Production/Mix: Thavius Beck
Mastering: Ryan Hicks
lyrics
THE HUSSLE…
(chorus)
Blvd breaks the back of the hardest
The ones who stand back and watch are the smartest
‘Lest ur tested and fail its regardless
dope make a man turn heartless…
Swift gaze, parlayed the shade and played the day softly, walked through the fire, exposed the wire, tailed an informant, back to a sergeant, a precinct-orphan, often defiant, a roost for the client, remanded compliant, a snitch for the system, they dissed him a kiss when they list him for death, an expendable measure. Stretched out the length of duration the stay at the station changed his view for the time he was facing, ace in the lions-den pacing, thoughts of the rats racing to sleaze the cheese he desperately needed, wished he was weeded to forget the reason, gaffled his frame on the block like they traced him, new his position, moved with precision, locked and honed in and cornered the goner was bass’n, the smoke he was wasting was wasting his frame as his waist was just dwindling, commence to fiddling and cue the soprano, alto, although he knew just a little, bargained away what the did to the heat lamp sizzle, sweat-bead drizzle, caught in the middle of the struggle, lesson to the rest in the hustle…
street lights go dim, figures in the dark, slim chance to romance the spark, made slaves of the ones drawn close to the flame, held the same regards to the game as the hustlers fame…in the shadow cast light to the plight grind straight through the nite, make valuable sales worth the flight… more or less and all too often, the luck ones end up in a coffin, blinded by the light at the crossin and seen by his enemies flossing, a kite flew and blew the killers through the green light from the boss when, there was fear in the ranks of his rising, the henchmen surprised him, rise when he least hat expected, collected his pack that connected his ties to the lies circulated of his lofty ambitions and his hatred, they stated his visions to take down the kingpin, war began with the words from the fake men he surrounded himself with and was mistaken, there allegiance was only to the grievance for his death so the next in line could replace him…,
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