Statik Selektah - Can't You Tell lyrics

[Scratching]: "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" - Jay-Z 'Blue Magic' [Verse One]: Natural born hustler Satisfying a customer With this little box along side my jugular I got the voice of a champ, flow like the levee broke Fade away? I bet a Dre publishing check he won't I love money too much, I gotta have it It been like this for some time, I got a habit Of lickin' my thumbs And flippin' through ones and crumbled fives Before rap made them hundreds arrive That was me (where?) On that block, drunk with some of my guys With bundles and dollar signs in each one of our eyes Sometime we stay there until the sun would arrive When you awake, I'm in last nights clothes gettin' that cake Till the last bit of work was gone and then I skate So it's nothin' personal Interscope, I couldn't wait I need a release date cause a date mean doe I hope my fans understand and don't hate me though But yo [Chorus]: Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick "Can't you tell that I came..." From BK Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" [Verse Two]: See, in the game I came from we was poor So when you got a lot of gwap, you ain't stop you get more (let's go!) Don't think a little change gon' make me lounge You rappers ain't safe until the Lord send his angels down Man, this life don't owe you, you got a lot of nerve Everything I get, I get cause I get what I deserve Cause I earned it Y'all see how I design them words Some of y'all say I'm a nerd but it's easy to find a verb Couple adjectives and some nouns and give it rhymin' swerve And make it fly like when guys come and buy a bird See, a lot of my metaphors from the dope game If you ain't from there, you won't hear/hair them, you need Rogaine Truth of the matter is, I came up wearing no name My mom used to tell me, "Walk ahead" to buy her c**aine And food stamps held me down like steel That's a large part of the reason I feel how I feel But yo [Chorus]: Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick "Can't you tell that I came..." From BK Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" [Verse Three]: Uhhh Ain't a damn thing promised in the dope game Money make your man dishonest in the dope game I'm tellin' you, the guns the hottest in the dope game So please don't turn Carl Thomas in the "dope game" And get emotional, just do what you supposed to do Producers send more than one beat cause I'm tryin' to roast a few And keep my snare poppin' And DJ's hands choppin' The Ortiz high won't die, it'll keep the fans coppin' The haters is man jockin', they mad cause my Hanco*k is In big bold letters on checks and they waitin' on Flex To drop a bomb, I'm Vietnam, your boy ill watch Everything there gon' disappear like my real pops Hustler ambition Dope boy grindin' Don't forget I'm old boy that Snoop's homeboy signed (Dre) Things happen for a reason, y'all gon' know Joe name I left the packs I'm with the tracks, this my new dope game But yo [Chorus]: Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick "Can't you tell that I came..." From BK Y'all just be lookin' tough, I'm in the lab cookin' up "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game" Product of my environment, that's why I got the fire, kick "Can't you tell that I came from the dope game"