The Grind Date Lyrics - De La Soul

if the meek shall inherit the earth 

and not the weak 

let me inherit the street, fuck it 

you know what I mean? 

I mean I love life man, you know what I mean 

life is beautiful, it's just the shit in it that's fucked up 

it's rough but it's fair 

people gotta go out there and bust they, bust they ass for a job 

I mean, my dad's got five kids, man and I mean yo 

he hates drivin' a bus but he loves five kids 

you feel me? 

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I'm a rhyme artist 

out here tryin' to grind my hardest 

up early so to milk the cow 

keep my john deere out here plowin' the fields 

to keep my john hancock's worth up in the now 

went from hangin' on blocks to hangin' on charts 

positions is parta my mission to hangin' on top 

gotta get your polly cracker or with them crackers 

and them scheisty ass niggaz if you like it or not 

I've been rewired to work more efficiently in the dirt 

I'm hands on with it all up in my cuticles 

some try to get off the farm but fell into harm 

of gettin in the game of those street pharmaceuticals 

but, I was raised in those blue collar themes 

havin' white collar dreams cause I see what it means 

and though the meek shall inherit the earth but don't forget 

the poor are the ones who inherit the debt 

you can bet I got better things to do than that 

I was a dick who got jerked by Tom and his boys 

came on my land, seized my cattle, and catalog 

as if it wouldn't leave me less than coy 

but I'm far from bitter even farther from quittin' 

got a grind date to make, no time for sittin' 

and playin' xbox, stand up and exercise my rights 

as of by seen of through masta's eye 

it's the grind date 

know what I'm sayin? I'm sick of askin' that 

I mean, the street philosophy is that 

I'm gonna milk the cow and cook the meat 

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at least I'm gonna have some kind of food and drink 

because sometimes you can't come back 

like momma said that if you need 5 cents don't ask for 3 

ask for 10, that's for sure 

Yo fuck a rhyme artist, I ain't here for that 

I was born with the boom bap, respect the name 

my hands on experience was hands on my first contract 

taught me quick how to respect the game 

introduced to the block, got used to the block 

but your neighbors be the ones who throw shit on your lawn 

it's like every single time we pop, they got annoyed 

but we got ahead, and we got along 

and puttin' work on the calendars, worse on them calendars 

worth of hump days that broke the camel's back 

the grind'll make today look gray 

and paint a tainted picture of tomorrows in enamel black 

meet the rhyme, street grind, son whatever the beast 

I'm a take it at the horns till the pinky toe torn 

and show you why we here this long 

cause when it comes to puttin' in work 

once again it's on 

I'm just like everybody else man 

an average nigga with above average potential 

you know what I mean? I'm not sayin' that I'm a gentleman 

I'm sayin that I know how to act like a gentleman 

in order to get the things that I need 

and if I gotta pull out my nickle bag, I'm gonna do that 

This ain't no accident, we stayin' here 

You damn right I am proud of myself man 

and I'm proud of my team man 

I don't want you to get the wrong, yo baby on the real? 

I don't have sex with people I do business with neither 

and that's the real 

but I do do business with people that I have sex with 

so if there ain't no conflict, let's get this grind on 

cause I'm gonna fuck the shit outta you, that's word