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Work

from American Idle by OHENE

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I've had many jobs, but one career. Here's my experience with wanting to live my life, but realizing apart of that life is making money and being a part of the system.

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BRJ: America is not a country, it's a corporation

Friday night
and I wanna go to the club
I just wanna do some drugs
but I gotta go to work

I got this mop in my hand
cleaning this floor
got dammit
how can I manage
Bills high
Money Low
Knots landing
I have not eaten
but I am not famished
that's the kicker complacency
the human rat racists see
down paid on a Cadillac
while student loans chasing me
Nigger shit
realest nigger shit
just want a white broad with a fat ass
like "Fuck me with that nigger dick"
fantasy
she suck me til I'm soft
but I just clocked in and damn
I ain't getting off
til the wee hours of the morning
Black girls texting me
my broski calling
"Open bar with no door,
We leaving there falling"
I'm like "Naw that shit sound boring"
Saturday I'm a b balling
If niggas stil sip Chrys
I'm a be Chris Paulin'

Friday night
and I wanna go to the club
I just wanna do some drugs
but I gotta go to work
Friday night
and I wanna go to the club
I just wanna do some drugs
but I gotta go to work

They say they crazy
but they ain't crazy
my life is so hectic tho
kids that don't give a fuck
from Africa Mexico
sell weed in the mid day
dodging from getting caught
over night shift too
I'm working my ass off
to keep up appearances
to keep up this lifestyle
baby momma pressing me
to make her my wife now
who gone pay
frito lay
I don't ever see Rose
know a lot of hustlers broke
and they be in the streets all day
I'm not that dude
well I'm the man
don't live like Marshall
feel like Stan
If I cut my hair like Will.I.Am.
Could I pay these fucking taxes
from Uncle Sam
good and bad news
gotta pay these quarter SAG dues
low balled by white producers
Lower Balled by Black dudes
that's me tho
shine without a Keynote
Rhyme without a key flow
straight to the people

Friday night
and I wanna go to the club
I just wanna do some drugs
but I gotta go to work
Friday night
and I wanna go to the club
I just wanna do some drugs
but I gotta go to work

Let me
paint this Vang Gogh
No fairy tale
read by the fireside
Like Icarus
falling through the sun
and when I die
I won't be in this place

Friday night
and I wanna go to the club
I just wanna do some drugs
but I gotta go to work

credits

from American Idle, track released June 6, 2013
Work
Produced by Myles Taylor
(Brutha K)
Recorded/Mixed Triangle Recording studios
Bx, NY
Written and Performed
by Ohene Cornelius
Sample: Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)
Intro: Boshia Rae Jean

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OHENE New York, New York

Ohene is a certified artist from Harlem, New York. Besides producing (Korg Electribe, Monologue, & Sp404), he plays the drums/guitar/keys, is a singer/songwriter, been know to shoot introspective visuals, organize events and pop up in some of your favorite Film and TV shows whether comedy or drama. ... more

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