Few Good Things (feat. Black Thought and Eryn Allen Kane)

[00:11.14] I put the punch in the kick instead of punchin' the clock
[00:14.54] It's no wonder that this is timeless
[00:16.79] Nights spent sleepin' on the floor, need a bed or at least a cot
[00:20.29] Since his dreams started to find him
[00:22.15] The grind never stopped for the workin' class, fuck a birkin bag
[00:25.34] I learned my colors, then I had to watch what color shirt I had
[00:28.41] Like a concierge, I showed the way of our concernin' past
[00:31.23] But everybody can't come along, I've come to terms with that
[00:33.96] I ain't never been one to burn bridges or burn a bag
[00:37.45] Ironic, money turn a man into an island
[00:39.85] And a friend into a financial advisor
[00:41.90] Take a family and divide it, in America, the land of the tyrant
[00:44.66] Still with the same niggas, and that mean the women too
[00:48.70] The only thing change what I paid for the tennis shoe
[00:51.59] Like Eminem on the stage before he blew, this is livin' proof
[00:54.56] Bad things come in threes, good things come in few
[00:57.08] Yeah, few
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[01:08.97] All the feels we had to run from
[01:11.83] And he only want a few things
[01:14.72] We went back to where we start from
[01:17.48] Not the only one
[01:19.37] All the feels we had to run from
[01:23.24] And he only want a few things
[01:26.06] We went back to where we start from
[01:28.91] Not the only one
[01:30.96] Niggas reppin' blocks like the taxi wars
[01:34.48] But the thing about turf is that it never actually grows
[01:37.66] I tried to focus on the sprouts like a grocery store
[01:40.05] But in the hood, shit don't always go how it's supposed to go
[01:43.23] So we adjusted like a tailor makin' alterations
[01:45.84] Altercations in our Austin neighborhood was all for paper
[01:48.80] Group think, swear that it was all contagious how we all complacent
[01:51.98] I said, fuck it, I'm all in, like I was off to Vegas
[01:54.74] The follow days I grew my dreads like I was part Jamaican
[01:57.39] Know the journey waiting' is a lonely one, they'll call him crazy
[02:00.43] Because believing' in yourself not often celebrated
[02:02.98] People projecting' a mirror image that is merely hatred
[02:06.11] The fear he faces is the same as me, appear adjacent
[02:08.77] All truth, you know I don't lie like Shakira shaking
[02:11.65] Iridescent people show they colors, I assume they true
[02:14.56] Bad things come in threes, good things comin' soon
[02:17.62] Few
[02:31.85] And he only want a few things
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[02:40.33] All the feels we had to run from
[02:43.22] And he only want a few things
[02:46.14] We went back to where we start from
[02:48.90] Not the only one
[02:51.70] All the feels we had to run from
[02:54.61] And he only want a few things
[02:57.42] We went back to where we start from
[03:00.33] Not the only one
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[03:26.79] From what we knew about my mother
[03:28.28] She was cut from the cloth of South Carolina gullah
[03:31.67] She knew to keep the root a right amount of color
[03:33.95] Her old soul remind you of somebody abuelas
[03:36.80] It's smooth the way she dip into her mental cobweb
[03:39.63] When she staring into your soul and you tryin' not to let her
[03:42.54] Now and then you might get a word if not a operetta
[03:45.36] When she take it upon herself to drop a acapella 'bout
[03:49.09] Different rules, relatives you can't pick and choose
[03:51.98] How they quick to get confused and then disapprove
[03:54.70] Grown actin' like they still in school
[03:56.99] But in the grand scheme of things, it all seems pretty minuscule
[04:00.56] A cool toast to the people we adore the most
[04:03.04] Let's hold 'em close like the water headed for the coast
[04:06.09] I'm wide awoke, what I'm haunted by is more than ghosts
[04:08.89] It's when you slip and sippin' a mornin' roast
[04:10.83] Listenin' to Hall and Oates, oyster flex on a ashy wrist
[04:14.70] As I reflect on what got me this
[04:16.67] How I'm one of Cassie kids, we from SP and we come in twos
[04:20.40] I'm unenthused, but good things come in fews
[05:27.37] I tried that invincible shit, but the principle is
[05:30.09] When it's niggas defendin' your wig, then it's a pendulum shift
[05:33.14] I tried to spend a little less like a minimalist
[05:35.80] But then I can confess that this gets harder the bigger you get
[05:38.91] The richer get rich, the poorer get pissed, that's just what it is
[05:42.09] We seen everything from the gutter, the glitz
[05:44.51] Adults in the crib telling they kids to cover they ears
[05:47.62] Fight with a younging and watch they older brothers appear
[05:50.30] Like two in the front and one in the rear
[05:52.63] The fun subsides when you gotta swallow your anger
[05:55.05] Or stomach your fear
[05:56.40] All the money a myth, it's a sunken abyss
[05:59.12] But necessary for the family to have somewhere to live
[06:01.92] So you stuck with makin' decisions more than some wouldn't get
[06:04.85] The baggage that come with the bag, hope you not fumblin' it
[06:07.72] Marathon, not a sprint, like I'm honoring' Nip
[06:10.66] When commas the common denominator, all the percent
[06:13.40] Got us movin' to the Pacific in hopes that it would be different
[06:16.49] The boat we was on had physics that left some of us swimmin'
[06:19.25] Don't ask 'bout my independence, we not financially literate
[06:22.38] Dangle a million dollars when oxygen was the mission
[06:25.19] We just wanna breathe, we been downing down here for centuries
[06:28.25] Black and brown boy identity, families that depend on me
[06:31.14] Art get turned to assembly line and rely on my lineage
[06:34.34] Glass half full, the other half was the emptiness
[06:36.24] We turned a bunch of nothing to abundance
[06:40.34] Few good things
[06:43.18] When, when, when uncle Eddie got married to aunt
[06:48.44] He, he married my aunt
[06:51.21] You have to tell the story
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