Dollar And A Dream

[00:01.41] Yeah, uh
[00:03.53] This for all my Ville niggas man
[00:04.80] All my Carolina niggas man (The lights off and shit)
[00:06.47] All my real niggas, no matter where you come from and shit
[00:09.73] (We gon' call this shit right here "A Dolla and A Dream")
[00:11.74] A dolla and a dream, that' all a nigga to, so (Yeah)
[00:14.76] If it's about that cream, then I'm all up in the spot
[00:17.11] I was raised in the F-A-Y, a nigga never gave me nothing
[00:20.62] Pops left me, I ain't never cry, baby, fuck him, that's life
[00:24.65] And trust me I'm living, look what a nigga made out
[00:27.10] The shit that I was given, look what a nigga came out
[00:30.25] Momma sewing patches on my holes
[00:32.13] Man, our hoes couldn't put this flame out
[00:34.27] Straight up, I got my back against the brick wall (Yeah)
[00:36.81] I'm from a world where niggas never pop no Cristal, it was pistols
[00:41.13] You pass through, you better pray them bullets miss y'all
[00:43.92] I thank the Lord, he let a nigga make it this far
[00:46.84] A lot niggas don't, a lot of moms weep (Yeah)
[00:49.81] I gotta carry on, all the wight is on me
[00:52.74] You never know when a nigga might try to harm me
[00:55.48] Rest In Peace that nigga John Lee, I pour liquor, homie
[00:58.40] It's foul, but yo the world keeps spinning
[01:01.18] Gotta keep winning, get up off this cheap linen
[01:03.79] Nigga I'mma eat, even if it means sinning
[01:07.06] Niggas want beef, I'm sink my teeth in 'em
[01:09.64] Pause, I go harder (Yeah), I am all about a dollar (Yeah)
[01:12.69] You niggas street smart? I'm a motherfucking scholar
[01:15.64] So trust me, I ain't stopping 'til my money is long
[01:18.01] So much dough, them hoes will think I'm rocking money cologne
[01:21.19] Have a model at the crib waiting, "Honey, I'm home"
[01:24.05] Cooking greens for a nigga, give him plenty of dome
[01:26.52] It's funny, we dream about money so much it's like we almost got it
[01:30.12] Until we reach up in our pockets (Damn)
[01:32.14] It's time to face reality (Yeah), the Ville is a trap nigga now
[01:35.28] And if you ain't focused you gonna be here for a while, yeah
[01:38.84] My nigga Mike rolling with me, riding shotgun
[01:41.48] Type a nigga know about every car, but don't got one
[01:44.24] That's hunger, no wonder niggas fucking with the evils
[01:46.94] Posted on the corner, selling crack like it's legal
[01:50.19] But who am I to judge how a nigga get his paper?
[01:52.89] Dog I'm tryna get my cake up
[01:55.85] I guess I gotta wake up these niggas myself (Uh-huh)
[01:58.64] An E&J sipper, but my shit is top shelf
[02:01.31] Young J (Uh), the rawest shit you niggas ever heard of (Yeah)
[02:04.63] A journalist nigga, call me the Fayetteville Observer (Uh, yeah)
[02:07.66] Yeah
[02:09.15] You know the routine, man
[02:12.55] Fayettenam
[02:14.70] Real niggas can relate
[02:17.36] And Ville niggas can relate, man
[02:21.10] My niggas know about the struggle, man
[02:25.09] What you know about your mama sewing patches on your holes, nigga?
[02:29.96] I had the light blue jeans with the green patches, haha, oh shit
[02:37.79] I was in like first grade man, I swear
[02:43.27] It was like the Sixes came out, the Jordan Sixes
[02:47.13] Them shit was so fly man, I wanted them so bad
[02:50.22] Darryl what up man?
[02:51.28] My nigga Darryl had them shits on in class yo
[02:54.27] I wanted that shit so bad
[02:56.75] I begged my mom for that shit, you know
[02:59.37] But she couldn't afford it, yo, she gave me
[03:02.42] Got me some Reeboks Blacktops, ahaha
[03:06.47] But that was all good, tho, cus uh
[03:08.59] The year after that I had, I had some, some no name shits
[03:11.76] Some all black shits, haha
[03:14.06] Them shits had metal, metal shoelace buckles and shit, you know?
[03:20.43] But you know back then niggas didn't
[03:22.75] Niggas ain't even know we was broke man, no worries and shit
[03:26.91] But uh, time have changed man, I got bills
[03:34.88] My mom is in debt, what you know about that?
[03:39.44] College loans and shit, nigga
[03:45.99] Gotta get this money, ma
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