[00:00:00] The Grind Date - De La Soul [00:00:02] If the meek shall inherit the earth [00:00:04] And not the weak [00:00:05] Let me inherit the street f**k it [00:00:08] You know what I mean [00:00:09] I mean I love life man you know what I mean [00:00:11] Life is beautiful it's just the shit in it that's f**ked up [00:00:15] It's rough but it's fair [00:00:18] People gotta go out there and bust they bust they ass for a job [00:00:22] I mean my dad's got five kids man and I mean yo [00:00:27] He hates drivin' a bus but he loves five kids [00:00:30] You feel me [00:00:30] I'm a rhyme artist [00:00:32] Out here tryin' to grind my hardest [00:00:34] Up early so to milk the cow [00:00:34] Keep my john deere out here plowin' the fields [00:00:38] To keep my john hancock's worth up in the now [00:00:40] Went from hangin' on blocks to hangin' on charts [00:00:42] Positions is parta my mission to hangin' on top [00:00:45] Gotta get your polly cracker or with them crackers [00:00:46] And them scheisty ass niggaz if you like it or not [00:00:50] I've been rewired to work more efficiently in the dirt [00:00:52] I'm hands on with it all up in my cuticles [00:00:54] Some try to get off the farm but fell into harm [00:00:57] Of gettin in the game of those street pharmaceuticals [00:00:59] But I was raised in those blue collar themes [00:01:02] Havin' white collar dreams cause I see what it means [00:01:05] And though the meek shall inherit the earth but don't forget [00:01:08] The poor are the ones who inherit the debt [00:01:13] You can bet I got better things to do than that [00:01:15] I was a dick who got jerked by Tom and his boys [00:01:19] Came on my land seized my cattle and catalog [00:01:21] As if it wouldn't leave me less than coy [00:01:24] But I'm far from bitter even farther from quittin' [00:01:29] Got a grind date to make no time for sittin' [00:01:31] And playin' xbox stand up and exercise my rights [00:01:33] As of by seen of through masta's eye [00:01:35] It's the grind date [00:01:37] Know what I'm sayin I'm sick of askin' that [00:01:41] I mean the street philosophy is that [00:01:42] I'm gonna milk the cow and cook the meat [00:01:45] At least I'm gonna have some kind of food and drink [00:01:47] Because sometimes you can't come back [00:01:49] Like momma said that if you need 5 cents don't ask for 3 [00:01:52] Ask for 10 that's for sure [00:01:56] Yo f**k a rhyme artist I ain't here for that [00:01:59] I was born with the boom bap respect the name [00:02:01] My hands on experience was hands on my first contract [00:02:03] Taught me quick how to respect the game [00:02:06] Introduced to the block got used to the block [00:02:08] But your neighbors be the ones who throw shit on your lawn [00:02:11] It's like every single time we pop they got annoyed [00:02:13] But we got ahead and we got along [00:02:15] And puttin' work on the calendars worse on them calendars [00:02:18] Worth of hump days that broke the camel's back [00:02:24] The grind'll make today look gray [00:02:25] And paint a tainted picture of tomorrows in enamel black [00:02:27] Meet the rhyme street grind son whatever the beast [00:02:28] I'm a take it at the horns till the pinky toe torn [00:02:37] And show you why we here this long [00:02:38] Cause when it comes to puttin' in work [00:02:40] Once again it's on [00:02:41] I'm just like everybody else man [00:02:43] An average nigga with above average potential [00:02:44] You know what I mean I'm not sayin' that I'm a gentleman [00:02:48] I'm sayin that I know how to act like a gentleman [00:02:50] In order to get the things that I need [00:02:52] And if I gotta pull out my nickle bag I'm gonna do that [00:02:55] This ain't no accident we stayin' here [00:03:01] You damn right I am proud of myself man [00:03:04] And I'm proud of my team man [00:03:06] I don't want you to get the wrong yo baby on the real [00:03:09] I don't have sex with people I do business with neither [00:03:11] And that's the real