IGH If you keep the house in the family You could keep the family in the house If you on the run, you got family in the South We used to watch Annie, are you okay on the couch My cousin used to slam me til I punched him in the mouth My aunty used to cook for 20 people every week My uncle in the basement even if they never speak He come up grab a beer sometime He kiss her on the cheek Know how to fix a plate or fix a bike or fix a leak Fried catfish bootleg Madea plays Nosey aunty like, Let me see your grades Smart aunty like, I could tutor him Crazy aunty like, If they fail him Ima shoot at them Small donations under false names and pseudonyms Family pots for school clothes Get the uniforms, not the cool clothes Having no drip like the pool closed Least I had a jacket some of the kids at my school froze If you not in the building it's getting bulldozed Gotta keep the crib man Gotta keep a spot for all the lil cousins to live in Gotta keep a spot in case somebody get sick Cause if one of us get on then everybody get rich We gotta stick together and looking at the puzzle We gotta fit together and looking at the struggle We gotta lift together and not just on the holidays We gotta get together it's either now or never Gotta get this shit together It's not the Yacht Club But you should see the waves when we float through the Block Club Neighbors on the yard like they locked up Kids in the street like Bud Billiken Old man used to be a Panther thug militant Community policin' Barbecue 2 trays a Harold's 50 piece and lemon pepper onion powder garlic powder seasoning Four square killa man Slap boxin teasin cackling kekeing crackin up wheezing This the homebase You gotta watch em, they a right time ya at the wrong place If ya on ya celly phone more than a phone case they'll take your crib to go slide on ya home plate We need CBA CBA CBA Barry Before they build another golf course library or send an eminent domain to Miss Mary it's gonna get scary young Jeffery young Larry We gotta stick together and looking at the puzzle We gotta fit together and looking at the struggle We gotta lift together and not just on the holidays We gotta get together it's either now or never Gotta get this shit together