penny

Penny
Change please, change (yea)

Some cut off they nose despite they face then holla
Some suffering from life challenges down to they last fighting trauma
And the bills don't care about how a nigga feel so we get creative in the field to make some dollars
knowing they say mo money mo problems
But we never had no one to stick out they hand from the other side and make it easier for us
They just ignore us, that's they style
Some luxuries I wanna be able to afford
Like sending my future children to college with a smile like fifty thousand is pocket change

Ain't gone lie yesterday I fell asleep plotting my escape
Woke up to a call
Damn a nigga then got terminated
My girl wanna go on vacation
Meanwhile I lose my patience when she bring up my past trials and tribulations
Hope she don't ask me about my bank statements
If I had a tank I'd blow this bitch up
If my wrist look like Shedeur's I'd hold that shit up
That's black niggas for ya
White niggas Dapper Dan on the metro north
Soft flexing with a plain jane Rolex
I be like "excuse me sir, if I apply for a job in your profession would they hire me"?
"Two hundred, two hundred-fifty, could I do that off a salary"?
"Nah? Then gimmie yo shit, now I'ma go find your wife and give her BBC, remind her of her college flings uh"
Now that I got yo attention
Back to what I was saying
Funny how when you talk sex and violence yo shit start rating (it's going up)
Crazy how when they talk about the black man its always foul
In this patriarchy world I then walked many miles
Now if you had my size thirteens and this black hoodie on
And a cop looking at you like you were born into the world to do wrong
And you decide to take a jog
And they decide to say "halt"!
Would you run? or stop?
Don't matter either way you'd get shot
This next part here is for the intelligent muthafuckers in front, and the back, that's gone ask, "why run"?
Brother, when you run, do pigs ask where you going?
when you park in a neighborhood do pigs ask you where you from?
I had to take it there and
Glad you got to hear
It's the year two-five but my problems from last year ain't just gone up and disappear
They still very much alive
Came into this world innocent crying if I could rewind probably slap my mom
Ask why the- you bring into this world that's upside down
She probably stare into my beady eyes and say something to make me smile
That's a mother for you I love mine with all my heart
She mended my scars
She Pass on my flaws
Pray I don't get lost
Pray pride won't swell up my heart
Pray foolish lips don't find my balls
"And hope you make it to the other side to then reach and help someone else, see the TV got the youth in its grip"
"So, what you say when its yo time, matters"
"Factor in all complexes, and all the patterns"
"Speak on emotional, mental, psycho and social dynamics"
"Be conscious what you channel through your channel, control the narrative, make amends, forgive, never forget"

Some cut off they nose despite they face then holla
Some suffering from life challenges down to they last fighting trauma
And the bills don't care about how a nigga feel so we get creative in the field to make some dollars
knowing they say mo money mo problems
But we never had no one to stick out they hand from the other side and make it easier for us
They just ignore us, that's they style
Some luxuries I wanna be able to afford
Like sending my future children to college with a smile like fifty thousand is pocket change

Uh, pocket change
Currency exchange
Can I get some chaaaange? But first I gotta change
Uh, pocket change
Currency exchange
Chaaaange, but first I gotta change
Then holla
Fighting trauma