Dave East - It Was Written lyrics

[Intro] Six million ways to die (Took a lot to get this Rollie n***a) Six million ways to get rich (Huh, hah) [Verse 1] Everybody keep telling me "make a club record" You ain't trapping no more, stop making drug records You got a daughter bout to come, stop making thug records I brought that money back fast, I had the plug flexing Welcome to Harlem, el Barrio, that's the drug section Hit your b**h with my jeans on, ain't making love naked I got love for my loco but I know cuz reckless I ain't gotta sleep in the projects, I did enough stressing My father was a rolling stone but taught me one lesson Do your dirt by yourself, your friends be the ones telling I knew it broke my mother's heart to know her son selling I had coke in my dresser, trifling as ever I had a dream Biggie featured me on Life After I be with my same n***as, I don't really like rappers n***as can't make a song for nothing but they nice actors Go and get a movie role, low bagging up tuna rolls, raw sh** I come from a block where you seen it but never saw sh** I be at the juice bar, my wheat gra** and bark sh** My younging just came from up north, he want to park sh** Tryna teach him something bout life and how we started Lower cla** poverty, homies from jail calling me Playing the number everyday but never hit the lottery Liquor store on every corner, might as well get drunk I remember that free lunch wasn't shooting, we would jump stones n***as like the end of the blunt, traps load up I told papi I got him by the end of the month I was thinking bout 550's with the cinnamon guts These shots'll blow your mind away, now your memory dust And memory of, I got a JF Kennedy buzz Presidential called enterprise, I need another rental Tryna take a package down to North Carolina Maybe buy some Ferragamo, I'm so focused on the commas [Hook] If you never been broke it's gon' be hard to feel me Only Allah get my flow, it's gon' be hard to k** me They say practice make perfect, we at it every day Thinking about that consignment, sometimes I never paid It was written I'm gifted, homie come learn something Conversations bout paper homie, let's burn something It was written I'm gifted, homie come learn something Conversations bout paper homie, let's burn something [Verse 2] It's hard to stop what's already in motion I ain't gotta hit your blunt, I've already been smoking G Star denims on my Shmurda sh** In '08 my mental was really on some murder sh** Cause nothing was working out Just to pa** the time started working out Me and my n***a Jay Black from way back He a Bronx n***a, met him in Queens Butch crib, met up with fiends Imagine Nas signed you, hell of a dream Somebody pinch me Promise nothing they say ever getting to me Used to watch House Party, not kidding play listen to me This that talk that make the hustlers want to open shop This that stash house talk, don't let 'em know the spot This that talk that got my city wanting to rap again This that all black everything like an African This that middle of the summer in a trench coat Glock 19 reminding them of how you been broke [Hook] If you never been broke it's gon' be hard to feel me Only Allah get my flow, it's gon' be hard to k** me They say practice make perfect, we at it every day Thinking about that consignment, sometimes I never paid It was written I'm gifted, homie come learn something Conversations bout paper homie, let's burn something It was written I'm gifted, homie come learn something Conversations bout paper homie, let's burn something [Outro] I talked my way right up out the projects n***a Put your mind to it, anything is possible haha From a hole in the wall, yeah Now we in the presidential suite man Top floor, flower for your bust n***a Harlem, yeah