[00:00:00] The Hustle - Common [00:00:01] Written by:Lonnie Lynn/Karriem Riggins/Dartanian Donaldson/Omar Lye-Fook [00:00:19] My eyes watch God from a place [00:00:21] Where times is hard hard times we embrace [00:00:23] Everybody want a yard cuz a yard means space [00:00:26] Being broke is odd and leaves an odd taste [00:00:29] In the mouth of the metropolitan [00:00:31] The hustle is hollarin' [00:00:33] Beautiful minds grind grind for the dollarin' [00:00:35] Whether dice scholarin' or white collarin' [00:00:37] We all taught hustle to prophet like Solomon [00:00:40] The young play corners Sean Jean modelin' [00:00:42] They get it from they momma black music is fatherin' [00:00:45] Blue and whites flash lights like parliment [00:00:47] In court non whites wishin' they had Cocharan [00:00:50] Tell your guy and them yo the blocks hot again [00:00:53] Aunties walking to liquor stores in moccasains [00:00:55] My guy got a gig on the side he barberin' [00:00:57] Married a foreign chick so she could get a green card up in the hustle [00:01:00] Just put it in your back and hustle [00:01:03] The paper's stacked so hustle [00:01:05] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:01:07] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:01:10] Just move and shake and grind and hustle [00:01:13] It's on your mind so hustle [00:01:15] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:01:17] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:01:20] First to the third I'm close to the curb [00:01:22] Toast to the bird now I'm posted to serve [00:01:25] Heard is a verb when you pour dirt on the floor [00:01:27] Bill collectors and the roaches working your nerves [00:01:30] It's a ghetto truck for a ghetto boy [00:01:32] To get in them ghetto streets and get him a ghetto toys [00:01:35] So he can come so just work murder rate is increasin' [00:01:37] I don't give a f**k long as my coke is decent [00:01:40] And my rims blind the whole damn precinct [00:01:42] Every time you see a head in my lap you know she sinked [00:01:45] I know I'm dead in this trap that's not how we think [00:01:47] Fifty shells all around on the ground can't catch a weak blink [00:01:50] Five went through me two stayed in me to do my duty [00:01:54] Only thing that subdued me [00:01:55] Two weeks same corner new freaks [00:01:57] New geese all white and 1's new sneaks [00:02:00] Just put it in your back and hustle [00:02:03] The paper's stacked so hustle [00:02:05] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:02:07] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:02:10] Just move and shake and grind and hustle [00:02:13] It's on your mind so hustle [00:02:15] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:02:17] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:02:20] Can't knock the hustle the hustle I'm in [00:02:22] I'm in I'm in too deep deep to sleep can't knock the hustle [00:02:26] The hustle caught up in the hustle I'm gettin' high [00:02:30] Can't knock the hustle the hustle I'm in [00:02:32] I'm in I'm in too deep deep to sleep can't knock the hustle [00:02:36] The hustle gotta hustle up I got to have it have it have it [00:02:40] Some rhyme some throw shows some sow clothes [00:02:43] Some hobo at the junction inbetween cars [00:02:45] Some enter in functions inbetween stars [00:02:47] Some teach some preach saying they seen God [00:02:50] Some put they money up against me odds [00:02:52] Flippin' real estate yo stocks and bonds [00:02:55] Dreams of rollin' El Derado's bumpin' El DeBarge [00:02:57] Whatever the dreams stay on ya deem the world is ours [00:03:00] Just put it in your back and hustle [00:03:03] The paper's stacked so hustle [00:03:05] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:03:07] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:03:10] Just move and shake and grind and hustle [00:03:13] It's on your mind so hustle [00:03:15] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:03:17] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:03:20] Just put it in your back and hustle [00:03:23] The paper's stacked so hustle [00:03:25] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:03:27] Gon' gon' get it and get me that [00:03:30] Just move and shake and grind and hustle [00:03:33] It's on your mind so hustle