The Mindstraights-Five Fingers of Funk/DJ Chill/Pete Miser

[ti:The Mindstraights] [ar:Five Fingers of Funk] [al:Slap Me Five] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mindstraights - Five Fingers of Funk/DJ Chill/Pete Miser [00:24.06]Kids are caught going the wrong way [00:25.40]Mindstraights tapping you [00:26.57]Worried in a flurry about the clout [00:27.92]And kids capping you [00:28.95]Only thirteen another dream seems unreachable [00:30.73] [00:31.35]Reality's a salary morality's unreachable [00:33.78]Look at his environment [00:34.90]What stimulates learning [00:35.44] [00:36.10]A look in a book [00:36.97]Or real cash money earning [00:37.89] [00:38.47]Yearning for a fast break papes [00:39.61]And all that [00:40.24]Hard work is for jerks [00:41.20] [00:41.75]What kind of life do you call that [00:43.44]He takes a look around [00:44.36]The neighborhood is good [00:45.06]And run down [00:45.62]Last night a kid got gunned down [00:46.90]'Cause there's money after sundown [00:48.22]Wants to get his share [00:49.26]So he dares to take a bold step [00:50.69]Knowing where [00:51.14]He's going showing a grill a right [00:52.23]And a cold left [00:53.09]He doesn't need school to act a fool [00:54.50]And create cash [00:55.27]Getting juice like Tropicana clocking a grand [00:56.90]And a fan with each flash [00:58.16]And smoke from the flamer gaining game [00:59.32]At a high rate [01:00.06]Now he spends all his time [01:01.15]On a climb to a high state [01:02.54]The Mindstraights [01:03.21] [01:21.82]A brief look around reveals [01:22.65]The reason for the Mindstraights [01:24.28]Conditioned by living a life [01:25.12]That's given to find papes [01:25.99] [01:26.64]The only indication of respect success happiness [01:28.54] [01:29.21]And if they don't find that they find stress [01:31.27]The quest for the look pollutes the young mind quick [01:33.44]"I've got a target on my back and a gun on my hip" [01:35.95]There's no peel under my heel [01:37.14]And I'm not trying to slip [01:38.36]He's straight fighting tooth [01:39.10]And nail just to get that grip [01:40.72]He came equipped and flipped on the next one [01:42.86]Gun to face laying waste or just to test one [01:44.74] [01:45.26]Run scadaddle or battle and show some heart kid [01:46.97] [01:47.63]Or come to where I live and get torn apart quick [01:49.93] [01:50.57]It takes just a second of thought to get a knot or shot [01:53.11]Or get caught by a rock or be taught [01:54.84]The rules of respect step the hard not the kind way [01:57.72]He's baffled when he's gaffled by the judge [01:59.18]And assigned days