Glue Traps (feat. Quelle Chris) - Armand Hammer/The Alchemist.mp3

[00:00.613][Intro: billy woods]
[00:02.773]For a sip of cold water
[00:05.746]Do it all over
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[00:09.468][Verse 1: billy woods]
[00:11.628]Real money's whatever's in your pockets when you're broke
[00:14.718]'Cause for that last twelve twenty-five, dog, you don't even wanna know (You don't)
[00:18.106]Prize fighter, past my prime, so it's gon' go how it go
[00:21.589]No dives, though, this deep water, can't just hop out the boat
[00:25.063]Haram on the shirt, damn right I want that pig smoked
[00:28.486]If it's good work, only need a couple tokes
[00:31.216]Recidivist, never gave up hope that we could move that dope
[00:34.186]Hold up, let me pull your coat
[00:35.927]What profit a man to gain the whole world if he don't have time to gloat?
[00:39.469]All-white crowd? I laugh at life's little jokes
[00:42.766]Some of y'all never got up at the crack of dawn to go to work for the low and it shows (Good for you, though)
[00:47.749]It's hard to get out of bed when there's glue traps behind the stove
[00:50.799]Bulldozers in the olive grove, soldiers switching to civilian clothes
[00:54.830]Every story tell a story that's already been told
[00:57.617]Everything's dead and gone, we only had the name of the road
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[01:00.284][Verse 2: E L U C I D]
[01:00.645]Stretch a little, take a little more
[01:03.433]Stretch a little, take a little more
[01:06.102]Down today, with a little subtle mourning
[01:11.409]Getting over, everything half price what he told her
[01:16.273]Shopping cart rolled in, loaded down
[01:18.550]Meat man pulling up in the lady barber
[01:20.567]3 Suns on Fulton, beef, pork, chicken, shrimp
[01:24.039]Work is work, he smirked, said it only gets harder
[01:26.898]Hardest working for your people, it be your own, send my regards
[01:30.285]Keep your garbage out our garden
[01:32.201]I scrub concrete with bleach water in kitchen whites
[01:35.651]Wash my hands a thousand times a shift
[01:37.959]Flip what's hid behind the pipes, it's only right
[01:40.548]Name a price, body, mind, spirit
[01:42.407]Feel it in your warmest void, behind and under
[01:45.369]Tweed and Corduroy, looping moving pictures
[01:47.387]Chicken backs and gizzards
[01:48.735]Crack your skeleton, it's Baby New Year
[01:50.781]Cross-town traffic, hop out on Gates and Green
[01:53.146]Black derby, not Nate Dogg with the pinstripe, step light
[01:56.628]Bay rum in the air, there's a word for that
[01:58.812]I'ma yearn it back, there's a word for this
[02:01.180](Stretch a little, take a little more) No tickets at the door
[02:03.436](Stretch a little, take a little more) No tickets at the door
[02:06.011]Down today
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[02:07.066][Verse 3: Quelle Chris]
[02:11.327]I did it, mama, I did it, pops
[02:13.602]Your boy done hung his hat a billion spots
[02:15.588]Rolling stone, moss don't touch me like soap on white folks' legs when they wash
[02:19.153]Or a colored Kente cloth
[02:20.858]Your subgenre's da Vinci-core
[02:22.786]These thoughts sound like pumpkin spice for D-boys
[02:24.738]Stress got me at a high smoking point, I'm like grapeseed oil
[02:28.184]Turning soil, left it caked in dirt, learnt I'm way too loyal, way too cool
[02:31.217]Gotta strip layers like working through nursing school
[02:34.907]Second coming of nice, rebirth of cool
[02:37.008]We hula hoop with the ring of fire these guys are jumping through, nothing new
[02:41.141]Tears shed for the bucket are two, so
[02:43.569]So **** it, can't be stuck in neutral
[02:45.439]Zig, zag, ziggy, business as usual
[02:47.412]Gang runs on numbers and liars, plug is for hire
[02:50.480]Old bucks tryna get back on the track and youngins to buy up
[02:53.532]Plus most of these Yakubian products making dollars in the industry are simply DEI hires
[02:59.150]If we keeping it funky, keep it a buck
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[03:02.354][Outro]
[03:03.968]What I expected him to be actually, was to be a militant
[03:06.315]In, in the line of Malcolm X, or, um, Martin Luther King, or, um, uh, Garvey
[03:15.460]And he was none of these things, he was simply a quiet, very conservative intellectual
[03:21.374]And he fit in very well, he got along very well with everybody there
[03:25.158]Um, I never quite understood why I was having problems
[03:29.322]Why are you smoking dope, why is, um, uh, all this discontented blah-blah?