Dot Your Is, Cross Your Ts

I only wear pants with the tightest crease.
Ones to match my monogrammed fleece.
Im not one to people please.
'Cuz I've paid my dues and my gangster fees. 

Now I just live and the world agrees.
It's like I'm the oxygen to their fatal wheeze.
It's a secret garden and I've got the magic keys.

I ride in cars that you can't even lease.
I bought all your land that the govt. seized.
Still livin' luxe as your assets freeze.

Not a fighter. Not a lover. Just an A-class tease.
'Cuz I already know the hurt that loving leaves.
And I've seen the scars that fighting frees.
Never let go of your priorities,
Always dot ur Is, and cross your Ts.

Danke Shoen

Forgive me for my weaknesses
I don't usually talk of this
Head in clouds oblivious
Ignorance is it really bliss
What u don't know could be dangerous

Coca cola and the coca-ccaine

It's how I numb all my emotional pain
A lifetime of vice, just to die in vain
I'm a few screws loose from goin' insane
But you love me still, baby, danke shoen

Nothing glamorous about my style
High as a kite, in a cloud of denial
Searching for light, been waiting a while

Tired of this fight, & God putting me on trial

My love for crime it left me this
Hopeless soul and penniless
Wasn't my goal but it's kismet
Broke to whole, I'm better for it

Counter-Culture

what luxury, the umbrella of youth,
it was ripped right off of me
what tragedy, exposed to the truth,
forced to see a harsh reality.

So while you were playing, making jokes with your school friends
Blowing out candles, dreaming of the weekend
I was working thru the long nights,
just tryna make a few cents
Barely keeping on the lights,
struggling just to make rent.

It was cold in those city streets,
imagine plastic bags were my bed sheets
The shame kept me on my feet,
rookie or royal, no man can sit with defeat

Hunger was our baseline, no safety net or lifeline
got me taking risks all the time, grew fearless by the finish-line.

No, not a damn bit of it made sense,
I felt robbed of my innocence
Still, ride or die in the dissonance,
cuz nothing is forever, and nothing marks the end
except for when the fat lady sings or when you're riding top-down in a 5Cbenz.

unconventional defines me,
counter-cultures what revived me,
monumental decade of piss high potpourri
Method acting got the best of me
Not who I really aspired to be
But coming clean has set me free