Caught in the Hustle-Immortal Technique

[ti:Caught In The Hustle (Bonus Tr] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary Vol. 1 (Bonus Ed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Caught in the Hustle - Immortal Technique [00:21.30]They say the odds against me [00:22.43]Are crooked and impossible [00:23.30]Like I was born with a hole in my heart is an obstacle [00:26.42]I was left to die by the doctors [00:27.79]In the Children's Hospital [00:29.04]But I never lose hope [00:30.35]Success is psychological [00:31.72]The world is volatile and the street is my education [00:34.34]Shaping the nation like the blueprint of a mason [00:37.09]While Shawshank record deals get you raped on occasion [00:39.96]So I'm focused on my economic situation [00:42.27]I'm like the little kids on TV that dig through the trash [00:45.39]I hustle regardless of the way you talk sh*t and laugh [00:47.82]A lot of niggaz drop science but they dont know the math [00:50.75]Because their mind is narrower than the righteous path [00:53.13]It's funny how on the block niggaz will kill you for cash [00:56.06]But never raise the gun and cry out Freedom at last [00:58.43]The cold war is over but the world is still gettin colder [01:01.24]Atlas walking through the projects with the hood on my shoulders [01:04.06]I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers [01:06.49]But then the general [01:07.31]Would decide when their life would be over [01:09.25]So I work hard until my personality split [01:11.68]Like the black panthers into the bloods and the crips [01:14.55]They said I would never be sh*t [01:15.85]But now I sit and reminice [01:17.11]Like Yeshua ben Yusef flippin through Genesis [01:19.60]Ignorance is venemous and it murders the soul [01:22.46]Spreading like a virus running rampant but out of control [01:25.22]So if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle [01:27.84]Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle [01:30.77]From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble [01:33.20]Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnels [01:35.82]Write it down and remember that we never gave in [01:38.50]The mind of a child is where the revolution begins [01:41.06]So if the solution has never been to look in yourself [01:43.75]How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else [01:46.38]Immortal Technique in the streets back on the hustle [01:49.12]Cause three strikes will get you life for stuffin cracks in a duffle [01:52.11]Upstate behind steel gates intact in the scuffle [01:54.61]Razor blades stuck on the side of pencils [01:56.79]Hacked to your muscle [01:57.47]But the emptiness is what bleeds you to death when it cuts you [02:00.35]And its the lawyers not the inmates scheming to f**k you [02:02.53]Trying to fight the system from inside [02:04.35]Eventually corrupts you [02:05.33]But thats what you get when you put a corporation above you [02:07.89]And it's the people that love you that seem to hurt you the most [02:10.83]Sometimes when they die you find yourself cursing their ghost [02:13.07]But you make success nobody delivers your fate [02:14.95] [02:15.57]Sometimes you give and you take [02:17.26]Since prehistoric vertibrates crawled out of the lakes [02:19.69]And thats the truth about life [02:21.12]Or to do it to ghetto and your car rims and your ice [02:23.69]Because even though we survived through the struggle that made us [02:26.81]We still look at ourselves through the eyes of people that hate us [02:29.37]But I'm going to make it regardless of the trumped up charges [02:31.99]And semi automatic barrages that empty the cartridge [02:34.67]Post traumatically scar kids that try to be brave [02:37.22]Because niggaz backstab each other just to try to get paid [02:39.78]Turn cannibal like nights during the crusades [02:42.53]Afraid of responsibility addicted to greed [02:45.15]Beating their girls purposefully losing a seed [02:47.71]As if we were bound to the destiny we used to recieve [02:50.40]So if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle [02:53.13]Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle [02:55.82]From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble [02:58.63]Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnels [03:01.31]Write it down and remember that we never gave in [03:03.81]The mind of a child is where the revolution begins [03:06.31]So if the solution has never been to look in yourself [03:08.99]How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else [03:11.67]I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves [03:14.47]But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else [03:16.97]That cursed us then only see the worst in ourselves [03:19.66]Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves [03:21.97]I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves [03:25.33]But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else [03:28.08]That cursed us then only see the worst in ourselves [03:30.39]Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves [03:33.09]I used to wonder