"Grown man" bars

[double0suge]

Everybody looking for somebody else to blame, ashamed to let his mama know that he was in the game...

Big Mike '6 feet deep'

 

[double0suge]

Lil boosie song 'chill out'

 

[MorganFreemanKing]

Right hand on the Bible, left hand in the air

Before I spoke one word, made sure my throat was clear

A-hem, I'm a prisoner of circumstance

Frail nigga, I couldn't much work with my hands

But my mind was strong, I grew where you hold your blacks up

Trap us, expect us not to pick gats up

Where you drop your cracks off by the Mack trucks

Destroy our dreams of lawyers and actors

Keep us spiralin, goin backwards

At age nine, saw my first hate crime

Blindfolded, expected to walk a straight line

Mind molded, taught to love you and hate mine

Climbed over it, at a early age, Jay shined

Fuck the system at Lady Justice I blaze nine

Your Honor, I no longer kill my people, I raise mine

The soul of Mumia in this modern day time

Jay-z - Dope Man

 

[soul rattler]

Selling drugs doesn't equate to "grown man shit".

No one said it did.

Really?

These are confessions, I promise progression/

Where Im from, selling drugs is a honest profession/

-kiss

Selling drugs ain't shit to a grown man. Women and kids do it too so you must be passing up alot of opportunities to resort to selling. Somebody dropped the ball if that's what you gotta do.

Also, struggling ain't necessarily grown man shit either. The homeless struggle. The sick struggle. Gangs struggle. Losers struggle too. Maybe my definition of grown man shit is different from yall, but to me, prevailing against the odds and being a leader is grown man shit... not adding to the problems in your community.

 

[hnic1978]

Selling drugs doesn't equate to "grown man shit".

No one said it did.

Really?

These are confessions, I promise progression/

Where Im from, selling drugs is a honest profession/

-kiss

Selling drugs ain't shit to a grown man. Women and kids do it too so you must be passing up alot of opportunities to resort to selling. Somebody dropped the ball if that's what you gotta do.

Also, struggling ain't necessarily grown man shit either. The homeless struggle. The sick struggle. Gangs struggle. Losers struggle too. Maybe my definition of grown man shit is different from yall, but to me, prevailing against the odds and being a leader is grown man shit... not adding to the problems in your community.

Sorry but grown man and struggle goes hand in hand. The songs i posted is something i can relate with not because i sell drugs but because my situation i gotta do what i gotta do to survive. Grown man shit is doing shit you don't want to do but you got kids to take care of.

I'm gonna quote the beginning of Grind Date De La Soul

If the meek shall inherit the earth and not the weak Let me inherit the street, fuck it You know what I mean? I mean, I love life, man You know what I mean, life is beautiful It's just the shit in it that's fucked up It's rough but it's fair People gotta go out there and bust they, bust they ass for a job I mean, my dad's got five kids, man and I mean you know He hates drivin' a bus but he loves five kids You feel me?

GROWN MAN SHIT!!!!!

 

[soul rattler]

What does any of that have to do with drugs, fam? I'm talkin bout drugs specifically. You ain't gotta struggle to be a grown man and not all grown men struggle. If your family is hurtin, and you feel like selling is your only option to support your household, that's on you. Supporting your's is grown man shit, deciding to sell drugs as if you have no other choice is NOT grown man shit. That's ignorant shit.

 

[hnic1978]

What does any of that have to do with drugs, fam? I'm talkin bout drugs specifically. You ain't gotta struggle to be a grown man and not all grown men struggle. If your family is hurtin, and you feel like selling is your only option to support your household, that's on you. Supporting your's is grown man shit, deciding to sell drugs as if you have no other choice is NOT grown man shit. That's ignorant shit.

Not everybody that sells drugs do it cuz they wanna do it. We all know people with felonies that society has jus shut out of the world and when u face with the pressure of having to provide for ur family what u gonna do. I'm not condoning it but i'm not condeming it either. Yes ALL GROWN MEN STRUGGLE u may reach a point in life where u r not struggling anymore but in the process of reaching ur goal some struggle took place. Everybody's story is different but we all struggle at some point in life......some people struggle all their life

 

[bankrupt baller]

im confused

 

[soul rattler]

What does any of that have to do with drugs, fam? I'm talkin bout drugs specifically. You ain't gotta struggle to be a grown man and not all grown men struggle. If your family is hurtin, and you feel like selling is your only option to support your household, that's on you. Supporting your's is grown man shit, deciding to sell drugs as if you have no other choice is NOT grown man shit. That's ignorant shit.

