[Hook: The Boy Illinois]
She say I ain't worth a quarter, but I got pennies in my penny loafers
And I'm riding with a dime too, but I got pennies in my penny loafers
And I'm coming off a nickel, but I got pennies in my penny loafers
Paid off the poilice with this dollar piece, but I got pennies in my penny loafers
[Verse 1: The Boy Illinois]
Whenever it's game time know I be the skipper
Can quote a couple verses but you don't know the scriptures
I got a 'lil older and now they call me mister
Probably cause I read the words and you just read the pictures
You ain't have to pick him I still give my opinion
You working with the same ones trying to put you in prison
We just call it pimpin' we call it politic'ing
To get it you gotta understand the dollar difference (dollar difference)
That's inflation gas prices high all off of speculation
And I know that a n***a got a reputation
Of always bringing that into the conversation
Is it Gilbert Gastón or Marcus Garvey
Though deemed an intellectual by my esteemed colleagues
I can show up with my loafers on and my new crew
And my khaki's too with my opinion in each shoe, yessah
[Hook]
[Verse 2: The Boy Illinois]
White Sox fitted with the grey under brim
And them n***as riding with me cause we all wanna win
But we on the same level ain't nobody under him
Bosses in our own right so we got it covered then
Cause we ain't learn much from teachers
Most of our game came from gang bangers and preachers
Most of my change came from stolen phones and features
My shoes don't have no laces I stepped away from the sneakers
No lie my bow tie look like I came from the Mosque
So high shoes gator look like they came from Lacoste
No holiday's that's man made
And all my j**elry hand made
And my n***a I'm a fan fav
And for a rainy day I got some land saved
With some Marc Jacobs landscape
Gangsta we don't follow the mandate
[Hook}
[Verse 3: The Boy Illinois]
Oh my got damn
We flow rivers you got dams
My topic is top ten
Distract 'em at the bottom and get the money with the top hand
Then I make my girl go to Top Man
She gotta be cold and have a good top and
All my women intelligent
She gon pa** the bar so we can finish this settlement
That's my brand of thinking and I'm a man of reason
Chicago born her lipstick on from the land of Lincoln
In the back seat of a cadillac or in the land of Lincoln's
And when she ask for five I could never pa** her Lincoln
Yeah, we all bright ho we could start a light show
Give 'em something to fight for
If you from where I'm from you know about survival
Use to be rivals now they address me as that n***a in the nice loafs