Has-Lo - My Uncle lyrics

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(Verse)

My uncle used to keep me on my toes, dawg

Straight dagger of life, lessons of literature

Kept my adolescent brain sharp like a sword, dro

I took an air for granted, to be very sure

Arrogance a few stairs, defy a nigga death life

Pshiii, fuck outta here, I'm not impressed

Nowadays I look upon it with respect

Not tryna fit a ? on my neck

Check, lost my faith on the path to enlightenment

That was feelin' confused and feel vexed

I hear the socially awkward's the new sexy

Goddamn, I was born in the wrong decade

My highschool years mighta been less of a headache

Ill, but I try not to let that shit perplex me

If I could travel time, I would cheat the system

Leave my young self a lot of numbers and some wisdom

Like "chill, kid, it's only the beginning, it's a long way to trick"

"Before you finish; and when your innocence starts screaming"

"Just kill it, and lay off the snacks, in yo 20s you gon' feel it"

You'll thank yourself later

(Hook break)

Listen to yourself more than you listen to other's opinion

It doesn't mean you don't listen to others

People who are qualified, who know, who been there

Who took risk, who may have failed

All the people who took risk and failed

And took risk and succeeded

But if you know in your heart and in your gut

That's what you wanna do

You have to shut out the other voices

And you have to listen to you!