[ti:Hustla]
[ar:The Roots]
[al:How I Got Over]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Hustla (Explicit) - The Roots/STS
[00:33.49]Let me tell you what priceless is some advice to give
[00:36.74]A sacrifice is what I made for the wife and kids
[00:39.52]They say life's a b**ch but it's one life to live
[00:42.39]I want my baby where that cake and the icing is
[00:44.97]Out of them crisis es off of them vices es
[00:47.98]They see what we do and grow up in all likenesses
[00:50.58]Really I don't wanna see 'em having to fight for this
[00:53.45]Story of the family biz I'ma rewrite the script
[00:56.39]Daughter of a hip hopper hustla like her grand papa
[00:59.40]Her destiny done been determined so you can't stop her
[01:02.04]From being independent earning paper and proper
[01:04.93]More like a lawyer or a doctor not a man watcher
[01:07.86]That's where your man got ya it's a big world out yeah
[01:10.63]I'm tryna make a black diamond or a pearl out yeah
[01:13.27]And hit the people to the way the world twirl out yeah
[01:16.16]And when I thank heaven for my little girl
[01:18.39]Please let her be a hustla baby be a hustla
[01:21.57]Hope my baby girl grows up to be a hustla
[01:24.48]Let her be a hustla baby be a hustla
[01:27.09]If not then you're only a customer
[01:29.32]
[01:29.96]Please let him be a hustla baby be a hustla
[01:32.88]Hope my baby boy grows up to be a hustla
[01:35.71]Let him be a hustla baby be a hustla
[01:38.40]If not then you're only a customer
[01:40.51]Sugar slim I'm slicker than a squid ni**a no kids
[01:44.16]No baby momma sugar freed from the drama
[01:46.69]Sugar be where he wanna no sweat like a sauna
[01:49.49]No judge your honor can't tell me how to raise mine
[01:52.87]Figure that in due time if and when I do find
[01:55.53]True love wooed up maybe you can blue line
[01:58.31]Ooh I'm caught up in the moment for the meantime
[02:01.13]G I'm all about the green like tree pines
[02:03.94]See I'm tryna get the scratch like a feline
[02:06.76]Hoping that my seed don't know the struggle like me I'm
[02:09.65]Hustling to make a buck make a buck and f**k it up
[02:12.50]F**k it up and suck it up then go and make another buck
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[02:15.74]Get the money get the money that's what I know
[02:18.06]I'm hoping that my seeds know a little more than I know
[02:20.85]I know I know but baby this what I know
[02:23.71]If we ever settle down well baby this what I hope
[02:26.39]Please let her be a hustla baby be a hustla
[02:29.31]Hope my baby girl grows up to be a hustla
[02:32.21]Let her be a hustla baby be a hustla
[02:34.80]If not then you're only a customer
[02:37.53]Please let him be a hustla baby be a hustla
[02:40.64]Hope my baby boy grows up to be a hustla
[02:43.52]Let him be a hustla baby be a hustla
[02:46.12]If not then you're only a customer