[Intro: CJ Fly]
Fly!
[Cane]
You know, it's my blood
[Chorus: CJ Fly]
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day
So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
[Verse One: CJ Fly]
It's all or nothin', quit with all the bluffin'
Soon as one of my cards decline I'm in my wallet shufflin'
Not so lucky, I guess that's how it's lookin'
I'm a pro and not a rookie I school you all and I play hookie
These were my times with Sookie
Tea kettle whistlin' if she ever left the stove on
Old age had kicked in and she sent me for a store run
Gamblin' is in your blood, ain't superstitious
But you're definitely knockin' on one If I win we all won
Behavin' imagine the good grandson that I've been
Grandma give me the missing numbers, the cash that I need
Used to love the bodegas, now they ask for I.D
Had my own two dollars just to get some scratches for me
Around that time things were drastic, worryin' 'bout our finances
Didn't no one give them to me, I was the one who finance us
Said f** whoever doubted that's when I took my chances
Feel strongly about whatever I believe in cause I'm a cancer
Ain't an auction but they gave my mans a bid
Damn the CC8 just filled another bed
I guess we got some time to k**
And you gotta play the hands you're dealt
Fly!
[Chorus: CJ Fly]
Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day
So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
[Verse Two: Talib Kweli]
Voice of the unheard, louder than the bomb
Grandma's boy couldn't be prouder of my mom
For this historical perspective a political education
I hardly ever gamble my risk was too calculated
Caught up in the traps, to highly and discrete
Red dollar and rented dream and get you followed by the fiends
'Cause this life is like a lottery, a loser then you'll probably be
Living with the ghost like Demi Moore with the pottery
Testing our morality when facing our mortality
Betting on a fallacy handin' over our salaries
+Natural born k**er+ they call us +Mickey+ and +Mallory+
'Til our men become warriors and our women turn into valkyries
Cussin' like some sailors in the open seas
Mama got the silk for the apartment smellin' like potpourri
Shoppin' for the groceries got her a pepsi-cola and some coke for me
Makin' a quick stop by the OTB
[Chorus: CJ Fly]
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day
So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
[Verse Three: Cane]
Grandma, uh, and you knew that's all we needed
That's why you plant a seed and you feed it repeat it
and treat it then we play against the odds
If we can only defeat it
We see it but we steady weepin' whenever we read it
End up feeling cheated, we deserve better
'Cause she done earned cheddar and I know she took her turn
Being Tina Turner let her be returned from her debtor
You'd know all she want is world peace if you met her
And one day we may travel
If you bought that scratch off like Payola at a DJ battle
And it paid off then we made off like Madoff
And ate off that plate constantly concentrated like Adolf
Came all the way four hours in your auto
Showed up at my school, saying we hit the lotto
Popped a bottle then we saw that we misread it at second glance
That's when I learned life isn't up to chance
[Chorus: CJ Fly]
Scratch off?
Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid
So grandma can I get a scratch off?
When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day
So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)
Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)