Folk Tales

[Hook] Them folk tales, them new folk tales And shorty, these are the tales that we know so well Them ATL folk tales, them new folk tales And shorty, these are the tales that we know so well yeah [Verse One: Donnis] My nigga Joe, cool as twenty below, Chevy on 24's Barely made 24, the hottest nigga in town, got product by the pound Green, white and the brown, yeah, yeah, he get it in Fiends need they medicine and ain't no advertisement And to my surprise man, my nigga got ties with Colombians, Dominicans He don't deal with middle men, he just throw the money out And let the dough reel 'em in, spending plenty in Euro crowns Thanksgiving day, he give out turkeys downtown He helped build a community that he tore down And on that same fateful night, his life turned upside down See, the cops pulled him over, he put the thing in park Yeah, he was being watched by some undercover narks The dog started barking, dope was in the bumper And now my nigga Joe locked up for ten Summers [Hook] [Verse Two: Donnis] Stacy of the good life, Stacy of the in-crowd Vogue mag in style, yeah she from a small town To the city she came, a moth to the flame In search of something bigger than the norm At day, she study long and at night, she would perform And pop a few pills cause without 'em, work was born Word is bond, getting everything she ever dreamed possible And in a few years, she gon' be working in a hospital, nursing But deep inside, little Stacy, she feel worthless Cause she can't seem to find love in a purchase Or the purses that the stripper pole bring and there goes her self esteem See, what I mean is heels turned to coke, then the coke turned to heroin Fuck, I'm doing fine, that's exactly what she telling 'em, huh? Little Stacy She was so damn close till she died on an overdose, she comatosed and... [Hook] [Verse Three: Donnis] Folk tales, the tragedy, the drama, the good receive good And the bad come with the karma so just ponder Think before your next move cause the bad can come so fast It's like a train just hit your ass in a flash And lose it all and you just fall without a hand to grasp Crippled cause you simple and in a word, well now you're handicapped Facing the consequence cause the sequence of these events Didn't lead to the ending that you had once envisioned and these... [Hook]