Tell It Like It Is (Explicit)-E-40

[ti:Tell It Like It Is (Album Version)] [ar:E-40] [al:The Ball Street Journal (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tell It Like It Is (Explicit) - E-40 [00:21.54]How can I help you [00:22.12]What can I do for ya [00:22.76]Looking for that china white [00:23.59]Girl that's so soft [00:24.21]If I ain't got it [00:24.76]I know where to find it [00:25.48]If I can get it for you [00:26.50]Boss [00:27.15]How much you got in your budget [00:28.00]The more you buy the less it costs [00:29.68]I could front you a few off the side [00:30.63]As long as your a*s don't double 'cross [00:32.41]You 'crossed a lot of racoons [00:33.47]Get your cranium sawed off [00:34.86]I got mouths to feed my n***a [00:36.32]I can't afford to take no loss [00:37.82]I can give your a*s a number [00:39.05]It's up to you to keep it quite [00:40.00]You can't be a punk about the hustle [00:41.61]You gotta keep the money coming [00:43.07]I'm out here [00:43.42]Dealing with these suckers [00:44.83]Stopping the fake a*s busters [00:45.74]They stab your a*s in the back [00:47.06]These brothers turn on you [00:48.46]I know when it's gonna be a shortage [00:49.66]How long this shortage suppose to last [00:51.10]I ain't got the weather channel [00:52.42]To predict the forecast [00:53.98]The plan is hustling [00:55.06]'Cause there ain't no work there [00:55.85]Ain't no job [00:56.59]So they stuck in playing this game [00:58.11]And the next thing they gonna rob [00:59.49]Bite the hand that feed 'em [01:00.72]That s**t right there ain't y'all [01:02.21]Two faced little ol' heather [01:03.70]Working with the law [01:05.17]Man no matter what you do for n***as [01:07.17]They ain't never gonna be satisfied [01:08.79]Tell it like it is [01:10.29]My whole thing is like [01:11.82]Why dudes be letting cats get in their ear though [01:14.10]I'm just telling it like it is [01:16.02]I don't know what the f**k [01:16.84]Happened between 96 up to now [01:18.50]N***a is hoes [01:19.48]I'ma tell it like it is [01:21.08]Man n***as is going out backwards man [01:22.94]Killas are snitching my n***a [01:24.24]What's happening with that [01:25.18]Tell it like it is [01:27.42]If there was a snake it would have [01:28.57]Bite ya [01:29.08]See you've been following [01:29.58]So many n***a you wouldn't even know what hit ya [01:31.49]Now you don't know which way to look [01:32.65]You don't really know which way to turn [01:34.40]Got you trying to protect yourself [01:35.35]With all the bridges you done burned [01:36.88]You n***as cry to us nowadays [01:38.10]You n***as feelings get hurt too easily [01:40.05]Might as well wear a tampon might as well be a breezy [01:42.63]A closed mouth don't get fed [01:43.92]And a lazy hustler don't get bread [01:45.53]Pimping I can't read minds [01:46.83]I don't know what's in your head [01:48.06]Everybody think they know it all [01:49.20]Don't wanna hear nobody speak [01:50.68]Shut the f**k up and listen sometime [01:52.04]Even if you an OG [01:53.46]Me personally I'm a grinder [01:54.56]Can't let no grass grow under my feet [01:56.05]Don't nothing come to a sleeper but a dream [01:58.80]A vision without a plan is just a hallucination [02:01.14]I gotta lotta folks in the pen [02:02.67]Programming on vacation [02:04.11]I'm gonna give it to you straight [02:05.43]I ain't gonna give it to you late [02:06.77]Imma tell your a*s what's real [02:08.08]I ain't gonna tell ya nothing fake [02:09.94]Man I got my own dreams [02:11.38]Everybody wants me to finance theirs [02:13.70]Tell it like it is [02:15.11]You know who I like I like that boy 40 man [02:17.18]He's 20 years in the game and he consistent [02:18.92]I'm just telling it like [02:19.60]It is not all of them but a lot of these [02:21.92]New dudes is ringtone rappers man [02:24.18]Ima tell it like it is [02:26.16]Fools just have one album out [02:27.74]And act like they just it [02:29.93]Tell it like it is [02:31.61]Same song third verse [02:34.19]It's from the heart it ain't rehearsed [02:36.54]The world is full of associates but very few friends [02:39.20]Don't wanna contribute nothing [02:40.10]But wanna help spend your ends [02:42.14]Think before you rocking your mouth [02:43.45]Park your tongue and lip [02:44.80]Watching who you talkin round [02:45.49]Never know who you're having dinner with [02:47.22]You ain't got nothing good to say [02:48.46]Don't say nothing at all [02:50.09]Thats what I was told [02:50.90]That's what I was taught when I was small [02:52.74]A lot of these so called [02:53.50]Artists got too much time on ya hand [02:55.32]Should be getting your money [02:56.19]On [02:56.56]Instead of hating on the next man [02:57.97]It's lonely at the top [02:58.94]But it's next to crowded at the bottom [03:00.61]That's why I always keep my pistol cocked [03:01.98]In case I gotta stop 'em [03:03.63]Stinkter in my lap [03:04.33]Trunk full of slap [03:05.05]Hollering at 'em back [03:06.38]People asked [03:07.01]Pocket full of scraps [03:07.75]Nothing but thousand stacks [03:09.00]I'm old school acting a fool making my [03:10.64]Presence known [03:11.46]I look at business face to face [03:12.95]Don't like to talk on phones [03:14.92]When I'm at a stop sign [03:15.72]Or a red light I leave one car [03:17.80]Space in front of me [03:18.61]Tell it like it is [03:19.93]Just so I could have enough room to get up outta there [03:21.76]Just in case someone try to pop at me or something [03:23.83]Tell it like it is [03:25.21]Thats how I was raised [03:26.18]I'm still a student of the game [03:27.70]You could learn from a baby [03:28.94]I'ma tell it like it is [03:30.41]Man I was hollering at my grand partner [03:32.30]He said 40 return phone calls and you'll keep your friends [03:34.80]Tell it like it is [03:37.08]B***h [03:38.14]You two faced a*s motherf**kers [03:40.06]You two faced a*s [03:41.05]I didn't just help create my music motherf**ker [03:43.82]I invented it [03:47.75]Everybody wanna know what [03:48.48]The f**k mob music is n***a this is mob music n***a [03:54.07]Poor a*s motherf**kers [03:57.29]B***h