What If It Was Me-Tech N9ne/Krizz Kaliko

[ti:What If It Was Me (Explicit)] [ar:Tech N9ne/Krizz Kaliko] [al:The Storm (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What If It Was Me - Tech N9ne/Krizz Kaliko [00:01.47]Written by：Aaron Dontez Yates/Samuel William Christopher Watson [00:02.95]Free your mind and remember [00:06.62] [00:08.08]Winners are not people who never fail [00:10.48] [00:11.73]But people who never quit [00:15.32] [00:16.41]All I ever wanted was to sell [00:18.23] [00:19.97]Records to the people make a lot of mil' yessir [00:24.32]Rap to me it was the holy grail [00:25.97] [00:27.87]I'm gonna go and do it I'm gonna never fail [00:29.84]Yeah but first I gotta make it out of Hell [00:32.27]Wake up and I see crime [00:33.94]All of us we on it's eat time [00:35.73]My homies love me yelling peace N9ne [00:37.60]At the same time throwing B signs [00:39.75]Throwing 'em back and repping the street I'm [00:41.60]Doing music and I'm writing beast rhymes [00:43.53]But my V slimes had no weak minds [00:45.58]Got with the music started a group and we shine [00:47.80]Music gave us hella hope [00:49.49]Made it up out of the bangin' and sellin' dope [00:51.67]We were stronger than a bottle of yoke [00:53.34]'Till one of our members found a kid to grope [00:55.51]Then your honor gave the peddy the rope [00:57.57]Losing a man the band began to slope [00:59.56]Never did think a plan was damned to croak [01:01.54]So doing it solo dolo stands the goat [01:03.77]Started making hella LP's [01:05.80]2000 all the way to five felt free [01:07.64]Because of the hand the label dealt me [01:09.67]But in '06 Fontana helped us melt cheese [01:11.92]Number one independent gonna be spending a ton of funds in a minute [01:15.21]That's when the government want the sums then I send it [01:17.32]In a couple of months I'm done and replenished [01:19.82]Everywhere I go I'm selling out the show [01:21.92]Around the world I kill 'em and everybody know [01:23.90]Whenever we hit the studio and Tecca Nina drop hot [01:27.34] [01:27.90]Even though I will go toe to toe if somebody bang on me [01:30.48]But I'm rolling in the dough and I'm really respected and protected [01:32.80]Chances of me getting shot not [01:35.92]Everyone loving the tech [01:37.01]Publishin' I get a check [01:37.98]Loving the cities that with me the people that call me the best [01:39.97]I don't have any regret but it's a bit of neglect [01:41.98]Missing my babies I love 'em and none of 'em leaving me yet [01:43.85]Feeling good like a villain should [01:45.89]In a mansion but I'm still in hoods [01:47.68]Not like Trayvon J's on [01:49.67]Khaki shorts with a red tee like I will and could [01:51.75]I can conceal it my permits say [01:53.96]If evil happens to swerve this way [01:55.89]Hope nobody deserves quick spray [01:57.92]I feel an angelic surge this day [01:59.86]They feeling my songs [02:00.94]Been doing it long [02:02.09]They want me to sell 'em my CD right outta my home [02:04.09]'Cause I'm in the zone [02:05.07]I'm putting 'em on in front of the store when a couple of police won't leave me alone [02:08.05]Why they tripping [02:09.12]I fit the description [02:10.03]It's two of them rushing me I'm on a solo mission [02:12.00]To get people to listen but they pushing and kicking me [02:14.02]I'm on the ground when they telling me cause of a gun suspicion [02:16.14]It was in my pocket ain't trying pop it [02:18.19]When they scared of a brother with a gun no one can stop it [02:20.04]Then one of 'em lost it and then I was shot quick [02:21.96]Officers took me to heaven I'm dead and with multiple rockets [02:23.95]Didn't matter I was good and living inside a mansion next to ball players [02:27.85]'Cause of the move he made was drastic now I lay in a casket carried by my pallbearers [02:31.06] [02:31.82]Fears what I see making 'em kill a G [02:33.92]Rotten apple in the batch don't tell the rest to flee [02:36.06]This happened in baton R O U G E even I fit the description [02:38.89]What if it was me [02:39.93]What if it was me [02:41.62]What if I never got the one chance to be [02:45.79]Everything and everywhere I go I wouldn't see [02:49.94]If by your hand you took that from me [02:53.89]But what if it were me [02:55.96]Laying right there [02:57.59]I'll never get up again it's so unfair [03:01.93]My babies cry out [03:03.86]You never cared [03:05.93]Things that we do make each other so scared [03:09.88]So what if it was you there [03:13.92] [03:15.95]Should I just take your life [03:17.94]Should I bust make your wife widowed withered hugging the pillow [03:23.73]The scent of you still on her [03:25.94]Spirit she feels on her [03:27.90]The whole world weeps [03:29.85]Blood we all spill on her [03:31.96]And I know it's ill will the pill's hard to swallow [03:37.63]How should I feel when I'm being followed followed [03:41.61]By the words that you say to me crazy [03:45.06]And you just saved my life take my life [03:47.87]I gotta fight all of the night with cops crips bloods with sore fists [03:51.87]I gotta fight all of the night with cops crips bloods with sore fists [03:55.87]I gotta fight all of the night with cops crips bloods with sore fists [03:59.86]I gotta fight all of the night with cops crips bloods with sore fists and them nazis