Collateral (feat. Jake&Papa)

Can it all be so simple, Cory and Dennis?

Top 3's and chopped cheese all through the winters

Box Jeeps and Cardi B's off of the scrimmage

Mahogany behind the seats, caught in the lyrics

Do you know where you goin' to?

Draw up what they know of you

Picture that with enough space for whoever should go with you

Told me what we here for, same way it was told to you

My Saint Laz heavy enough to pray over both of you

Meaning, y'all and me is a-alike's for the bein'

Of time, time being a way to find you a lead in

Gil Scott Heron, Jill Scott, heroine

Hands folded for apple bags or you Elohim it

Be as it may, shit'll seem to be straight

And banking on collateral's what it be outta the gate

The beauty of it all, but you still see the decay

And counting's even prettier, baby, so either way

This shit feel like we living a life on borrowed time

This shit feel like we living a life being caught in a high

Been in jail since my daddy was born, but my pen is collateral bond

Oh, my God (Oh, my God, are we really free here?)

Either way, it's more than just what they sayin'

Say you look in the tone and it shows you what they portrayin'

They givin' you the tone that you need like you was related

Feelin' like to atone is to keep it from ever fadin'

Until you knew the tone you receivin' was off a payment

Like when it's two tones on a V that you serenadin'

Mike '92 tone on a Beamer, rock-away Red

Or white and blue tone from the D's all in the way

And it gets in between soon as you got it, you grey it

I mean, silly me for tryna Co-Op and New Day it

I be centerpieced like I was tryna two-way it

I preach Hennessy but I see the need to D'USSÉ it

The thought of pink bottles of Spade turns into spilling 'em

Overflow on the door like the redbones that deliver them

Yeah, be as it may, shit'll seem to be straight

And bankin' on collateral's what it be out the gate

This shit feel like we living a life on borrowed time

This shit feel like we living a life being caught in a high

Been in jail since my daddy was born, but my pen is collateral bond

Oh, my God (Oh, my God, are we really free here?)

And you in the back of a rental, in front of a bag of maybes

Like maybe shoulda moved away, you can call us the 80's

Or maybe this is ruined and you in for an awakenin'

And the tone that you knew was the root of why you mistaken

And waitin', and still waitin' and still waitin'

Told youngin on my second class to drill a way in

Word to any misconception that they drilled to us

'Cause you still shootin' to kill if you killing the shooters

They told us fuck it

Either way it's what we want, so do believe what we on, baby

I respond like we just here to pick up on some money

'Fore they tell us we gone, baby (We gone)

And they respond like get it how you live

And how you live is how you get it to God, baby

And I respond like either way

You put it, this collateral is all off the arm, baby

Without further ado

Things black people like

And away we go

Hoodies, basketball, track and field, being black

Henny, going to the club, Gogo's

Promoting their music on Soundcloud

Spinrilla, eating unhealthy, Obama, J's, plinting their hats

Oodles of Noodles, those are good as shit

Red Lobster, being late for things, anything Gucci Mane says

Living in Atlanta, going to a private school on athletic scholarships

Girls thicker than a bowl of oatmeal

Having a thousand Twitter followers, Black Jesus

Extremely long church services, praying before everything

Sucking their teeth

Obsessing over 2K and playing it whenever they can

Giving you attitude while working at their retail job

White girls, filming fights, hot sauce, wings

Bleaching their hair, who would do that, right?

Not getting married, Friday, complicated handshakes

Cookouts and barbecuing, buying lottery tickets

Having rhythm and being able to dance

Frying things, blasting music, not tipping

Black bubble coats, laughing, cocoa butter

Car mix, roasting people, bad grammar, Escalades

Black Santa Christmas decorations, Timbs

Being loud and obnoxious at the movie theater

Glow up challenges, any HBCU

The movie White Chicks, wearing wife-beaters

Seeing black families win on Family Feud

Anything Migos, when Drake releases new music

Bill Clinton, DJ'ing, talking about how much money they get

Using the word **** excessively

Yes, yes, continue, oh, great niggerologist