56: Mamba Mentality


Mamba Mentality 

Been awhile since he’s been gone…

But I feel like I just lost’em

Like one day he’ll show up

Like he was playing possum.

But i know hes gone and that makes my heart ache

Rocks me like Tylers fuckin Earfquake.

Call me gay if you like 

but I fuckin love the dude

Call me what you like, ima call you rude.

Mamba showed me how to live 

Hustling and grinding to make a steady wage

People think wer’e crazy

People think we’re wild 

Well, they’re right. 

And we just call it style.

Try and keep up, fuck nah, yall ain’t catching me 

Can you see me rockin that mamba mentality

All you gotta do is keep ya head up, 

Pac gave us the key.  

You fuckin with mambas boys, he taught us to be kings 

Don’t matter what color you are as long as there’s green

Like Wu-Tang says, it’s all about the cream

Listen to the lyrics and you can hear my dream

Nah, maybe not kings, but lakers, yeah

My hometown be full of quakers, yeah

That’s right, PA where it be all day

Learned to play there in the left way

But what mamba taught me be here to stay

People think we’re crazy

People think we’re wild 

Well, they’re right. 

And we just call it style

Try and keep up, fuck nah, yall ain’t catching me 

Can you see me rockin that mamba mentality

All you gotta do is keep ya head up, 

Pac gave us the key.  

Oh you through we were done but this still be happenin

Some say he was full of sin, full of something maladjusted 

All he be doing is fucking hustling

Tried to smear his name, those dudes are lame 

The man just knew how to hustle, drain and win

They just be hatin bc they can’t do it like that

Even Shaq got jelly talkin bout how good his ass taste 

Listen Shaq you a king but what came out of your mouth was waste.

The jelly come from no one keeping up with (his) pace

His mentality kept his body and mind in the right space

He dunk on all you, right in yo face

People think we’re crazy

People think we’re wild 

Well, they’re right. 

And we just call it style

Try and keep up, fuck nah, yall ain’t catching me 

Can you see me rockin that mamba mentality

All you gotta do is keep ya head up, 

Pac gave us the key.  

Looking like a Monstar 

with the heart of the tunesquad

Every king needs a little poke and big prod

In the right direction,

usually from the queens.

Don’t be questioning,

they’ve all seen.  

Ladies are Gods and most men FORGET

Treat them like garbage, like they’re just shit.

I think of how I acted as I spit this rhyme 

And I’m that too, it just took time.

Until i found myself, found my right fit

When I look in the mirror now, I feel less like shit. 


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