Unpredictable, liable to flip my lid…
My moms dropped me on my head when I was a kid.
Back then I lost all my marbles, today I lost my job,
So in essence, it’s Armageddon, somebody’s bound to get robbed!
Tag: work
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Sticky Fingaz, “Shiftee,” from Onyx’s Bacdafucup, 1993. More Onyx quotes…
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You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you’re saying, “They won’t know, they won’t miss it,
Besides, I ain’t a thief, they won’t pay me a visit.”
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?Andre 3000, “What a Job,” from Devin the Dude’s Waitin to Inhale, 2007 -
I’ve been layin’, waiting for your next mistake,
I put in work, and watch my status escalate.Guru, “Work,” from Gang Starr’s Moment of Truth, 1998 -
Niggas is too scared to hustle, but too cool to work,
So they walk around broke like a motherfuckin jerk.Meyhem Lauren, “Brand Name Marijuana,” Mandatory Brunch Meetings, 2012 -
My life is full of empty promises and broken dreams…
I’m hopin’ things look up; but there ain’t no job openings.
I feel discouraged, hungry and malnourished,
Living in this house with no furnace, unfurnished.
And I’m sick of workin’ dead end jobs with lame pay,
And I’m tired of bein’ hired and fired the same day.
But fuck it, if you know the rules to the game play,
Cause when we die, we know we all going the same way.Eminem, “Rock Bottom,” Slim Shady LP, 1999
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…Not to mention, I take authority horribly.
Fuck a job, nigga, that conversation just bores me.Obie Trice, “Growing Up in the Hood,” Bottoms Up, 2012 -
$5 gas and poverty rates are rising much higher than your hourly rate.
So if you thinkin about quittin, you should probably wait,
Cause everybody has to do a fuckin job that they hate.Phonte, “The Good Fight,” Charity Starts at Home, 2011 -
Day in and day out we do the same thing,
Tryina find the joy in our repetition.
Always complainin’ about the routine and the mundane.
But let me stop to remind y’all bout one thing:
Come hell or high water you can count on the sun
Always shinin’ in its untamed glory.Phonte, “Greater Than the Sun,” from Zo!’s SunStorm, 2010