Textbook Stuff - XV

[00:0.32]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[00:4.77]It's in the ABC of growing up
[00:11.2]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[00:15.85]It's in the ABC of growing up
[00:22.01]Yeah three women raised me
[00:23.71]Famous footwear paid me
[00:24.59]Not enough to blow up but sure enough
[00:26.05]Cause I ain't f-cking lazy
[00:27.18]If teachers thought I was dumb or crazy or both
[00:30.4]With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z I smoked
[00:33.21]In my chair in my braids my hair wasn't waves
[00:35.66]Being fly was priority to the lowest
[00:37.86]I would stand on my desk just to seethe
[00:40.37]World in a different way
[00:41.39]The dead society of a poet
[00:43.7]Homie I'm focused but thats something
[00:45.54]That a dude can't prove
[00:46.91]I mean fair I was damn near invisible at school
[00:49.73]So I banged for a minute cause
[00:51.71]All my n-ggas was crippin'
[00:52.59]Just me and two of my dudes blue man group
[00:55.0]Had dreams of doing things they said you can't do
[00:57.72]Cause everything ain't black and white
[00:59.4]Unless you chew bamboo
[01:01.03]So I was after big bills like a toucan dude
[01:05.58]All the while my mamma asking why
[01:08.45]I'm chewing at school
[01:10.38]She said
[01:11.4]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[01:17.98]It's in the ABC of growing up
[01:29.2]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[01:36.55]It's in the ABC of growing u
[01:48.22]So why I ain't go to college
[01:51.07]My mammas ultimatum made me say that I know I got it
[01:55.5]My n-ggas said D's buggin'
[01:58.22]Stay on your computer software de-buggin'
[01:62.08]But we holding hardware cause we thuggin'
[01:66.2]Now they in the trap house
[01:68.32]With some guns they dun borrowed
[01:70.13]And all this snow I call it empty sorrow
[01:74.53]With plans to reach the end even if
[01:78.05]I had to start slow
[01:79.88]Sold CD's in the mall making dough like Sbarro's
[01:83.8]Then I left the hood like f-ck it
[01:87.1]Don't need the cargo
[01:89.08]They banking out on you well
[01:91.13]And I don't mean Fargo
[01:93.5]But even if you leave somehow it try to follow
[01:97.45]Baby brother took a charge hotter than Lebron and Rondo
[02:00.67]Tryna keep his head up while his eyes are in the bible
[02:06.18]Cause they say your mind is idol
[02:09.27]It's a devils toy aisle
[02:11.48]My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol
[02:15.7]I told him sit down this information is vital
[02:20.37]Look
[02:21.73]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[02:28.42]It's in the ABC of growing up
[02:39.62]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[02:47.4]It's in the ABC of growing u
[02:59.4]Living my life like I'm living right
[02:62.13]In the midst of a fire pit
[02:64.25]The gang banging and the violence
[02:66.47]Is the sweetest song
[02:67.93]In a room with the heart of a violin
[02:70.77]Don't violate my patience I'm waiting
[02:74.68]To kill a man as I stare at the celiing fan
[02:77.97]As a fan of these wicked streets
[02:80.42]If I gotta eat I steal like a metal peice
[02:84.17]Screaming now f-ck the police
[02:86.75]I'm dealing my cards with jokers on 'em
[02:89.42]You can disown him or stone him
[02:92.1]I'm throwin' them rocks back with a
[02:94.5]Flurry of bullets
[02:95.53]You couldn't live your life for the moment
[02:97.9]When I'm foaming at the mouth
[03:01.1]I'm as sharp as the teeth showing
[03:03.6]I'm in the back of a black Buick
[03:06.1]Finna black out like February
[03:07.57]Ay thats how blacks do it right
[03:12.03]I cut off my ears before I hear
[03:14.67]Your advice and vice versa
[03:16.28]I'm screaming for help as loud as
[03:18.87]I can but thats not working
[03:20.87]I'm working them corners like Blueprints
[03:23.13]Then cut a L on my first offence
[03:27.12]The judge threw the book at me than said this
[03:33.25]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[03:38.48]It's in the ABC of growing up
[03:49.55]There there baby it's just textbook stuff
[03:57.18]It's in the ABC of growing u
[03:67.92]Textbook Stuff (Feat Kendrick Lamar) (Prod By Seven) - XV