Ready for Whatever

Even though my head in the clouds
I'm planted on the pavement
How I'm walkin round, people stand in amazement
I play a lot a games, where I been I ain't playin with
They so judgmental, maybe they don't understand
If your life was in jeopardy everyday is you tellin me
You wouldn't need weaponry just because of your felonies?
Consider this at least, I got everybody sweatin me
On the streets is people who won't rest unless I rest in peace
Killed my folk a year ago, still in my sleep they threaten me
Paranoia stressin me, ain't nobody protectin me
I'm dealing with depression from my partner dying next to me
Think cause no one's arrested they're comin for me eventually
This was all the things that I was going through mentally
This could be the reason I ignored the penitentiary
Not mentioning New Orleans niggas comin in the city
Killing all summer long, ain't nobody pay attention
Now is it that hard to understand if you listen
Either die or go to jail, that's a hell of a decision
But I'm wrong and I know it, my excuse is unimportant
I'm just trying to let you know that I ain't think I had a choice
For real
[Chorus]
I had straps in my ride
Gotta go to prison
You waitin on me to die you gon' be waitin for a minute
Boy I'm ready for whatever
Somebody better tell 'em
I'll be here when the smoke clear
And everything's settled
For real
Can't afford the price of fame cause it cost too much
The sucka nigga lame and they talk too much
That's why I'm ready for whatever
Somebody better tell 'em
I'll be here when the smoke clear
And everything's settled
For real
I'm a man, I ain't perfect, I admit it, I'm guilty
But understand, feel me, how am I filthy?
Cause niggas out there plottin to rob me and kill me
Five hundred thousand every year spent on security
My future was bright, but now it's gettin blurry
Cause niggas in a hurry to find me and bury me
But surely, God will deliver me up out it
I'm a fighter to the heart, I forever be about it
I'm a father to my son, asset to my community
Look at all that I done done, my good outweigh the negativity
Mentally, I was focused on not letting history
Repeat itself, that's why heat was kept in the vicinity
Yes officially I broke the law but not maliciously
Through all of the publicity, was anyone considering
My position and the logic hid in my decision
But they caught me with em, now I'm off to prison--period.
But is it that hard to understand if you listen
Either die or go to jail, that's a hell of a decision
But I'm wrong and I know it, my excuse is unimportant
I'm just trying to let you know that I ain't think I had a choice
For real
[Chorus]
I had straps in my ride
Gotta go to prison
You waitin on me to die you gon' be waitin for a minute
Boy I'm ready for whatever
Somebody better tell 'em
I'll be here when the smoke clear
And everything's settled
For real
Can't afford the price of fame cause it cost too much
The sucka nigga lame and they talk too much
That's why I'm ready for whatever
Somebody better tell 'em
I'll be here when the smoke clear
And everything's settled
For real
[Talking]
Hey, listen homeboy
You talk all you want man, you know what I'm sayin
Everybody entitled to their opinion
They like escalades, everybody got one
But the fact of the matter remain
If you ain't walk a mile in my shoes, you ain't live a day in my life
You ain't survive shit I done survived
You ain't have to deal with the shit I had to deal with homeboy
You can't motherfuckin judge me, partner
I mean, look at folk like Shawn Taylor
You know what they said?
They said had he had a strap, he done live today
You know what I'm sayin?
Now, true enough
I was dead wrong, I broke the law, I deserve to be punished
I understand that, aight cool
But listen man
I got a house full of kids, a mama and a old lady
Whose life is my responsibility
You dig that?
Now for all of y'all that thought I was just ridin around on some dumb shit
Hey, you know I'm smarter than you man
You know I'm smarter than you, dawg
Hey, if you think I was just bein stupid
Shawty, I got some motherfuckin Ocean Front property I hope to sell, homeboy
If you believe that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you, partner
Hey man, real talk
In order to understand my train of thought
You have to put yourself in my position
You can't expect me to think like you cause my life ain't like yours
You know what I'm sayin?
You don't understand that, you don't understand English, homeboy
I'm done talkin