25 Bucks (feat. Purity Ring)

25 bucks, mama, braid your hair

Sit on the porch, she'll do it on the stairs

Grew your hair out and you wanna get it twisted

Fed us many nights, ****, that's how we was livin'

25 bucks, mama, braid your hair

Sit on the porch, she'll do it on the stairs

Grew your hair out and you wanna get it twisted

Fed us many nights, ****, that's how we was livin'

I'll not get old

If I did with my knees, if I grind on my teeth

I know from the attic of me

From the bottoms of cleats, from the wayward it seeds

Arthritis in her fingers, carpal tunnel in her wrists

But to feed her kids at night, sleep between her legs and twist

While she listen to the oldie soap operas, smokin' bogies

On the phone, gossipin', tellin' home girls' stories

Girlfriend worried 'cause her son's in a hurry

To see the state Pen or a cemetery, buried

Ma replied, do her best, but it's still rough

Keep your kids off the street and away from them drugs

Doin' hair in the house, ain't puttin' on dangle

Daddy in and out, ay, who turned that channel?

**** turn a house, shoes steppin' on the back

Ashin' her cigarette in a brown paper bag

Smokin' joints, laughin', tryna get the part straight

For a ten, put your perm in, don't scratch all day

Hot cocoa stove, put the food in the bowl

Say that's how many nights it was hard to keep goin'

Now I'm trapped in a trap and the devil ain't forgettin'

Wanna see me dead of locked in a prison

In a system with division, only thing that add up

Fucked up 'cause a **** tryna get a couple bucks

Now I'm trapped in a trap and the devil ain't forgettin'

Wanna see me dead of locked in a prison

In a system with division, only thing that add up

Fucked up, **** tryna get a couple bucks

25 bucks, mama, braid your hair

Sit on the porch, she'll do it on the stairs

Grew your hair out and you wanna get it twisted

Fed us many nights, ****, that's how we was livin'

25 bucks, mama, braid your hair

Sit on the porch, she'll do it on the stairs

Grew your hair out and you wanna get it twisted

Fed us many nights, ****, that's how we was livin'

I'll not get old

If I did with my knees, if I grind on my teeth

I know from the attic of me

From the bottoms of cleats, from the wayward it seeds

Iverson zig zags, goodnight fast food

If we're really ballin', mommy cop Chinese food

If you really wonderin' why these people got issues

'Cause the rent owed and the fuckin' light's due

On her knees at night, pray a miracle come through

Daddy shootin' craps tryna win a pair of shoes

I been growin' my hair, 'bout to let mommy twist it

Out wildin' with my friends, even got my self a biscuit

Homie mommy smokin' with nothin' to lose

Now he's stashin' cracks in some hundred dollar shoes

Sittin' at his crib smokin' Swishers, gettin' faded

Told me, hit my mommy up 'cause he tryna get braided

What we gon' do? See that local dope man

See if he can put some money in our hands

Same one jump me, the same one front me

'Cause I'm tired of seein' my family fucked up and hungry

Now I'm trapped in a trap and the devil ain't forgettin'

Wanna see a **** dead of locked in a prison

In a system with division, only thing that add up

Fucked up 'cause a **** tryna get a couple bucks

Now I'm trapped in a trap and the devil ain't forgettin'

Wanna see a **** dead of locked in a prison

In a system with division, only thing that add up

Fucked up 'cause a **** tryna get a couple bucks

25 bucks, mama, braid your hair

Sit on the porch, she'll do it on the stairs

Grew your hair out and you wanna get it twisted

Fed us many nights, ****, that's how we was livin'

25 bucks, mama, braid your hair

Sit on the porch, she'll do it on the stairs

Grew your hair out and you wanna get it twisted

Fed us many nights, ****, that's how we was livin'