Caught In The Hustle-Immortal Technique

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[00:00.00]Caught In The Hustle - Immortal Technique
[00:21.30]They say the odds against me
[00:22.43]Are crooked and impossible
[00:23.30]Like I was born with a hole in my heart is an obstacle
[00:26.42]I was left to die by the doctors
[00:27.79]In the Children's Hospital
[00:29.04]But I never lose hope
[00:30.35]Success is psychological
[00:31.72]The world is volatile and the street is my education
[00:34.34]Shaping the nation like the blueprint of a mason
[00:37.09]While Shawshank record deals get you raped on occasion
[00:39.96]So I'm focused on my economic situation
[00:42.27]I'm like the little kids on TV that dig through the trash
[00:45.39]I hustle regardless of the way you talk sh*t and laugh
[00:47.82]A lot of niggaz drop science but they dont know the math
[00:50.75]Because their mind is narrower than the righteous path
[00:53.13]It's funny how on the block niggaz will kill you for cash
[00:56.06]But never raise the gun and cry out Freedom at last
[00:58.43]The cold war is over but the world is still gettin colder
[01:01.24]Atlas walking through the projects with the hood on my shoulders
[01:04.06]I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
[01:06.49]But then the general
[01:07.31]Would decide when their life would be over
[01:09.25]So I work hard until my personality split
[01:11.68]Like the black panthers into the bloods and the crips
[01:14.55]They said I would never be sh*t
[01:15.85]But now I sit and reminice
[01:17.11]Like Yeshua ben Yusef flippin through Genesis
[01:19.60]Ignorance is venemous and it murders the soul
[01:22.46]Spreading like a virus running rampant but out of control
[01:25.22]So if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle
[01:27.84]Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
[01:30.77]From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
[01:33.20]Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnels
[01:35.82]Write it down and remember that we never gave in
[01:38.50]The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
[01:41.06]So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
[01:43.75]How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else
[01:46.38]Immortal Technique in the streets back on the hustle
[01:49.12]Cause three strikes will get you life for stuffin cracks in a duffle
[01:52.11]Upstate behind steel gates intact in the scuffle
[01:54.61]Razor blades stuck on the side of pencils
[01:56.79]Hacked to your muscle
[01:57.47]But the emptiness is what bleeds you to death when it cuts you
[02:00.35]And its the lawyers not the inmates scheming to f**k you
[02:02.53]Trying to fight the system from inside
[02:04.35]Eventually corrupts you
[02:05.33]But thats what you get when you put a corporation above you
[02:07.89]And it's the people that love you that seem to hurt you the most
[02:10.83]Sometimes when they die you find yourself cursing their ghost
[02:13.07]But you make success nobody delivers your fate
[02:14.95]
[02:15.57]Sometimes you give and you take
[02:17.26]Since prehistoric vertibrates crawled out of the lakes
[02:19.69]And thats the truth about life
[02:21.12]Or to do it to ghetto and your car rims and your ice
[02:23.69]Because even though we survived through the struggle that made us
[02:26.81]We still look at ourselves through the eyes of people that hate us
[02:29.37]But I'm going to make it regardless of the trumped up charges
[02:31.99]And semi automatic barrages that empty the cartridge
[02:34.67]Post traumatically scar kids that try to be brave
[02:37.22]Because niggaz backstab each other just to try to get paid
[02:39.78]Turn cannibal like nights during the crusades
[02:42.53]Afraid of responsibility addicted to greed
[02:45.15]Beating their girls purposefully losing a seed
[02:47.71]As if we were bound to the destiny we used to recieve
[02:50.40]So if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle
[02:53.13]Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
[02:55.82]From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
[02:58.63]Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnels
[03:01.31]Write it down and remember that we never gave in
[03:03.81]The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
[03:06.31]So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
[03:08.99]How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else
[03:11.67]I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
[03:14.47]But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else
[03:16.97]That cursed us then only see the worst in ourselves
[03:19.66]Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves
[03:21.97]I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
[03:25.33]But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else
[03:28.08]That cursed us then only see the worst in ourselves
[03:30.39]Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves
[03:33.09]I used to wonder