My Roots Lyrics

I was down the street from them bouncy beats

Shacktown brought a sound with resounding heat

My OG's put a fur coat over me

And showed me that a dope flow is almost deceased

Down river just up the block from J dilla

A role model scratch that nah a father figure

The beat could a face look somethin taste bitter

And when my brother went away he took my tapes with em

This is back when my cousins throwing capital B's

While his daddy up in prison throwing capital C's

Before I ever even heard about capital steez

Say fuck the gov and what the capital please

Heard the beats through the grapevine shaking the trees

My older brother showed me heat but never got a degree

Had me dancin like crazy but never shot at my feet

Now my neck stay froze cause im droppin the heat

My roots go boom bap boop

And I'm gone blast that tune

Until the cops roll through

And blast at me and you

My roots go boom bap boop

And I'm gone blast that tune

Until the cops roll through

And blast at me and you

Now I'm preaching to the kids like listen to this

But these a kids a lil different they aint hittin' the spliff

They just pop a lil perc and sit and foam and lips

Or they double cup the purple cause they heard that it's lit

Maybe it's just different cause I moved the place that I live

They ain't gotta see the fucked up shit that I did

Growing up when I would cry they say tuck in yo lip

Where I live now lotta kids stuck to the tit

We heard knuck if you buck and we was knuckling up

And if you not good enough momma given no hugs

She would throw you to the wolves until you came back tuff

And she ain't paying no bail if you got caught in the cuffs

You got slapped in the mouth if she was round and you cussed

I was slapping girls ass's I aint know what it was

I just just saw it in the videos shaking the butts

Who knew when I grew up that I would turn to a slut

My roots go boom bap boop

And I'm gone blast that tune

Until the cops roll through

And blast at me and you

My roots go boom bap boop

And I'm gone blast that tune

Until the cops roll through

And blast at me and you