Job Song (Explicit Album Version)

Excuse me I beg your pardon?

Nah, wha-wait hold up hold up hold up hold up

Bitch you don't

I don't get paid enough for you to be talkin to me like that

Straight up and down

I don't feel like standing by the ****ing front door, alright?

You know what? Matter fact, a year from now

When you at home on your only day off and you watchin UPN

You see me come up there and get my mother****in award

Tell yo' kids I said

How'd I get stuck in a dead-end job when I can rap

But of course my bill collectors they ain't tryna hear that

Matter fact they askin Dexter when I plan to pay back

On that long line of credit that they lent me way back

Way back, way back, at the turn of the century

The notice they sent to me is sayin essentially

If I don't pay that balance off along with a extra fee

Penitentiary or criminal charges

Probably soon to follow if you dare disregard this

And that got me nauseous, and feelin precautious

Cause the fruits of my labor, ain't barin no harvest

At least as a artist cause AT LEAST as a artist

You become whoever when your time get the hardest

But who you 'sposed to call when they all think you garbage

And figured that you washed up, damn they so heartless

Cause when I called the office they act stiffer than starches

And this just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

This just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

This just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

This just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

Cause this just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

This just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

This just ain't where I'm 'sposed to be

This just ain't, this just ain't

Now I'm in a situation that I can't pacify

So I'm lookin through the papers skimmin through the classifieds

When I see an opportunity that can't pass me by

That I can get the job if I give this class a try

Put my pride to the side, go get a 9 to 5

Cause livin check to check's the only way that I survive

But yo they sorta lied cause the lead's certified

It take more than shirts and ties for the course that they provide

But the course they would provide, a means of employment

Which is basically a job that I'll soon be annoyed with

So this unemployment is now subject to change

Cause I'm on these interviews and I'm running my game

And I'm bein interviewed by my government name

And I'm Ollie out the crew that we one and the same

So for now I'm out the game and far away from recording

Cause they left a message saying that I start Monday morning

Hello, this is OCS calling for Dexter Mills

Dexter, we have work for you on Monday morning

At our Banana Republic, on Broadway and Spring Street in Lower Manhattan

You are to be there at ten o'clock in the morning

Please call us back and let us know your availability

Have a good day, bye-bye

Guess what Ma, guess what, guess what!

What? What?

I got a job today!

At the department store they hired me.

They said I start on Monday, and um my hours

I'm a be doing the dayshift, and they going start me on a low pay

But they said like eventually I could um move up and

Oh great, this is the greatest news I've heard!

My prayers have been answered

You got a job!

I could do the job in the daytime then I could go to studio at night. And...

Oh, here we go.

Naw, I could go to the studio at night.

I just gotta make sure that I don't stay in the studio too late

So I can get up in the morning and then I can catch the bus and go to the job.

Oh yeah, but when you start that stuff at night you gotta get your rest

Cause you gotta get up and get to work.

It'll be aight. I'm going to celebrate, let's get some Capri-Suns. I wanna celebrate.

Let's do it, let's do it.