Crown The Hustle

Intro

Six of us, one hallway, one bare bulb swinging slow

Names carved in the stairwell so the building always know

Split the last two coneys, kept the receipt like a vow

Ain't crown myself till everybody eating right now

Verse

Marcus got the flashlight, I got the extension cord

Wired up the basement into somebody's whole world

Tay was on the corner when the landlord came around

Told him lease got renewed, had the papers backwards, downed

Kept a straight face, cost him half a month of sleep for me

Never asked him back, he just say that's family

We split gas money four ways down to the dime

Priya doing homework in the backseat, doing fine

Uncle said the crew a liability, cut loose

I said watch the harvest grow from one shared parachute

Every dollar that comes in gets divided by the trust

Not the ledger, not the paper, something harder than the dust

DeShawn took the fall for a mix-up wasn't his

Wore it like a jacket, never once made it a biz

That's the kind of loyalty you can't buy at the store

Crown the whole block or I don't want the crown no more

Chorus

We crown the hustle, split it six ways, share the load

Every brick we lay together on the same old road

Nobody eating good until we all eating good

Crown the hustle, that's the only law I understood

Verse

Rosa taught me numbers when the school ain't teach it right

Now she run the books and catch the errors overnight

Little cousin watching, learning how we move as one

Said he wanna be like Tay, I said be better, son

Bought a used van, packed it tight with borrowed tools

Every corner that we touch we flip it, break the rules

Made a promise in the winter when the heat got cut

We'd split the blanket four ways till the summer come back up

Never let the come-up turn a brother to a stranger

Kept the same phone numbers through every kind of danger

Priya graduated, whole block came to clap

DeShawn cried behind his shades, ain't gotta hide that

This the currency that outlasts every dollar sign

A hand that pulls you up when you been face down one time

Marcus got a shop now, hired half the neighborhood

Told him keep the门 door open like a brother should

Chorus

We crown the hustle, split it six ways, share the load

Every brick we lay together on the same old road

Nobody eating good until we all eating good

Crown the hustle, that's the only law I understood

Bridge

See the throne ain't gold, it's a table with six chairs

Every empty seat still get counted, still gets shares

I could've flown solo, kept the whole thing for myself

But a crown alone is just a weight nobody else can help

Outro

Six of us, one hallway, now it's six whole open doors

Crown the hustle, pass it down, that's what the crown is for