live and you learn

motherfuckers taking pics with their phones, the lights flicker and trip 'em like strobes flashin', on my throne, sippin' manhattans and old fashioneds, hard to fathom when my holster get shattered like broke glasses, smoke pass the road chassis, road map and slowed traffic, no classes, so absent, iq is below average, growing up knowing that no one is proactive, soak up my emotions, they lowered this closed casket, my homies are throat slashers, gold snatchin, old masses, gold fashion, throat bash, girbaud for the bo jacksons, coke addicts, all that they know is the gold habits, won't catch a break, fumble the ball when they're throwing passes, no ladders, hit a low, you should know what the vocab is, hoes flashed us back then, now they show us the whole package, spin into the tree just like jacqueline onassis, blow rappin', they told me it won't happen, wished they would have told me i would owe taxes, i should own my own masses, growing up, you gon' live and you learn, one day the lord above gonna give you a turn, and when he finally does are you willing to work?, to go and get what you're worth, cause i can give you my word, you gotta live and you learn, you might've been through the worst, and it can make you stronger so forget what you heard, just focus on the future, not the shit that occurred, this worm slither and squirm, the more you dig in the dirt, you gotta live and you learn, fuck diplomas, we ain't study much, plus the drugs corrupted us, fuck instructions, we ain't know what structure was, hustlers with dreams, my team would scheme, then go stick up the plug, take a shit then run out, we ain't cut out for construction jobs, rhyming ain't my hobby, couple of my homies love the rush, like the sight of blood and guts and fighting, guys would knuckle up, think cause you got muscles you gon' win this scuffle?, we gon' sucker punch you, jump you, what the fuck, you thought that we was touching gloves?, usually dudes would grab they gun and bust you when they buttons push, murders and abductions, seeing shit you can't recover from, trust is gone the moment that your homie fucked the one you love, so now you're drunk as fuck and paying aces at the rub and tug, i got it coming cause i used to rub my nuts and cuss, spittin' in the food when i was cooking at the country club, but i was young and dumb, destructive saying fuck so and so, such and such, who is who, enough's enough, growing up, you gon' live and you learn, one day the lord above gonna give you a turn, and when he finally does are you willing to work?, to go and get what you're worth, cause i can give you my word, you gotta live and you learn, you might've been through the worst, and it can make you stronger so forget what you heard, just focus on the future, not the shit that occurred, this worm slither and squirm, the more you dig in the dirt, you gotta live and you learn, homies stealin crotch rockets, i watched em, taking blow torches to vacuums at car washes, the kid that sat beside me in class was an armed robber, our fathers walked off, we lost morals, lost marbles, stabbed david, shot charles, who gon' fall out next?, the chick i went to school with, she a shot out mess, she the type that shouldn't be allowed to pop out kids, she pregnant with another baby while she shot up meth, we a product of our environment, why are we so incapable?, learning from our mistakes to escape what we afraid to move, a slave to all our vices, providing the price, we paid to lose, we came to prey the food for all the lions, tigers, sabertooths, i made it through, i'm like a ragin' bull inside a china shop, i survived the shots they fired on the firing squat, i just tied the knot, i used to say my timing's off, forgot a lot of shit, but i remember i was taught, growing up, you gon' live and you learn, one day the lord above gonna give you a turn, and when he finally does are you willing to work?, to go and get what you're worth, cause i can give you my word, you gotta live and you learn, you might've been through the worst, and it can make you stronger so forget what you heard, just focus on the future, not the shit that occurred, this worm slither and squirm, the more you dig in the dirt, you gotta live and you learn