TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS


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I’m talkin’ old school lucky charms and captain crunch

Game days I’m laced up in my Reebok Pumps

Poppin’ 4 fireballs just to prove I was tough

And asking her to dance just to call out his bluff

She kissed me on the cheek but I kept that on the hush

You weren’t cool unless you got a seat in back of the bus

Fact of it was, it wasn’t bout catchin’ a buzz

Life was a rubber band and baseball in the web of my glove

And my man was MJ so I was waggin’ my tongue

Lit up the driveway so we could play way after the sun

And into the dark, one on one my brother’d be Starks

And we would ball like we were up in the league (he’s on fire)

Man hunt to running bases my smile got some braces

How time flies it’s hard to believe

I wasn’t worried as the time passed but lookin’ in that hour glass

I swear it ain’t as full as it seemed

 

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In the book of life, grief and beefs a novel

I ain’t got time to wallow in the sorrow

The past is the past, I did what I could

It’s ain’t forgettin’ the bad, it’s rememberin’ the good

So when we reminisce of our past relations

Talk about the nonsense, trials and tribulations

It’s all good, and it’s understood

It ain’t forgettin’ the bad it’s rememberin’ the good

 

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Blunt stunts on the bench an’ ditchin’ detention

Getting bent with my henchmen, did I mention

This was way back when, old days feel like a different dimension

I wouldn’t change a thing, nah I’d do it again sen

Drive around and smoke, do that same old loop

Old E 40’s grab a shorty and just hold down a stoop

Cause there was nothing to do, just ladies to pursue

Skip class drink brew, the same 1, 2 who knew…

Time flew so fast we grew, into a mislead braindead knucklehead crew

It’s true, just livin’ to joke slapbox, freestyle, smile

Party and smoke, after weed, cigs, and beer my pockets were broke

I didn’t have a whip so I pimped out my bike spokes, pegs and all

Roll to the courts and school cats in handball, skatin’ kickflips at the mall

 

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(Verse)

Remember hookin’ up with hot dates on my cot I had to inflate

Whatever we ate, cooked on hot plates

Pot of coffee up late, Potter brought me my weight

Prolly had some problems, solved um, just cleaned the slate

Finished “Up State Of Mind”, our new creation

Met my second fam on my 5 year vacation

Drank till I found myself lost in translation, god damn…

I miss those trials and tribulations

 

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Remember sayin’ goodnight just as the sun was risin’

And wakin’ up as it set below the horizon

Night life felt right, ‘cause we were day dreamin’

3 month long trends, we’d change with the seasons

A crew of misfits, thought we were rockstars

Hardheaded for sure, but sure we were headed far

Schiff told me to be patient, he said the worlds waiting

Sifting through these trials and tribulations

 

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