Could've Struck the Lotto

Skyzoo turned this classic Nas lyric from Illmatic’s “Life’s A Bitch” into a hot song on this The Great Debater standout.[Verse 1]

Killin' your idols one word at a time

When I was killin' yours, I was also murderin' mine

Indeed I'm all it be, I squeeze accordingly

If a fave should get caught in between, then all it means

Is meaning was never enough for me to wanna wish through

Fists full of dollars, ignorance is so blissful

Every part of me just wanna see how much the fists do

If this be a problem then I'm missing all the signals

You could miss me with the mistakes

Cause my realities is the meaning of missed plates

Kitchen tables need decorating, I'm decorated

The china be there, but all the feelings is misplaced

And this may lead to a decay of beautiful sorts

If I could race through all the traits and the beautiful Porsche

Then I'll erase through the change they refuse to restore

And pitfalls in the poetry, truthfully yours

And monologues at a dollar store, invited to ride along

Parental advisory, all of it is how you thought

All that we In Search Of is to Fly Or Die

So to have you Seeing Sounds that's inside the Sky

Is Nothing I suppose, so if I was alone

Then them sounds that you seeing is all that I really know

[Hook]

For the all in the mall and the rush to follow

That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto

Say I'm on what I'm on, tryna jump tomorrow

That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto

[Verse 2]

So that's 300 tickets that we could be comin' in with

That spade shit is pricey, but we in love with the livin'

We in love with the life, lust the pursuit

Promise not to forget how to adjust to the stoop

But if I'm away from whatever is made from

Know that I betrayed none, forever remained one

Forever embedded in the better of days come

The header on page one, my sketch is a Spain run

Tootin' my own horn'll level the page some

And then the level gets lowered and I refrain from

Pennin' what the norm does, everything the norm was

Should've been the past, but the future's like the norm's son

Tryna plan B that, pills in the sauce

Hope they smart enough to eat that, and dumb enough to starve

So to summarize it all, this is more than what it seems

Fully loaded clouds cornering your dreams

It's nothing I suppose, so if I was alone

Then them sounds that you seeing is all that I really know

[Hook]

For the all in the mall, and the rush to follow

That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto

Say I'm on what I'm on, tryna jump tomorrow

That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto

Honestly