That is the lesson.
If the game shakes me or breaks me I hope it makes me a better man.
Take a better stand.
Yeah.
Hey, what up, Static?
Can I talk to the people now?
What's up, y'all?
It's your man, Lecrae.
I just want to put something on your mind.
Look, this song's dedicated to all the cottage cheese.
I see I'm miseducated.
A young Malcolm Red got about his prison bed Said I'ma leave a mark on this world when I'm dead
x marks the spot a lot of clowns get shot but they living for nothing when he died for a lot from the blocks to the prison many risen to lead but i can't get a job cause they be testing my peace man i keep it true
I got sick of callin' in sick Waitin' for a nigga in order to come and find me in the sticks Ain't had the money for school, so I apply for scholarships For black and Indian roots, it's amazing what you get Was I wonderfully crafted to piss and pay taxes?
Made to reflect the master or leg on the matrix?
Get up, get out, get somethin', man, cultivate a creation Don't blame it on your lack of education Go to church, go to school, walk the earth, watch the news
Type of person that hates what he learns, call the fool Type of person that don't wanna work, call skinny Type of person that learns and applies, I call winning You are wired to be hungry for more than what you currently are But you spoil your appetite on all these mediocre bars
mediocre stars is all he's shooting for yeah wonder why we barely get far she got betty david's eyes phyllis dilla grill the game and she's name is such a killer phil killed to be killed you might end up in the dirt with no guarantee to end up on the shirt
Made to work hard up until the coffin.
So when you're hard at work, you don't get to see deaf cousin often.
But why rest?
When the rest of the world is like, yo, grow, man.
You need to drop us some pearls.
Them legends from the ground up.
Put me through school.
Had me run up on stage and look them dead in their eyes.
Known to do the same.
School the newest to the game.
So when they run up on stage, they look them dead in their iPhone.
and I'm known as a vet who don't take kindly to some old school title around the neck
Challenge the game herself to a game of wealth.
She laughed and gave me money, but kept my fame on stealth.
Quiet money.
still money and we talk tall she got her face dolled up white nose all on froze lines of snow crawled up in the car we claimed dope to stay shot up in the arm
The B man will be the handle, though, to say that we made it.
But the low pub check keep you jaded.
But if the game shakes me or breaks me, a better man I will become till the day I'll be done.
It's too much ice grilling with ice clothes.
And too much ice working fly clothes.
We gotta get our priorities in order before we go and order another pair of Jordans.
Is my daughter fine?
Is she taking care of this time?
Or is this another D minus you get for always lying?
Can you go and put it behind us?
So what you trying to find?
I ain't trying to say I'm perfect, but I sure am trying.
One thing about me, feel the music in my soul.
Coulda changed up, coulda went the wrong road Seen the door open, coulda seen the door close Coulda seen the cup empty, but I seen the cup fold Now that the tank full, man, where you wanna go?
I ain't gotta sell records for my heart to go gold Learn that while you young, save a lot of heartbreak Drop jewels on your son, listen to what mom say Son, first was apostle, second was the prophet Third was the teacher, now they all watch him Try to be peaceful, man, I'm just tryna live
Cause Lord knows I had problems at my mama crib.
Life had me stuck, oh, making dollars there.
But the dollars I was chasing, they was counterfeit.
So bogus, living your life hopeless.
Up against the ropes, just trying to stay focused.
Well, I'm on this earth.
I'ma try to progress I know a lot of men that's rich But they know less But since I gauged being rich With help, God, and fam My friends and my fans I'ma die a rich man
Ayo, Stat, thanks for letting me speak to him on this one, man.
If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.
Take a better stand.
If the game shakes me or breaks me I hope it makes me a better man
Take a better stand.
