The Hustle Songtext
von Common

My eyes watch God from a place where times is hard
Hard times we embrace, everybody want a yard
Cause a yard means space, being broke is odd
It leaves a odd taste in the mouth of the metropolitan

The hustle is hollerin
Beautiful minds grind grind for the dollar and
Whether dice scholarin or white collarin
We all talk hustle to profit like Solomon
The young play corner, Sean John modelin
They get it from they mama, black music is botherin
Blowin whites, flashlights like parliament
In court non-whites, wishin they had Cochran
Tell your guy and them, yo the block is hot again

Aunties walk into liquor stores in moccasins
My guy got a gig, on the side he barberin
Marry the foreign chick so she can get her green card up in the hustle


Just put it in your back and hustle
The paper stack so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that
Just move that shake and grind that hustle
It′s on your mind so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that

1St to the 3rd, I'm close to the curb
Toast to the bird, now I′m posted to serve

Hurt is the verb when you poor dirt on the floor
Bill collectors and the roaches workin your nerves
It's a ghetto short for a ghetto boy
To get in them ghetto streets and get him a ghetto toy
So he get closer, just swerve, murder rate is increasin
I don't give a fuck long as my coke is decent

And my rims blind the whole damn precinct
Every time you see a head in my lap, you know she sink
I know I′m dead in this trap, that′s not how we think
50 Shells all around on the ground, can't catch a weak blink
Five went through me, two stayed in me
To do my duty, only thing that subdued me

Two weeks, same corner, new freaks
New geeks, all white Air One new sneaks


Just put it in your back and hustle
The paper stack so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that
Just move that shake and grind that hustle
It′s on your mind so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that

Can't knock the hustle, the hustle
I′m in too deep, deep to sleep
Can't knock the hustle, the hustle
I′m caught up in the hustle, gettin mine
Can't knock the hustle, the hustle
I'm in too deep, deep to sleep
Can′t knock the hustle, the hustle
Gotta hustle or

I got to have it
Some rhyme, some throw shows, some sew clothes
Some hobo at the junction in between cars
Some interpret functions in between stars
Some teach, some preach, sayin they seen God
Some put they money up against mean odds
Flippin real estate, yo stocks and bonds
Dreams of rollin El Dorados, bumpin El DeBarge
Whatever the dream, stay on your deen, the world is ours
In the hustle

Just put it in your back and hustle
The paper stack so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that
Just move that shake and grind that hustle
It′s on your mind so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that

Just put it in your back and hustle
The paper stack so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that
Just move that shake and grind that hustle
It's on your mind so hustle
Go, go get it, gettin that
Go, go get it, gettin that

Gotta hustle or
Stay hustlin
Gotta hustle or
Stay hustlin
Gotta hustle or
Stay hustlin
Gotta hustle or