J Dilla - Love It Here lyrics

[Hook x2] But I love it here Just think if I wasn't here My uncles and cousins here My struggles and come-ups here We sense the trouble near You bubble, we double dare The block is ours and we don't wanna share [Verse 1] Feel my pain like it was yours Crack addicts busting right through my doors Bleeding on my lawn, I'm destined to be great I swear gypsy could read it on my palm tipsy I'm calm and I blow up like Vietnam bomb history I lost my moms but no drug abuses beyond 50 Sign of the times twist me til I'm found dizzy My punished and my blood from all the pimps that birth me Even when I was broke, I was wearing new kicks and jerseys I live among the sick and scurvy Til this day they can s** a dick that's dirty With symptoms of burning piss with pearly puss My words are just emotional Spoken from the bottom of the totem pole I gotta get a grip, like a rope with an open hole that's chokeable On a throat that hold a vocal tone My n***as push coke but don't discuss it on the mobile phone Just hold the chrome, they know it's on Yeah [Hook x2] (Talking) Yeah. For real. Real talk right there [Verse 2] Drive-by's, windows bust out, bullets put in the lawn chairs From a block over, soundin' like Lil Jon snares Life's gotten colder I'm revealing the smurf How's hustlin' not a job when you feel you at work My momma told me to keep my brain in them books I grew up learnin' only way you earnin' is becoming famous or crooks And since schools never taught us to be entrepreneurs And we don't have patience to make money off of computers We live a fast life with officers and shooters Get scars, strip bars with broads taped bras off of their hooters Such an ugly game, why it look beautiful from afar You in prison wishin' they were removing you from the bars