Not everybody that sells drugs do it cuz they wanna do it. We all know people with felonies that society has jus shut out of the world and when u face with the pressure of having to provide for ur family what u gonna do. I'm not condoning it but i'm not condeming it either. Yes ALL GROWN MEN STRUGGLE u may reach a point in life where u r not struggling anymore but in the process of reaching ur goal some struggle took place. Everybody's story is different but we all struggle at some point in life......some people struggle all their life

I know how fucked up it is for felons. A nigga that's like my brother is a felon and it took him forever to even land a job interview. The job ain't shit but being a man is making hard decisions: either put your freedom on the line doing some shit you ain't got no business doing just to get fast money, or grind it out till you get out your rut.

I didn't say that everybody that sells drugs does it because they want to. I'm saying that you sell drugs because you choose that life over other options, for whatever reason.

Again, struggling doesn't make you a man. It's what you do in the midst of your struggle that determines your character. It's alot of dumbasses out here struggling because they made dumbass decisions. That don't make them "men".

 

[hnic1978]

What does any of that have to do with drugs, fam? I'm talkin bout drugs specifically. You ain't gotta struggle to be a grown man and not all grown men struggle. If your family is hurtin, and you feel like selling is your only option to support your household, that's on you. Supporting your's is grown man shit, deciding to sell drugs as if you have no other choice is NOT grown man shit. That's ignorant shit.

Not everybody that sells drugs do it cuz they wanna do it. We all know people with felonies that society has jus shut out of the world and when u face with the pressure of having to provide for ur family what u gonna do. I'm not condoning it but i'm not condeming it either. Yes ALL GROWN MEN STRUGGLE u may reach a point in life where u r not struggling anymore but in the process of reaching ur goal some struggle took place. Everybody's story is different but we all struggle at some point in life......some people struggle all their life

I know how fucked up it is for felons. A nigga that's like my brother is a felon and it took him forever to even land a job interview. The job ain't shit but being a man is making hard decisions: either put your freedom on the line doing some shit you ain't got no business doing just to get fast money, or grind it out till you get out your rut.

I didn't say that everybody that sells drugs does it because they want to. I'm saying that you sell drugs because you choose that life over other options, for whatever reason.



Again, struggling doesn't make you a man. It's what you do in the midst of your struggle that determines your character. It's alot of dumbasses out here struggling because they made dumbass decisions. That don't make them "men".

Now we on the same page cuz i agree with u. But in reference to some of the lyrics I can relate to songs that talk more about doing what i gotta do instead of rappers that glorify the BS.

 

[dbrazil412]

since this is t-rex's lil slogan.. why not quote some 'grown man' battle bars...

tsu surf - and fuck yo swag pussy.. we dont do it for no mafucka louie hats, cause i been to a place where there aint no mafuckin louie at.. and them same og's that told me never change when you winnin, said just cause he look like he get it dont mean he got it. the ones that usually have it, you never really could spot it..and the ones that flash aint got enough or they dumb so they dont hide it.. question: if all ya money on ya outfit, then what the fuck is in ya pocket?? (vs conceited)

tsu surf- (same battle) why you paying so much attention to a life thats not free? i dont glorify shit, cause if i aint get them, they woulda got me !

 

[dbrazil412]

loaded lux (3rd round vs calicoe) - You see, I take in mind your situation and though I never met your father, I see a lot of his ways in your stride I mean, you got that “talk it like I walk it” kind of attitude.. and you know it’s real good he gave you pride..Every son should be proud of his father, and I look at my little one, and I want the same for mine

That’s why when I look up at you, I see what he can go through when a father don’t take the time

lux - That’s why I’m angry guy, ‘cause he didn’t take the steps

Now you chase his rep but them runnin shoes ain’t your size

They say don’t whine over spilled milk but what’s a man supposed to do when his baby’s cryin?

Oh he say shit like, “You know, it costs to be the boss”

What, he too good for a payin job?

What was wrong with bein a cable guy, a real estate agent

Why was that nigga to cool to go to flight school and learn how to fly planes through the friendly skies

But nah, he told you he had to do what he had to do to put food on y’all plate to dine

You mean you tell me all that slangin and bangin was to give y’all greater lives?

When God gave him drive?

And that Big Meech backup singin ass nigga left your mom out here alone for the latest ride?

That don’t plague your mind? Them mistakes ain’t guides?

And you wonder why them Shotgun Suge shells still ache your spine?

