Statik Selektah - Scratch Off lyrics

[Intro: CJ Fly] Fly! [Cane] You know, it's my blood [Chorus: CJ Fly] So grandma can I get a scratch off? Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways So grandma can I get a scratch off? Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid So grandma can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) [Verse One: CJ Fly] It's all or nothin', quit with all the bluffin' Soon as one of my cards decline I'm in my wallet shufflin' Not so lucky, I guess that's how it's lookin' I'm a pro and not a rookie I school you all and I play hookie These were my times with Sookie Tea kettle whistlin' if she ever left the stove on Old age had kicked in and she sent me for a store run Gamblin' is in your blood, ain't superstitious But you're definitely knockin' on one If I win we all won Behavin' imagine the good grandson that I've been Grandma give me the missing numbers, the cash that I need Used to love the bodegas, now they ask for I.D Had my own two dollars just to get some scratches for me Around that time things were drastic, worryin' 'bout our finances Didn't no one give them to me, I was the one who finance us Said f** whoever doubted that's when I took my chances Feel strongly about whatever I believe in cause I'm a cancer Ain't an auction but they gave my mans a bid Damn the CC8 just filled another bed I guess we got some time to k** And you gotta play the hands you're dealt Fly! [Chorus: CJ Fly] Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways So grandma can I get a scratch off? Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid So grandma can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) [Verse Two: Talib Kweli] Voice of the unheard, louder than the bomb Grandma's boy couldn't be prouder of my mom For this historical perspective a political education I hardly ever gamble my risk was too calculated Caught up in the traps, to highly and discrete Red dollar and rented dream and get you followed by the fiends 'Cause this life is like a lottery, a loser then you'll probably be Living with the ghost like Demi Moore with the pottery Testing our morality when facing our mortality Betting on a fallacy handin' over our salaries +Natural born k**er+ they call us +Mickey+ and +Mallory+ 'Til our men become warriors and our women turn into valkyries Cussin' like some sailors in the open seas Mama got the silk for the apartment smellin' like potpourri Shoppin' for the groceries got her a pepsi-cola and some coke for me Makin' a quick stop by the OTB [Chorus: CJ Fly] So grandma can I get a scratch off? Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways So grandma can I get a scratch off? Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid So grandma can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) [Verse Three: Cane] Grandma, uh, and you knew that's all we needed That's why you plant a seed and you feed it repeat it and treat it then we play against the odds If we can only defeat it We see it but we steady weepin' whenever we read it End up feeling cheated, we deserve better 'Cause she done earned cheddar and I know she took her turn Being Tina Turner let her be returned from her debtor You'd know all she want is world peace if you met her And one day we may travel If you bought that scratch off like Payola at a DJ battle And it paid off then we made off like Madoff And ate off that plate constantly concentrated like Adolf Came all the way four hours in your auto Showed up at my school, saying we hit the lotto Popped a bottle then we saw that we misread it at second glance That's when I learned life isn't up to chance [Chorus: CJ Fly] Scratch off? Just to show that I inherited your gamblin' ways So grandma can I get a scratch off? Please buy me a lucky 7 so we both can get paid So grandma can I get a scratch off? When I put in all your numbers at the store for the day So grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh) Grandma can I get a scratch off? (Oh)