Testo Why 4th Avenue Jones
Iâm reminiscing like JOE, staring at faded pictures
Through Satanâs tempting and death
Back resurrected as the greatest victor
Throughout my travels sampled great elixirs
Liquorâs and weed
Feel like Iâm bleeding, need a way to fix this
Pain that I feed
I toldâem âGo head I ainât comingâ
Bed being Co â Ed stop being fun
And I canât even sleep
Stress running my mind
Got diamonds but donât none of emâ shine
My heart is heavy
Every problem weigh a ton at a time
Stay isolated causeâ Iâm one of a kind
Fake homies claiming that they got my back
But every one of emâ lying
My label jerking me forever jacking
But like Jeremiah this fire got in my bones
Now Iâm forever rapping
I took the bitter with the sweet
Never quitters we keep
Teaching like ghetto Messiahâs to deliver the streets
Became a son of God as soon as I admitted Iâm weak
And gave back what was given to me
I donât understand why
(Chorus:)
I donât know why
You gotta lie
Think Iâm gonâ try
Take your piece of the pie
Scheme and you cheat
Cheat and you lie
I donât understand why they keep playing with me
I donât know why
You gotta lie
Think Iâm gonâ try
Take your piece of the pie
Scheme and you cheat
Cheat and you lie
Iâm a grown man now quit playing with me
No yâall ainât ready for it
I donât think they ready for it
Really yâall ainât ready for it
I donât think they ready for it
Yâall think yâall ready for it
I donât think they ready for it
Who think they ready for it?
I donât think they ready
This hip-hop, rock, soul
Is all we do around here
I spit a lot
Practicing flowing while Iâm doing my hair
From Little Rock
Some of emâ said I wasnât going nowhere
But I had confidence these poems I shareâd be embraced by many
Said âyou way too skinny'
Nobody gave me anything
Be singing at my job while I slave for pennies
I love emceeing
Love to be in the studio locked
Haters that knocked gonâ see me rocking at coliseums
I used to cry watching these video shows
Pitiful
Artist with silly flows
They gotta be kidding
Yo, why we dope and got it hard like this?
I donât understand it my band is making all these hits
And I feel abandoned by labels causeâ they all insist
I should straighten my hair to hit it
Iâm real but they donât get it
Every mic I lit it
For fans I stay committed
Want me solo forget it
We make a dollar we split it
Tell me why
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None of yâall ainât ready for it
I donât think they ready for it
No yâall ainât ready for it
I donât think they ready for it
Yâall think yâall ready for it
I donât think they ready for it
But yâall ainât ready for it
I donât think they ready
Iâm gonâ stay ready
Iâma stay ready (repeat till the end)
Ready for whatever
Ready for whoever
You ainât gonâ never catch us slipping
This is Hiprocksoul
It donât matter what they say
Tena Jones gonâ be ready
We all gonâ be ready
4th Avenue gonâ stay ready
We gonâ be ready
We gonâ stay ready
We been putting it down for so long
Iâm ready
Iâve been ready all my life
Iâve been ready all my life
So every thing will be all right