Lauryn Hill - Destiny lyrics

[Intro: Terrance Moore] Retro Nuveaux [Verse 1] If I get a deal, will it make me less real? Will I spend a couple mill. to live in Hollywood Hills? f** a chick who's never seen the gritty side of life I'ma need a wife who knows reality from what they write I'm hoping, I could become the new Paul Robeson Chosen, for rapping, directing, acting and toking Spokesman for people who don't have their equal votes in Braggadocio, but I know how my dough spend What's Balmain, if you can't ball man? What's gold standards, if you can't afford a gold chain? What's old traditions when they're started in vain We're all cynics, but we can't complain We got mad loot, new coupes, all the b**hes But what's that without them Carter riches? I'm talking 500 stacks, untaxed, it excites me Might be, Phil Knight, Nuveaux is my Nike [Hook] Do I have permission To kick it And spit it Exactly the way you been missing? I've been down for so long Flipping sh** to get on Until I make my first hit song It's like my destiny Yeah, yeah Feel like my destiny [Verse 2] It's the pack over profit Cause when pennies in my pocket Only my pack of real n***as around It's like that when your stacks go to college And you spending out of pocket And the college ain't far out of town It's violence in the city, it's violent in the street Defiance ain't pretty in this violent industry You're working just to eat, when you work on that degree In time, it'll pay off, just stay off the street Don't be Bernie Madoff get paid off of one man's defeat That one man, may A-K off your whole team Money like life You better use it while you got it Cause you can't keep it forever Cuffin' never been a hobby I'm like, "oh, kemosabe" Been workin' up on her body She straight out the party I'm like who Scotty deferred to And when I work dude, you know what it is On that Seabiscuit manure, that's that champion sh** [Hook] [Outro: Lauryn Hill] And deep in my heart The answer it was in me And I made up my mind To define My own Destiny