That sinking feeling when you get older.....

[jilla82]

you dont have to be a square but you cant be fighting about dumb shyt
or trying to scam etc...

but there is a lot of money to be made via untraditional means

I imagine most "squares" end up frustrated and posting on sites like the Coli complaining about shyt they cant control and people they dont know

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

At least you got there bro. I’ve seen so many old brehs waste their lives chasing street glory or couldn’t break old habits. They typically die with no one around to give a fukk.

 

[semicko82]

At least you got there bro. I’ve seen so many old brehs waste their lives chasing street glory or couldn’t break old habits. They typically die with no one around to give a fukk.

I've never been a street dude. I've dabbled in some fukkery every now and then, but for the most part I'm a square.
I've been around street dudes to know the outcome of that life

 

[semicko82]

Like the great poet Nasir Jones said:

Growing up project-struck, looking for luck dreaming
Scoping the large nikkas beaming, check what I'm seeing
Cars, ghetto stars pushing ill Europeans
G'n, heard about them old timers OD'n
Young, early 80's, throwing rocks at the crazy lady
Worshipping every word them rope rocking nikkas gave me
The street raised me up, giving a fukk
I thought Jordan's and a gold chain was living it up
I knew the dopes, the pushers, the addicts everybody
Cut out of class, just to smoke blunts and drink naughty
Ain't that funny? Getting put on to crack money
With all the gun play, painting the kettle black hungry
A case of beers in the staircase I wasted years
Some nikkas went for theirs, flipping coke as they career
But I'm a rebel stressing, to pull out of the heat no doubt
With Jeeps tinted out, spending never holding out

 

[Digital Omen]

Same goes for 40+ dudes still trying to make it big in rap
Got a thousand mixtapes out and never went beyond the local circuit
Opened for all the big acts that came on tour, but stayed one hit away their whole life
43 and still up in the ciphers with the young bucks
No career, no long term growth, just "this is the one that's going to get me put on" over and over
But you can't tell em nothing because then you're a dream killer hater gatekeeper etc



Then again doesn't that happen all the time in Hollywood or whatever?
some actor that's been a bit player for 30 years suddenly gets a break and blows up at 50

 

[Complexion]

Street life
You can run away from time
Street life
For a nickel or a dime
Street life
But you better not get old
Street life
Or you're gonna feel the cold

All of the lyrics in this track are as true now as they were then, if not truer, but the above shows you how its just for the young and foolish. When you live for the night you tend to forget how they slot together to pave the way to a day you didn't plan way off in the future...

 

[Uachet]

I wish some of us would stop idolizing the streets like it is anything more than a dead end path to homelessness, poverty, prison, or death. Running the streets is a short-term means to excitement that eventually leads to long-term insolvency at best and death at worst.

 

[kevin arnold]

Same goes for 40+ dudes still trying to make it big in rap
Got a thousand mixtapes out and never went beyond the local circuit
Opened for all the big acts that came on tour, but stayed one hit away their whole life
43 and still up in the ciphers with the young bucks
No career, no long term growth, just "this is the one that's going to get me put on" over and over
But you can't tell em nothing because then you're a dream killer hater gatekeeper etc



Then again doesn't that happen all the time in Hollywood or whatever?
some actor that's been a bit player for 30 years suddenly gets a break and blows up at 50

Acting ≠ Rap

 

[melraH]

The message from father time is clear adapt or die.

Most of my crew I ran the streets with either dead or in jail. Over peripheral stupid shyt too. Their mistakes as well as my first born served me as a lesson to leave that fukk shyt alone. shyt is a marathon watch listen and learn or die.

 

[MajesticLion]

Find your purpose.

 

[Hater Eraser]

" Ain't nothing left to say though
I guess we forgot what we came for
Shoulda stayed in food and beverage
Too much flossing, too much Sam Rothstein " - Jay -Z "Lost Ones"

 

[B86]

Whats considered a square these days?

Anybody that’s not on some ignorant shyt; to keep it short…

 

[semicko82]

Same goes for 40+ dudes still trying to make it big in rap
Got a thousand mixtapes out and never went beyond the local circuit
Opened for all the big acts that came on tour, but stayed one hit away their whole life
43 and still up in the ciphers with the young bucks
No career, no long term growth, just "this is the one that's going to get me put on" over and over
But you can't tell em nothing because then you're a dream killer hater gatekeeper etc



Then again doesn't that happen all the time in Hollywood or whatever?
some actor that's been a bit player for 30 years suddenly gets a break and blows up at 50

Good point
I think breaking into acting at a older age is different because there is always a need for those type of roles
It's only so much time and space if you want to be a successful rapper

 

[MasterThought]

The sinister plan to make the "streets" appealing in the first place , specifically to blacks, is a thread in itself.

 

[TheHonorableOmarSharif]

this a FACT.

getting older isn't that bad. u make more money, ur smarter, and hopefully can achieve financial freedom.

plus as long as ur dikk works, older dude's can still get younger women

Same goes for 40+ dudes still trying to make it big in rap
Got a thousand mixtapes out and never went beyond the local circuit
Opened for all the big acts that came on tour, but stayed one hit away their whole life
43 and still up in the ciphers with the young bucks
No career, no long term growth, just "this is the one that's going to get me put on" over and over
But you can't tell em nothing because then you're a dream killer hater gatekeeper etc



Then again doesn't that happen all the time in Hollywood or whatever?
some actor that's been a bit player for 30 years suddenly gets a break and blows up at 50