Lyrics Language: English Song writer/composer(s): Glenn Standridge, Vito Tisdale, Kenneth Anthony, Brian K. Scott, William Rahsaan Hughes, Raphael Saadiq, Melvin Adams, Ron Wilson, Bobby Ozuna
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Nappy RootsWork in Progress Lyrics:
Wise words being spoke
Y'all know what it is
Nap Nappy roots
Can I start this one off?
Okay
Each day I listen what the streets say
Like a DJ my Negroes scratch ghetto recordings
For my peoples, got the eyes of an eagle
Can't see us ever being at peace for a reason
'Cause we ain't never being equal
They got us believing we heathens, uncivil soldiers of evil
Reach up and assume the position, you know the procedure
Can't even leisure smoke hollow reefer
Without speaker search and seizure by the same police
Who murdered Ceaser it's brutal
Seeing them treat us like lower creatures than human beings
More so like aliens touring the land of Europeans
Seeming to have the tendency to think we ignorant
'Cause of our pigment, can't take away a niggas dignity though
So I pimp the industry hoe
And even when I'm rich I'm a pretend to be poor
My life's a work in progress, soon to be end of the road
But I don't stress 'cause I have been her before, you know
My life's a work in progress
(And even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My life's a work in progress
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
My life's a work in progress
(And even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My life's a work in progress
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
In life every step you take every right every left you make
You can look at it like chess in a way
'Cause life is best when you take your time
Don't make a move, unless you done made up your mind
Play by the rules, don't ever play the fool
Sometimes you play and lose but you still pay your dues
Come on everybody knows the cost to be the boss
Yea the price is kind of steep but sacrifice is never cheap
I learned that life can be sweet and bitter at the same time
It's the Ying verse the Yang, sorta like rain without shine
Sometimes against the grain you grind gotta grit your teeth and bear it
Matthew five, verse five the earth the meek shall inherit
Cherish the day before you perish away
'Cause who can say how many days your power last?
It's like a crack in your hourglass in a flash, the hours pass
An' then you're gone
My life's a work in progress
(And even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My life's a work in progress
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
My life's a work in progress
(And even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My life's a work in progress
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
Long life living that way will bring you close you dying
The more laughs one had will bring you close to crying
Cold unforgiving planet, yeah it is
Racism, community, a dope, a wrong did
I daydream back to the 80's when we was all kids
A stab wound kidnapping but only experience
Though at the time not a glock would blow in the wind
It's a good day in the hood to witness a stabbing
Now stories told to us, without tragedy
Seem like it involve bloodshed automatically
If you ever get a chance, just stop and use your mind
Observe the world for yourself and just check the time
Yeah, oh, yeah, that's right
My life's a work in progress
Smoke something with your country people
Drank something with your country people
My life's a work in progress
Thinking back in junior high when sex was the shit
Fein pussy now a day can get you killed quick
'Bout shootin' ball in now they 'bout hittin' licks
I'm playin' Nappy Roots just to hear the realest shit
Expect it to the best of my know how and my rapping wit
See next to nothing sugar coated in these cold streets
Whatever you do, be smart, tote your heat
Did I mention if you don't work you don't eat
If you ever get a chance stop and use your mind
Observe the world for yourself and check the time
Yeah, smoke something with your country people
My life's a work in progress
(And even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My life's a work in progress
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
My life's a work in progress
(And even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My life's a work in progress
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
(But I don't stress 'cause I have been here before)
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