Labor Pains - Substantial

Tired of nine to fives in my case two to tens

Refuse to choose methods that others use to win

If my talent ain’t involved.

Working got my head hurting

To the point you couldn’t fix it with a quart of Tylenol

No stranger to labor.

On the whole, it’s pointless

If in the end I haven’t been working toward my goals

So I stay hunting for green like Lex Luthor

So I can dead any beef I might have in the future with my super

Man rent’s due!

We’re on our last roll of toilet tissue

Plus queen and I be having issues when doe’s tight

Suddenly I’m less concerned with getting my flow right

Restless barely caught a wink through the whole night

Running on fumes could blackout in an instant

On «E» with barely enough to finish this very sent…

Tense muscles!

Sometime I wonder

Did blacks invent struggle ‘cause we know it well

Rich in many things but I’m still broke as hell

And what’s red and black without some greenbacks

A fund less revolution is money the solution

More money more problem more bills less truth

More lies less you mobilize lets move

And get that cheese for cats get me

But I’m clever as Jerry so never you worry

I’ll provide for fam long after I’m buried

3 Months past benefits kick in

6 months past and I feel like quitting

Promotion after 9 a whole new beginning

Made insane by these labor pains

3 Months past benefits kick in

6 months past and I feel like quitting

Promotion after 9 a whole new beginning

Made insane by these labor pains

It’s like morning sickness when I wake up for work filled with ill will

Wanting to murder my boss like Kill Bill

The real feel what I’m saying ‘cause it’s realer talk

Wishing I was still a little kid watching Silver Hawks

Now that’s a distant memory now my days are spent

At the bar during happy hour sipping hennesy

Like it’s a remedy for these growing pains

So insane but I hope for change

Like homeless pan-handlers yall’d rather ignore me

‘Cause hearing this song is like listening to your story

It would be nice to retire at forty

But my mom hasn’t and she’s over age sixty

Probably do better if she wasn’t plagued with me

But they say babies are a gift from God

But they feel like a burden when shit gets hard

Over due utilities I’m knowing you is feeling me

These hard times are meant to be something you learn from

So hard work essentially is something you should earn from

Money don’t grow on trees but it leaves

And even harder to get for underground MC’s

It’s enough to make you hate breathing

Working two or three jobs just to break even

Labor pains is the reason why I ain’t sleeping

Fuck sloppy seconds!

Why can’t my people eat like they eating

Even when we ain’t eating we always cooking

Like Ope be telling me I’m hoping felonies

Ain’t in my forecast because lack of my own

Got me looking at your cash but I earn my shit

And try to save something never burn my shit

So we can cop homes a Brooklyn brownstone

And maybe I’ll own land back in MD

For whenever we need to escape the big city

So let’s get busy and start our business

We’ll succeed if our hearts are in it

I’ll work for me and not for another

To provide jobs for all of our brothers and queens ya’nahmeen

3 Months past benefits kick in

6 months past and I feel like quitting

Promotion after 9 a whole new beginning

Made insane by these labor pains

3 Months past benefits kick in

6 months past and I feel like quitting

Promotion after 9 a whole new beginning

Made insane by these labor pains