Transformation Lyrics - The S.o.u.l. Tape 2 - Fabolous

I'm old enough to know better, young enough to not give a fuck 

Rather hold my head high and die than live and duck 

Remember I was down to die just to live it up 

But life's a bitch and that judge is quick to give her up 

They say that life is short, several looking through the bars 

Gotta keep your head up, I be looking to the stars 

I been through a lot, wasn't looking for no cause 

Didn't kill me though, now I'm here looking at the scars 

Sometimes you get caught by people looking from a far 

That's how it is when you out here taking cookies from a jar 

That's what my son said, they came and took him and his draws 

He support the family, they took the mama favorite bra 

The feds, snatched my favorite boy 

These the rainy days they say you should be saving for 

But when sun shines no one carries umbrellas 

And if they did, we would look at them as dumbfellas 

I'm trying to become something, they probably become jealous 

Have a lot to say about it, but afraid to come tell us 

I'm here to beat the odds that were set against me 

Wished the worst luck to anyone who bet against me 

I wanna be somebody, somebody that's never been 

No squares in my circle, best shape I ever been 

I'm growing up, my daddy planted a seed 

My mama watered me with a plan to succeed 

I was that kid in the ghetto, hand full of seeds 

But I'm here now and I don't plan to recede 

Sometimes I think I lucked up at right time 

Imagine I would've fucked up that night slime 

It hurts to even think about it 

Would be in the streets, thirsty, trying to get a drink up out it 

Black hoodie, I pull that quatro cinco out it 

While they put that iron to your clothes 

Like I'm taking wrinkles out it 

Take every Franklin, Grant, Jackson and Lincoln out it 

Look you in the eyes and tell you don't you even think about it 

So as you hear me dropping this rhyme 

Know my opportunity could of been stopped at a dime 

The life you chose come from lack of options sometime 

Gotta do what you gotta do, even opting a crime 

And who am I? Without a name, dropping it I'm 

Someone who saw the top and didn't stop, he just climbed 

Someone who get money without dropping a dime 

Transform to your leader in my optimus prime 

So, for dinner you're stopping at Prime 

Round of chill Patron, top of the lime 

Hold 'em up, look at your niggas and say 

There was no way out, but we figured a way 

And now we chill, loaded up a steel 

We just wish a nigga would but I know a nigga will 

But for real, good is how you feel 

But as soon as a nigga good is as soon as a nigga will 

And we don't owe these niggas nothing 

Put that in a nigga will, yeah 

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