No Shoes On The Rug, Leave Them At The Door - IDK

You, know, no evil, no flaws, your evil on pause

My evil don’t go, go, go

I, leave, my shoes at the door, no mud on the floor

Unless my mama ain’t home, home, home

I, clean, after myself when I flaw, I leave no messes at all

I hope she don’t leave her keys on the shelf

And come back to see the mess on her floor

And see my shoes on her rug

When they should be at the door, door, door

I was supposed to be a doctor or somethin'

Honor roll like my auntie and cousins

But instead, I was a robber or somethin'

'Til they caught me red handed like my arm in the oven

«Goddamn Jay, do you do anything right?»

«Goddamn Jay, you could barely read or write»

«Goddamn Jay, you never ever get good grades»

«Goddamn Jay, you could barely pass fifth grade»

That’s what my momma would say

And it would eat at my mind, I used to think all the time

«If I could be a good boy, she’d probably love me a lot»

The only time I felt loved was when I went down the block

Across the street from the house, just down the street from the shop

That’s where the bad boys hung, your momma said don’t go

But I would go anyway, that’s where I felt at home (felt home, felt home,

felt home)

(5 minutes remaining)

No wonder my life went down, down, down

Down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down, down, down

No wonder my life went down, down, down

Down, down, down, down

Down, down, down, down, down, down, down

Did you go around the block by the shop?

(No)

Was that you with the boys throwing rocks?

(No)

Was that your friend on the news that I saw?

(No)

Was that your name spray painted on the wall?

(No)

Did you go around the block by the shop?

(No)

Was that you with the boys throwing rocks?

(No)

Was that your friend on the news that I saw?

(No)

Was that your name spray painted on the wall?

(No)

(One minute remaining)

We gettin' it and we gon' make it

And they gon' hate it and I’m his favorite

I can’t deny it, I’m a straight rider

But when we get together be electric slidin', grandma

Bumping in my headphones

On the way to school on a school bus

Where the cool ones, usually the «act a fool» ones

And the new ones, usually the ones they pick on

That was me, the whole class used to laugh at me

They use to say «get away from Jay, he an African

And everybody knows that them Africans stink»

A booty scratcher that never scratched on my ass differently

Than a regular human with itchy cheeks

Got me like «fuck this elementary

And if I had a knife, I’d probably cut this elementary

My grades been fucked since the first grade

And that ain’t 'bout to change so your honor roll will never mention me

And momma ain’t never gon' love me»

The reason why she come home after work and never hug me

That’s the shit that’ll make your life feel forever ugly

So I covered up my face with this ski mask

Bet the hoes gon' love me with my ski mask

But when my ass got caught, everybody went ghost

But the one that I used to think hated me the most

I love you momma

(30 seconds remaining)

Did you need a couple dollars on your books?

(Yeah)

Do you have enough covers on your bunk?

(Yeah)

Do your cell mates give you any problems?

If they do, what’s the jailhouse number?

I’ma call 'em (no)

Do you understand what I was tryna say?

(Yeah)

Oh now you understand what I was tryna say (yeah)

But even though you make me mad and never listen

You my baby and I’m still gon lo-

(This call has ended, goodbye.)