna ride in 'em
[01:00.32] Felt the southside in them with raw hides and denim
[01:03.23] Bent minds collide with them, a system that tries victims
[01:05.98] We livin' in, my man in the fast lane pivotin'
[01:08.77] On the block now, they sellin' like M&M
[01:11.64] On the block get jump off like Kim an' 'em
[01:14.37] On the block is hot, you can feel it in your skin
[01:16.75] Shorties get the game with no instructions to assemble it
[01:19.85] Odds right, it seem like the fight is dim in him
[01:22.40] Call my man Cuzin like I'm kin to him
[01:24.57] He tryin' to stay straight, the streets is bendin' him
[01:27.01] I walked in the crib, got two kids
[01:29.38] And my baby momma late
[01:32.44] So I had to did what I had to did
[01:35.09] 'Cause I had to give
[01:38.01] I'm up all night gettin' my money right
[01:40.65] Until the blue and whites
[01:43.12] Now the money coming slow, but at least it'll get known
[01:45.81] Slow motion better than
[01:48.47] It's all good in the hood like rats and gyms
[01:51.56] Fullbacks and tims, blacks and rims
[01:54.65] Whether on ball courts, attires are ball shorts
[01:57.61] We never fall short, with us it's all force like Air Ones
[02:01.58] Some wave some air guns
[02:02.93] The day of the fair ones is over fo'
[02:05.60] Cats is colder than four below, whassup?
[02:07.64] I go toe to toe, wondering if it's for the art or for the dough
[02:11.22] Though I know to grow a gotta learn to let go
[02:14.08] Though I know the dough I gotta bring back to the ghetto
[02:16.80] Aeros or Tarot cards pointin' to the grind
[02:19.30] Po' livin' and mo' prisons pointin' to my mind
[02:21.71] Shine the light up
[02:22.72] Clench my fists tight, holdin' it right up
[02:24.83] Freedom fight in dark gear for the years to get brighter
[02:27.60] Situations, the jaws get tighter
[02:30.29] My man trying to get his way to higher
[02:32.66] I walked in the crib, got two kids
[02:34.76] And my baby momma late
[02:37.94] So I had to did what I had to did
[02:40.51] 'Cause I had to give
[02:43.28] I'm up all night gettin' my money right
[02:45.81] Until the blue and whites
[02:48.42] Now the money coming slow, but at least it'll get known
[02:51.05] Slow motion better than
[02:54.24] Hey yo I, I know I could make it right
[02:58.42] If I could just swallow my pride
[03:01.55] But I can't run away or put my gun away
[03:04.49] You can't front on me
[03:05.73] I, no I can't let it ride
[03:09.66] No, no, not tonight
[03:12.05] No, I can't run away or put my gun away
[03:15.19] You can't front on me
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