Them That's Not-J-Live

[00:00.00] [00:17.50]Bring it in [00:18.00] [00:18.10](Verse 1) [00:18.50]Once upon a time there was a brotha named Kastro [00:20.70]Had a little problem with his cash flow [00:22.50]More than once his friend'd tell me he had a dream to clock mad dough [00:24.80]Only at the time it seem that absurd [00:26.70]Then he saw a light bulb flash up in his forehead [00:28.60]Shine so bright he had to close both eyes [00:30.40]Said whoever hit him for the average poor asshole [00:32.30]'Bout to be hit for they biggest surprise [00:33.90]Now meanwhile, still short on pot to piss in [00:35.80]Not to mention any window to throw it out [00:37.40]Lookin like who don't you want and where it come from [00:39.10]Sippin on chicken wing, smackin on stout [00:40.60]Step to his boys, the label of the month [00:42.20]Like 'yo, what's the haps kid, let me get a deal' [00:43.90]Got a dope style, sound just like so and so [00:45.40]What's her name, runnin from ya, even more ill [00:46.90]Make ya wanna holler like Marvin [00:48.20]Did I mention I'm starvin and quite thirst [00:49.70]Meanin what, meanin that I'm a do whatever it take to make sure they play my shit first [00:52.50]On the Billboard and last on the countdown, like contact on that show [00:55.20]So what's up black, yo, how that sound? [00:56.50]If you down then c'mon let's go [00:57.60]Down to the studio right now [00:58.90]Bring me that crate with the old hits [01:00.10]Make that beat with the right style [01:01.50]So that brotha wanna go get [01:02.80]In that club with the DJ [01:04.00]He've been on the radio all day [01:05.20]I get in cool with him even though he fake as a toupee [01:07.60]I roll with ballers and thugs to make my image legit [01:10.40]Even though back in the day they told me "you ain't shit" [01:12.70]I'm at the Cinderella ball, now it just don't quit [01:15.20]Eh, **** that, I shrink my feet if the shoe don't fit [01:17.80]I make it happen like hormones, you been forewarned [01:20.30]I got you mad now cause I'm kickin that popcorn [01:22.80]It blows up in a couple minutes [01:24.70]Expand the pockets so your girl's hand's all in it [01:27.30]I see ya shorty starin at me on the guest line [01:29.80]But these four backstage'll do me just fine [01:32.30]Or five, that's for my jam on the request line [01:34.80]So if you stress me I could tell you through the grapevine [01:37.30]It's like this [01:37.80] [01:37.90](Chorus) [01:38.20]Them that's gots, I get [01:39.40]Them that's not shall lose [01:40.60]But man, you gotta get it while the gettin is good [01:43.10]Now, if you can get it all this much and this fast [01:45.70]Don't be tellin me you wouldn't cause I know that you would [01:48.20]Them that's gots, I get [01:49.40]Them that's not shall lose [01:50.80]But god, I gotta get it while the gettin is good [01:53.10]Now, if you can get it all this much and this fast [01:55.70]Don't be tellin me you wouldn't cause I know that you would [01:57.00] [01:57.10](Verse 2) [01:57.20]Yo, I'm number one, but the bullet can't hack it now [02:00.20]The Billboard need a full metal jacket now [02:02.70]You see my face all day 'til it make you sick [02:05.10]I got a hand full of cards, you can take your pick [02:07.60]Now who'd a thought this bullshit song'd have me seen [02:10.20]And every video and every other magazine [02:12.80]With more attention than a jet black drag queen [02:15.20]At a convention with a Grand Dragon Klans meetin [02:17.80]Kids hang on every word I say like a damn fiend [02:20.40]It's too bad it don't stand for a damn thing [02:22.90]They parents say I'm too nasty for they damn teen [02:25.40]But I ain't write it so don't ask me what the **** it mean [02:28.00]I got some other shit to worry 'bout instead [02:30.50]The more money, more problems like the man said [02:32.80]Ain't like my phone is bein tapped by the damn FEDs [02:35.40]But my accountant said I can't get out the damn red [02:38.00]I heard that people gettin tired of my song now [02:40.50]The album drops and now my fans are gettin hostile [02:43.10]I only had one song that got the style right [02:45.60]The guy who wrote it, yo, his album dropped last night [02:48.20]My pockets on Slim Fast and Jenny Craig [02:50.60]The same clubs and restaraunts that kept me well fed [02:53.00]Reject my credit like a Muslim do a boar's head [02:55.70]Good thing my boss is my boy so I ain't gotta beg [02:58.30]But now he hollerin at me like 'yo, where the loot went?' [03:00.80]We had to clear the damn sample when the loop went [03:03.30]We comin up type short like an indent [03:05.90]And I just learned a new word called recoupment [03:08.40]I got paid for the video equipment [03:11.00]And every other detail a red cent spent [03:13.70]Oh hell nah, don't talk about no ****in fine print [03:16.80]Well tell me this, how the hell I'm gonna pay the rent [03:20.30]I got a live-in landlord so now I tiptoe [03:24.00]In and out the crib to find a way to get dough [03:27.70]Can't make another record [03:29.80]Cause I can't flow [03:31.00]Damn,right [03:31.80]But I could tell you a lil story [03:34.10]And that shit go [03:35.50] [03:35.60](Talking) [03:37.00]Once upon a, I don't know [03:37.50]Used to be a brother named Kastro [03:42.30]Had a little problem with his cash flow [03:45.30] [03:45.40](Chorus fades in) [03:47.90]Them that's gots, I get [03:49.00]Them that's not shall lose [03:50.10]But God bless the child that could write his own rhyme [03:52.50]Some might choose to pray, some might choose to snooze [03:54.90]But the style that I use is the style that's mine [03:57.10](Mixing to fade)