Profe$$ional N!gga$

My favorite type of niggas handle business
Wake up early and deal with their fitness
They understand they’ve moved up
Without encouraging the splitness
Being supportive without
being extortive
in their own communities
Living beautifully
Becoming the vessels of giving
Still
Coming from places
where they’re never forgetting
Grinding when they were submitting
Applications to malls
All while going through the troubles
Of
still
Living with y’all
They was
Grinding to pave ways
Struggling to save pays
Checking into reality
It’s all different
Because
Their black has versatility
Some even
A black college grad
with no dad
in the market
But
That B.A. receiving
is
finally doing it’s sparking
There’s no more public parking
Regularity is starting
You’ll find to see that
Some friends will just start parting
because you’re making a marking
Finally making the dough
And
It won’t be copacetic
Because
You continued to grow
But
It’s funny how the professionals
Don’t know you’re truly ghetto
Thinking about the you
You are
When you take off your career clothes
Cause you’ve been
Hitting your career goals
But it’s different
Once you get home
Can be the professional you truly are
Once you’re all alone
Never been above 10
To take a sip of gin
With your professional clothes on
Making salary
Yes
My nigga
has outgrown the hourly
But
It’s not all for show
It’s just the result
of a
Professional Ghetto
(2017)