Common - The Food

[00:00.01] Tonight's musical guest [00:02.68] Two of Chicago's finest MCs [00:05.36] Give it up for Common and Kanye West [00:10.67] Drops this beat, yeah [00:13.37] Com's is, Common Sense [00:15.44] Kanye West on the Dave Chapelle show [00:18.30] Everybody got to eat right, y'all [00:19.93] It's the Food, baby [00:21.80] I walked in the crib, got two kids [00:24.23] And my baby momma late [00:27.34] So I had to did what I had to did [00:29.95] 'Cause I had to give [00:32.94] I'm up all night gettin' my money right [00:35.22] Until the blue and whites [00:37.97] Now the money coming slow, but at least it'll get known [00:40.88] Slow motion better than [00:43.77] Yo, you love to hear the story, again and again [00:46.10] About these young brothers from the city of wind [00:49.27] Like juice and gin in the city we blend [00:51.96] Amongst the hustle, titties and skin, fifties and rims [00:55.38] Y'all know the spreewells and trucks that's detailed [00:58.04] Heartless females that wanna ride in 'em [01:00.32] Felt the southside in them with raw hides and denim [01:03.23] Bent minds collide with them, a system that tries victims [01:05.98] We livin' in, my man in the fast lane pivotin' [01:08.77] On the block now, they sellin' like M&M [01:11.64] On the block get jump off like Kim an' 'em [01:14.37] On the block is hot, you can feel it in your skin [01:16.75] Shorties get the game with no instructions to assemble it [01:19.85] Odds right, it seem like the fight is dim in him [01:22.40] Call my man Cuzin like I'm kin to him [01:24.57] He tryin' to stay straight, the streets is bendin' him [01:27.01] I walked in the crib, got two kids [01:29.38] And my baby momma late [01:32.44] So I had to did what I had to did [01:35.09] 'Cause I had to give [01:38.01] I'm up all night gettin' my money right [01:40.65] Until the blue and whites [01:43.12] Now the money coming slow, but at least it'll get known [01:45.81] Slow motion better than [01:48.47] It's all good in the hood like rats and gyms [01:51.56] Fullbacks and tims, blacks and rims [01:54.65] Whether on ball courts, attires are ball shorts [01:57.61] We never fall short, with us it's all force like Air Ones [02:01.58] Some wave some air guns [02:02.93] The day of the fair ones is over fo' [02:05.60] Cats is colder than four below, whassup? [02:07.64] I go toe to toe, wondering if it's for the art or for the dough [02:11.22] Though I know to grow a gotta learn to let go [02:14.08] Though I know the dough I gotta bring back to the ghetto [02:16.80] Aeros or Tarot cards pointin' to the grind [02:19.30] Po' livin' and mo' prisons pointin' to my mind [02:21.71] Shine the light up [02:22.72] Clench my fists tight, holdin' it right up [02:24.83] Freedom fight in dark gear for the years to get brighter [02:27.60] Situations, the jaws get tighter [02:30.29] My man trying to get his way to higher [02:32.66] I walked in the crib, got two kids [02:34.76] And my baby momma late [02:37.94] So I had to did what I had to did [02:40.51] 'Cause I had to give [02:43.28] I'm up all night gettin' my money right [02:45.81] Until the blue and whites [02:48.42] Now the money coming slow, but at least it'll get known [02:51.05] Slow motion better than [02:54.24] Hey yo I, I know I could make it right [02:58.42] If I could just swallow my pride [03:01.55] But I can't run away or put my gun away [03:04.49] You can't front on me [03:05.73] I, no I can't let it ride [03:09.66] No, no, not tonight [03:12.05] No, I can't run away or put my gun away [03:15.19] You can't front on me [03:18.03]