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[00:17.50]Bring it in
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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)