The Grind - Erykah Badu/Dead Prez.mp3

[00:05.94]Every day is a struggle how to hustle some doe
[00:08.64]If you was raised in the hood well, then you already know
[00:11.52]It be days, it be good but mostly money be slow
[00:14.16]Have you ever been hungry before?
[00:16.23]Steady on the grind, steady on the grind'
[00:17.34]Cause I got to make it happen for one last to make ya know me
[00:26.91]Steady on the grind, steady on the grind'
[00:27.75]Cause I got to make it happen, ain't nobody gone do it for me
[00:38.97]Gotta get these dollars man
[00:39.66]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[00:53.52]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[01:02.61]Steady on the grind, deadly on the grind
[01:04.83]Money on mind, steady on the grind
[01:05.55]Steady on the grind, deadly on the grind
[01:06.42]Money on my mind, it's already on my mind, it's already on my mind
[01:13.89]Steady on the grind, deadly on the grind
[01:15.81]Money on mind, steady on the grind
[01:16.80]Steady on the grind, deadly on the grind
[01:17.67]Money on my mind, it's already on my mind, it's already on my mind
[01:25.17]Every day is a struggle how to hustle some doe
[01:27.78]If you was raised in the hood well then you already know
[01:30.72]It be days it be good but only money be slow
[01:33.33]Have you ever been hungry before?
[01:36.21]Well, I'm a freedom fighter, this killa keep him off his
[01:40.32]DarbiePeople army guerrilla, economic development down for manual labor
[01:45.18]Revolutionary hustler fund raiser, catch me doing outreach
[01:49.29]See me running the streets politically educated but never graduated
[01:53.31]Call me doc like my dude
[01:54.66]Shakure fight for the core
[01:56.10]Have you ever been hungry before?
[01:57.81]***** fa sure
[01:59.25]Mommy got a job makin’ 'bout six somethin' an hour
[02:01.86]She became the breadwinner when daddy was unemployed
[02:04.71]Working forty plus hours and kissing ass
[02:07.08]Seeming like the only honest way she can get some cash
[02:09.78]She struggglin’ she don’t know
[02:11.16]I be hustlin’ pulling my own weight
[02:13.20]I be hearing them fuss and fightin’ at night mad late
[02:15.93]Over economics; it’s logic meaning they don’t got it
[02:19.08]Living in the projects, money’s the only object
[02:21.81]She makes $280 a week, standing on her feet
[02:24.63]The ends ain't even meeting the family ain’t eatin’'
[02:27.21]Cause if taxes is ten percent, and the rest if for the rent
[02:30.21]Then crime is what u get and ****** is innocent
[02:32.91]See it really ain’t about if you eatin’ or not eatin’
[02:35.61]It’s freedom or not freedom, breathin’ or not breathin’‘
[02:38.61]Nother day, ‘nother way, ‘nother dollar spent
[02:41.28]Gotta make a revolution out of fifteen cent