Interpret:

Kanye West

Album:

College Dropout

Oh yeah 
I got the perfect song for the kids to sing


And all my people that's 
Drug dealing just to get by 
Stackin money till it gets sky high 
We wasn't suppose to make it past 25 
Joke's on you we still alive 
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say


[Verse 1]
If this is your first time hearing this 
You are about to experience somethin so cold man
We never had nothing handed 
Took nothing for granted 
Took nothing from no man 
Man I'm my own man
But as a shorty I looked up to the dope man 
Only the dopeman 
I knew that wasn't broke man 
Flicking starter coats man 
Man you don't know man 
And we dont care what people say 


This is for my niggas outside all winter 
Cause this summer they ain't finna say next summer im finna, 
Sitting in the hood like community colleges 
This dope money here is little Tre's scholarship 
Cause there ain't no tuition for having no ambition 
And ain't no loans for sitting your ass at home 
So we forced to sell crack, rap, and get a job 
You got to do something man your ass is grown


[Chorus]
Drug dealing just to get by 
Stackin money till it gets sky high 
(Kids sing, kids sing) 
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25 
Joke's on you we still alive 
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say


[Verse 2]
The second verse is for my dogs working 9 to 5 that still hustle cause a nigga can't shine off 6.55 
And everybody selling make up, Jacob's, and bootleg tapes just to get they cake up 
We put shit on layaway then come back 
We claim other people kids on our income tax 
We take that money, cop work then push packs to get paid 
And we don't care what people say 


Momma say she want to move South 
Scratching lottery tickets eyes on a new house 
Around the same time Doe ran up in dude's house 
Couldn't get a job 
So since he couldn't get work he figured he take work 
The drug game bulemic it's hard to get weight 
Some niggas money is homo it's hard to get straight 
But we gonna keep baking to the day we get cake 
And we dont care what people say 


My niggas


[Chorus]
Drug dealing just to get by 
Stack your money till it gets sky high 
(Kids sing, kids sing) 
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25 
Joke's on you we still alive 
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say


[Verse 3]
You know the kids gonna act a fool when you 
Stop the programs for after school and they 
DCFS, some of them dislexic 
They favorite 50 cent song 12 Questions we scream 
Why 'spose we start? 
See now we smart 
We ain't retards the way teachers thought 
Hold up, hold fast 
We make more cash 
Now tell my momma I belong in that slow class 
It's bad enough we on welfare 
You trying to put me on the school bus with the space for the wheel chair 
I'm trying to get the car with the chromy wheels here 
You trying to cut our lights out like we don't live here 
Look at what's handed us 
Fathers abandon us 
When we get the hammers go and call the ambulance 
Sometimes I feel no one in this world understands us 
But we dont care what people say 


My niggas


[Chorus]
Drug dealing just to get by 
Stack your money till it gets sky high 
(Kids sing, kids sing) 
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25 
Joke's on you we still alive 
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say