Live and You Learn - Rittz

Motherfuckers taking pics with their phones

The lights flicker and trip 'em like strobes flashin'

On my throne, sippin' Manhattans and Old Fashioneds

Hard to fathom when my holster get shattered like broke glasses

Smoke pass the Road Chassis, road map and slowed traffic

No classes, so absent, IQ is below average

Growing up knowing that no one is proactive

Soak up my emotions, they lowered this closed casket

My homies are throat slashers, gold snatchin

Old masses, gold fashion, throat bash, Girbaud for the Bo Jacksons

Coke addicts, all that they know is the gold habits

Won’t catch a break, fumble the ball when they’re throwing passes

No ladders, hit a low, you should know what the vocab is

Hoes flashed us back then, now they show us the whole package

Spin into the tree just like Jacqueline Onassis

Blow rappin', they told me it won’t happen

Wished they would have told me I would owe taxes

I should own my own masses

Growing up, you gon' live and you learn

One day the lord above gonna give you a turn

And when he finally does are you willing to work?

To go and get what you’re worth

Cause I can give you my word

You gotta live and you learn

You might’ve been through the worst

And it can make you stronger so forget what you heard

Just focus on the future, not the shit that occurred

This worm slither and squirm

The more you dig in the dirt

You gotta live and you learn

Fuck diplomas, we ain’t study much

Plus the drugs corrupted us

Fuck instructions, we ain’t know what structure was

Hustlers with dreams, my team would scheme

Then go stick up the plug, take a shit then run out

We ain’t cut out for construction jobs

Rhyming ain’t my hobby, couple of my homies love the rush

Like the sight of blood and guts and fighting

Guys would knuckle up

Think cause you got muscles you gon' win this scuffle?

We gon' sucker punch you, jump you

What the fuck, you thought that we was touching gloves?

Usually dudes would grab they gun and bust you when they buttons push

Murders and abductions, seeing shit you can’t recover from

Trust is gone the moment that your homie fucked the one you love

So now you’re drunk as fuck and paying aces at the rub and tug

I got it coming cause I used to rub my nuts and cuss

Spittin' in the food when I was cooking at the country club

But I was young and dumb, destructive saying fuck so and so

Such and such, who is who, enough’s enough

Growing up, you gon' live and you learn

One day the lord above gonna give you a turn

And when he finally does are you willing to work?

To go and get what you’re worth

Cause I can give you my word

You gotta live and you learn

You might’ve been through the worst

And it can make you stronger so forget what you heard

Just focus on the future, not the shit that occurred

This worm slither and squirm

The more you dig in the dirt

You gotta live and you learn

Homies stealin crotch rockets, I watched em

Taking blow torches to vacuums at car washes

The kid that sat beside me in class was an armed robber

Our fathers walked off, we lost morals, lost marbles

Stabbed David, shot Charles, who gon' fall out next?

The chick I went to school with, she a shot out mess

She the type that shouldn’t be allowed to pop out kids

She pregnant with another baby while she shot up meth

We a product of our environment, why are we so incapable?

Learning from our mistakes to escape what we afraid to move

A slave to all our vices, providing the price, we paid to lose

But came to prey the food for all the lions, tigers, sabertooths

I made it through, I’m like a ragin' bull inside a china shop

I survived the shots they fired on the firing squad

I just tied the knot, I used to say my timing’s off

Forgot a lot of shit, but I remember I was taught

Growing up, you gon' live and you learn

One day the lord above gonna give you a turn

And when he finally does are you willing to work?

To go and get what you’re worth

Cause I can give you my word

You gotta live and you learn

You might’ve been through the worst

And it can make you stronger so forget what you heard

Just focus on the future, not the shit that occurred

This worm slither and squirm

The more you dig in the dirt

You gotta live and you learn