[ti:The White Shoes]
[ar:Wale]
[al:The Album About Nothing]
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[00:00.40]The White Shoes - Wale
[00:01.19]I had a lady once stop me on the street
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[00:05.20]I was wearing white shoes And she says
[00:07.44]"I'm glad you're sticking with the white shoes"
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[00:09.84]She says "It makes me feel good"
[00:10.89]Take this good advice
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[00:15.87]If they're gonna judge you for life
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[00:20.92]Say we can't always be fly
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[00:26.21]We gon' be good long as them sneakers white
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[00:31.27]You'll be alright
[00:35.61]
[00:36.18]Said you'll be alright
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[00:41.18]Said you'll be alright
[00:46.36]Said you'll be alright
[00:52.21]Gucci S Dots whole hood had 'em
[00:54.36]Ice cream 'fore the hypebeasts that's into fashion
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[00:57.31]Being forreal yo try being Pharrell
[00:59.42]When your black ass in a back class the fronting was real
[01:02.58]No Lauren London we was on a budget
[01:04.48]You know sharin' Old Navy so the army could be fresh in public
[01:07.91]Where the sneaker stores and laundromats get all the money
[01:10.36]Cause it ain't 'bout what you're doin' 'bout how you're lookin'
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[01:13.22]When they love you for your status and your catalog
[01:15.55]And everybody got a jersey to play along
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[01:18.19]Back then the hoes checkin' for your zapatos
[01:20.67]So even dirty niggas had the foams
[01:22.84]Take this good advice
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[01:28.07]If they're gonna judge you for life
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[01:33.17]Say we can't always be fly
[01:37.62]
[01:38.49]We gon' be good long as them sneakers white
[01:41.79]
[01:43.56]You'll be alright
[01:47.78]
[01:48.43]Said you'll be alright
[01:53.01]
[01:53.55]Said you'll be alright
[01:58.65]Said you'll be alright
[02:03.00]
[02:04.11]Biotech trainers on the way to work
[02:06.58]And we would quietly complain while Eric would lurk
[02:09.00]That was the PG Plaza manager managin' us
[02:11.52]Yeah I'm standin' in Lucky 7s but slingin' them Lugz
[02:14.16]Still have them Js for the low low and I could get 'em early
[02:17.03]But I'm not without a conscience I see people out there hurtin'
[02:19.57]Got 'em for Penny Foams that was bought at this very store
[02:22.14]And I think that was my shift then again I'm not very sure
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[02:25.80]And that's a lot that can get to ya
[02:27.17]When you're not sellin' drugs but the outcome is similar
[02:29.79]Cause out come them niggas with pistols tellin' you give 'em up
[02:32.46]Now out come the moms with tissues cause you ain't give a fuck
[02:35.12]Free lunch for everyone income was very uh
[02:37.79]On the second and 16th everyone would have every 1
[02:40.33]And Reebok would carry pump and that's not the scary part
[02:42.84]These niggas love white shoes so much they'd be buried in them
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[02:49.04]I was wearing white shoes And she says
[02:54.21]"I'm glad you're sticking with the white shoes"
[02:56.00]
[02:59.50]She says "It makes me feel good"
[03:00.92]
[03:06.43]You'll be alright
[03:10.13]
[03:11.44]You'll be alright
[03:15.48]
[03:16.55]You'll be alright
[03:20.47]
[03:21.55]You'll be alright
[03:26.84]Take this good advice
[03:30.20]
[03:31.91]If they're gonna judge you for life
[03:35.20]
[03:37.02]Say we can't always be fly
[03:41.41]
[03:42.33]We gon' be good long as them sneakers white
[03:45.61]
[03:47.44]You'll be alright
[03:51.50]
[03:52.32]Said you'll be alright
[03:56.51]
[03:57.35]Said you'll be alright
[04:01.64]
[04:02.49]Said you'll be alright
[04:09.41]No matter how good or lavish us niggas got it
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[04:12.12]We just a bunch of ravenous addicts living for fancy haberdashery