 

[dbrazil412]

lux's whole 3rd round was filled with grown man bars lol.. ' i'm just tryin to give you the larger picture, yo pops wasnt a gangsta, he was just another lost nigga'

 

[unspoken_respect]

Mr. Lif - Pull Out Your Cut

Lif, a new state of mind, new state of being

Constantly striving to understand what you're seeing

Finding the courage to stop fleeing

Problems that lie within

So this is where we begin

Self-esteem: something that's diminishing

Look upon the faces of the youth you'll see them withering

Societal pressures can be imprisoning

Look at the effects that they have on us all is rather riveting

How many women you know with eating disorders?

How much makeup on the faces of our pre-pubescent daughters?

Dudes are acting macho and they don't know why

A famous never-written motto is that "boys should never cry"

Keep all those emotions bottled up, now what's up?

You can't communicate once you became an adult

Situations got raw 'cause you had lockjaw

Your kids ended up learning about life from a pop star

But I feel that rap is more real

Matter of fact this music's gotten me through many an ordeal

I was laying on a stretcher kicking rhymes by Eazy-E

After falling off my bike while holding food from Mickey D's

So I chilled, had to calm my mental state

Happy with the knowledge that the music helped me meditate

And while I'm healing waiting for this world to erupt

You can catch me sitting next to my crate pulling out cuts

 

[jono]

Man Scarface "Keep Me Down" is full of em:

[Verse 2]

So what I rap about these streets

That don't make me be no less of a man

Than a person that do work with his hands

It's bad enough I gots to deal with all these pressures that stand

You tryin' to make me stray away from my plan

Know what I'm sayin'?

I'm from the gutter, where all we had was one another

No wheat bread to butter, from one bed to the other

All uncles and no brother

My mother's at work

My grandfather was my dad

And when he died it hurt

And as I hold back the tears my eye-wells swell

I been praying for heaven, I been living in hell

And these niggas in my age group is dead or either locked up

The bitches no better, they smoked out or knocked up

But I still love my hood, that's where it started

Ain't no hard feelings, we partners nigga, regardless

That's why you always see me coming around

Cause I could never turn my back on my town

.

[Verse 3]

Money never changed me

Money changed the people around

Now they plot to try to keep me down

But still I rise like yeast

Your whole conversation bout B

Fuck a nigga talking bout me, I'm a G

The realest motherfucker ever done it

You can't continue to pimp me and y'all eat from it

So fuck every soul who ever felt like I owed

Them a god damn dime, or a god damn rhyme or a god damn chance

Motherfucker you sad

You a grown ass man, holding a nigga hand

Now get out on your own, stop depending on your homes

To chuck you a bone, and stop throwing stones

And that goes for everybody thinking it's them

Fuck you, you and you

Her, him and him

Tom, Dick and Kim

All of y'all stand accused

Saying fuck to me

And I done bought your children's shoes

 

[antarticp]

"i keep putting money up in my pocket

cant none of u niggaz stop it

try to i wont cock it

imma 911 the cops bitch

yeah thats what imma do

i make an honest living dude

the opposite of what u do

and i pay taxes too

some imma use what i pay for

sorry it is what it is

you done play yours

cards u just chose the wrong ones"

~ Antartic P

real grown man bars something you gotta deal with lol

 

[Say What]

I let you stay in my crib, now you know where I live

when you was hungry, fed you a hot meal, look at the hand you deal

me crudball business giving niggers inches so here, take a foot

luck only counts in rabbit's feet and horseshoes,

experience is sometimes the best teacher until we get our own plate

I hope you don't mind me eating off of yours...

Andre 3000 - Mainstream

That was Kujo not 3000

 

[chocol8b0y1da]

All of my words to enemies it is poison,

Rappers only talkin bout keyz it's all poison,

How could you call ya self MC's you ain't poision,

Think about the kids you mislead with the poision,

And any thoughts of taking me down is all poison,

Who want beef now, my heat will anoint them...plow

 

[bankrupt baller]

joe owns this thread

 

[mr.october]

Then I knew it's (something)

That was bigger than the money and the fame

The fact that so many can change

Keeps (bothering me)

Yo but who am I to judge

It's been a while since I did it for the love

Or (whatever it is)

I gotta pay for it

Sometimes happiness the only thing I pray for

(I can't leave it alone)

The will to ask questions like

How can George bush receive blessings?

But I'm knowin that it's (something)

Or something's that I cannot explain

Forget, forgive the change and the pain

(Gotta hold on me)

I gotta gun to keep me safe

Sometimes I drink and smoke to get away

Because it's (something)

That I know ain't right

Pops forgive me but this can't be life

And it's (botherin me)

Because I wanna do better

But this rain seem to pour forever

So (whatever it is)

I feen for it, think of it, speak on it

Wish for it, dream of it, and Lord

(I can't leave it alone)

No I can't leave it alone

Big KRIT - Something