In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
[Verse 1]
As I precede to count my dividends
Plenty ends that I done made with plenty bitches
With plenty men that they done played I'm laid back up
In the cut with a cup of yak
I raise up with all the game that I've been holdin back
Take your pumps off bitch let me check out yo heals
We pimps from Houston Texas to California for real
My pockets hurtin baby I need some financial love
So get where you supposed to and, do
What you does, get your facial done baby
Do your physic well, no holdin jail over
Resent mail, no hoes with no clothes
Torn up and ripped apart
Domestic violence bitches want out battered and scared
You fake hoes take of your drawls take yo pajamas
Beat it with a hammer and scrape it across the ground
I found a new bitch for MJG, and the Luniz
This pimpin got me on cloud 10, I'm feelin zumie
Chorus
Hustlin, It's in my nature
Hustlin, don't be afraid
Hustlin, It's in my nature
Hustlin, don't be afraid
[Verse 2 ]
I'm creatin' havok on hood spots
The hustle don't quit until the good stop
But don't sleep we leavin' cars on wood blocks
An lookin for could be nots drivin by lookin wide-eyed
Gone acid washed jeans T-shirt lookin tyedyed
FM beats lettin loose on big trips to Vegas
Candy green polly dubbed nips lookin outrageous
Big pimpin and panderin, big boostin and gamblin
Everything is all good until police start manhandlin
Picture me grappled, scrappled, snatched up by yo asshole
Indicted on some chump charges that I didn't even ask for
Gettin hastled by wild boys, like gettin lassoed by cowboys
Any instructions given he put some more shit on like, now boy
Like I'm supposed to jump out my Nikes and start sweatin
Boss said anything, I'm makin the plan to start jettin off
Oo- ah don't look behind until my shoes stop
The only thing on my mind is losin you cop
Chorus
Verse 3
Someone's knockin at my door, oh, who could it be
Big baller with the sawed off choppin off all below your knees
I testify, not glorify, when I get high
Tell all that listen what I see through my blood shot eyes
My peers they die, why, over they set they ride on cheddar cheese
On they knees, how, one to the head behind them keys
I dip through, the town on a rocket ship sittin on twinkie
Smokin sticky, and breathin until my breathe get stinky
Pops that pinky, never could seem to get his shit together
Ran like DMC, left me livin thougher than leather, teenage eyes
Soakin up the streets like a sponge, drugs and guns
And freakin hoes seemed to be so fun, from the beginnin
I've been sittin tryin to be winnin, dissin bitches
Fuckin hoes, conversatin with women, workin out
Pimp ass nigga since my day of birth, its in my blood nigga
I'm gonna hustle till I leave this earth
Chorus
Verse 3
Nigga, it's in my blood to fuck around with these thugs
Straight villans, drug dealin, 38 snuff consume niggas buck pealin
I love millions, plus stackin them chips on up to the ceiling
Sittin on fat like banks, wit out no scratch and no dank
We gettin bank, to set it off like Jada Pinkett
In a major way, just witness, business flossin
Boss playas kickin champagne wishes before this rap business
Playas I went from rags to riches
To havin cash and bad ass bitches
Since day one, yo nigga been slangin that A-1 yola
Hit ups savings, for razor blades and bakin soda, paper
Chasin, usin V-12 to swell up the cola, baby just shakin
Turnin the liquid form into bolas, I Chef like Raekwon
Those friends that want to blaze
One come over, dropped the napalm, until you scream
Straight cream on up, coughin up they lungs they come back screamin
For more when it's over, slangin these head rhymes to young soldiers
These ??? known as hustlers, nigga
[Chorus ]
(until end)
As I precede to count my dividends
Plenty ends that I done made with plenty bitches
With plenty men that they done played I'm laid back up
In the cut with a cup of yak
I raise up with all the game that I've been holdin back
Take your pumps off bitch let me check out yo heals
We pimps from Houston Texas to California for real
My pockets hurtin baby I need some financial love
So get where you supposed to and, do
What you does, get your facial done baby
Do your physic well, no holdin jail over
Resent mail, no hoes with no clothes
Torn up and ripped apart
Domestic violence bitches want out battered and scared
You fake hoes take of your drawls take yo pajamas
Beat it with a hammer and scrape it across the ground
I found a new bitch for MJG, and the Luniz
This pimpin got me on cloud 10, I'm feelin zumie
Chorus
Hustlin, It's in my nature
Hustlin, don't be afraid
Hustlin, It's in my nature
Hustlin, don't be afraid
[Verse 2 ]
I'm creatin' havok on hood spots
The hustle don't quit until the good stop
But don't sleep we leavin' cars on wood blocks
An lookin for could be nots drivin by lookin wide-eyed
Gone acid washed jeans T-shirt lookin tyedyed
FM beats lettin loose on big trips to Vegas
Candy green polly dubbed nips lookin outrageous
Big pimpin and panderin, big boostin and gamblin
Everything is all good until police start manhandlin
Picture me grappled, scrappled, snatched up by yo asshole
Indicted on some chump charges that I didn't even ask for
Gettin hastled by wild boys, like gettin lassoed by cowboys
Any instructions given he put some more shit on like, now boy
Like I'm supposed to jump out my Nikes and start sweatin
Boss said anything, I'm makin the plan to start jettin off
Oo- ah don't look behind until my shoes stop
The only thing on my mind is losin you cop
Chorus
Verse 3
Someone's knockin at my door, oh, who could it be
Big baller with the sawed off choppin off all below your knees
I testify, not glorify, when I get high
Tell all that listen what I see through my blood shot eyes
My peers they die, why, over they set they ride on cheddar cheese
On they knees, how, one to the head behind them keys
I dip through, the town on a rocket ship sittin on twinkie
Smokin sticky, and breathin until my breathe get stinky
Pops that pinky, never could seem to get his shit together
Ran like DMC, left me livin thougher than leather, teenage eyes
Soakin up the streets like a sponge, drugs and guns
And freakin hoes seemed to be so fun, from the beginnin
I've been sittin tryin to be winnin, dissin bitches
Fuckin hoes, conversatin with women, workin out
Pimp ass nigga since my day of birth, its in my blood nigga
I'm gonna hustle till I leave this earth
Chorus
Verse 3
Nigga, it's in my blood to fuck around with these thugs
Straight villans, drug dealin, 38 snuff consume niggas buck pealin
I love millions, plus stackin them chips on up to the ceiling
Sittin on fat like banks, wit out no scratch and no dank
We gettin bank, to set it off like Jada Pinkett
In a major way, just witness, business flossin
Boss playas kickin champagne wishes before this rap business
Playas I went from rags to riches
To havin cash and bad ass bitches
Since day one, yo nigga been slangin that A-1 yola
Hit ups savings, for razor blades and bakin soda, paper
Chasin, usin V-12 to swell up the cola, baby just shakin
Turnin the liquid form into bolas, I Chef like Raekwon
Those friends that want to blaze
One come over, dropped the napalm, until you scream
Straight cream on up, coughin up they lungs they come back screamin
For more when it's over, slangin these head rhymes to young soldiers
These ??? known as hustlers, nigga
[Chorus ]
(until end)
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