Broken English & Drug Sellin’ Lyrics

[Verse 2]
Hustling 101 welcome to the class
You'll learn the art of dealing history and making broken English your math

I can't teach you how to stash, see myself I hold cash
Every dollar like its my last, 'cause it might be

I stay away from hoochies that love Gucci's and Louis
Vuitton - the Don, before I spend: do me

Before the sun rose we was out chasing dollars
With a couple of O's that follow downing bottles of rosé, kid

And now we're celebrating living life 'cause Hell can wait
First it was capsules, now its fish scales and selling weight
What about rapping, rappers always be asking
But while you was on promo tour I was at home laughing
Stashing, staying in fashion, putting cash in

The fireproof sentry safe, kid we die for loot

[Hook]
Talk broken english and drug selling

[Verse 3]
Slacking in the game, kid make it happen
Cop some cracks and put yourself back on the map and
Once your clientele's grooving without you nothing's moving
You got that shit they want, need, gotta have when they're using

This shit is deeper than the streets, we're working for the government
Before they try to Larry Davis me we're going public
Can't see my future from the street so I live for now
Gotta get legit before they hear my name too much downtown
Tryna be up out this shit soon as I start packing
Every time I try to leave this game it pull me back in
A magnet to selling small white fragments
Thick bags of it 'cause I never had shit

I gotta get mine regardless even if it means
Putting my ass on the line like a trapeze artist
I gotta blow, watch for the smoke
That's all I know so that's all I wrote
Out

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Genius Annotation

This is an early demo track by Jay-Z before his Reasonable Doubt era.
This song is described by Complex magazine as “a Hustling 101 class in the tradition of B.I.G.’s "Ten Crack Commandments” and Reasonable Doubt’s “Friend or Foe,” with a similarly playful sense of humor"

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Release Date
1993
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