Ghetto to Meadow Oddisee (Ft. Freeway)

[Chorus: Oddisee]
From the ghetto to the meadow
Gotta hustle, gotta hustle
Cause a thug ain't nothing special
When your love go out the window
It's a struggle not to hustle
Til the trouble getting settled
Keep your head low in a tussle
Use your head though not the muscle
Upper level not the shovel
In the mud or out depends though
If you wanted out or in though
Just remember that the jungle
Out for blood and it gets shed though
Inner city where it's sinful
Where a grudge can be the end though
Nothing budging but the mental

[Verse 1: Oddisee]
Coming from a history of violence
Filled with misery and triumph
Lack of vision leads to buying
And that buying leads to selling
And that selling leads to clients
And clients lead to telling
And the telling leads to iron
In a cell or to your melon
Ain't no telling if you dying
When you living by the weapon
If they stepping then you riding
I seen youngins wet up like Poseidon just for smiling
That's aggression if you grew up where expression is a sign
That you ain't tough enough to see your deep depression as blessing
Cause if everybody stressing why you crying
That's method to survive the lack of resting when you're tired
Lack of breath when they put pressure on your neck and you complied
All you're left with is them questions that don't ever get obliged
If you speak up it's a threat and
If you digress then you're compliant
The divide between your effort and your net worth
Decide which gone get hurt
Before you pick a side place a bet first