Hip Hops Most Poetic Verses
PapaJuice
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Now I'm a few ages older
got hair on my nuts and I'm a little bit bolder.
And puttin in work, I has to do my ? part,
I'm down for the hood and its planted in the heart.
Fool. At school slappin on the girls ?
? the white education so I skip a lot of classes.
Cause ain't no teaching a ? white reality.
Teach me the mutherfuckin gang mentality.
Pop pop pop, drops the sucker
if he's from another hood I gots ta shoot the ? .
Geah I'm in it to win it and can't quit.
Fool, and ready die for this ? .
One times can't fade the gang tuff.
Puttin my foot in your ass to make times rough.
I'm the neighbourhood terror but I never wondered
that the hood would take me under.
Early natives related to throwns of david
Captured by some patriots, and thrown on slave ships
They stripped us naked, while they wives picked they favourite
Lives were wasted, in the hands of the hated
Driven from the garden [garden], now we starvin’ in the martyring ?
They call it harlem, wordly problems got us at the bottom
The earth crisis, and the righteous grab their ice picks
Seekers like us for our rices, I stay in ciphers
Our live is, connected to second son of isaacs, which had a tight grip
On the heels of his brother, revealed to his mother
The elders who served the younger, words heard in thunder
Down from under, rose and fled to grow in hunger, now it’s cold in summer
To slow your slumbers, behold a number, 600, 6 and 3 score
The same as he saw, who ate his heat raw, in the time before
They climbed aboard a dinosaur, information held behind the doors
We came from the atmosphere, the physical trapped us here
Then they gave us ? and beer, in the back of the stairs
Please adapt your ears, add or subtract the years, and form the unwise
And watch the sunrise from sunset, none-slep, one flesh, one breathYo - no time to freeze, undercovers ease up in Grand Prixs
and seize packages and pocket the currency
Clicks control strips full clips are sprayed
Yellow tape barricades sidewalks where bodies lay
Madness strikes at twelve o'clock midnight
Stick up kids on the ground broke the staircase light
And I stays harassed, scramblin for petty cash
Jakes on my ass young bucks is learnin fast
357's and 44's
Bought inside corner stores, their fire sparks the wars
Hospital floors surrounded by the law
Homicide questioning while the Jakes guard the door
My hood stay tense, loyalty puts strength in my team
Cause ? main concern is CREAM
Some ? in the jet black Gallant
Shot up the Chinese resteraunt, for this kid named Lamont
I thought he was dead but instead he missed a kid
and hit a twelve year old girl in the head and then fled
Tactical narcotic, task force, back off fast
Cause the crime boss is passin off cash
Extortions, for portions of streets, causes beef
Havin followers of Indians trying to play Chief
You witness the saga, casualties and drama
Life is a script, I'm not a actor but the author
of a modern day opera, where the main character
is presidential paper, the dominant, factor2 sure levi's and (??)
I rides on my enemies
Ain't 2 many Porches and damn sure ain't no Bentley's
Where I'm from
Guns is the common site
My homies move at night
Avoid the ghetto bird like
They got me locked in
My hoods a pen
And all my homies inmates
Everytime I see a cop I'm thinking of the bars at the state pen
Shut in
But shut out of society
A menace there's a riot going on inside me
But you don't wanna see my fires flaming
There's only one race of people we could be
Blaming this all on
That's what I roll with my trick, my 9mm that's my trick
And she straight talk "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
When I want you go catch you slipping
In the capital of ass whippings
South Central fool why you tripping?
Figure you been watching movies
(??) Blew the hood up
Bustas claiming hoods they've never seen
Busta shut up quick
On the tip of a South Central clique
My homies died for this
The hood ain't nothing to mess with
Bustas catch a stitches
If the busta wishes
I don't give a damn
I'm going out maliciousThey say change gone come
but its a long time comin
my legs tired
hundred million miles runnin
on life's treadmill
runnin in place
but still i run wit the race
i think back on my wonder years
food stamps shorts of wonder bread
my mom dukes
young, wild, loose learned a less
i got my truths from the older heads
u went 2 church n took a different route
u got ya truths from out the bishop mouth
i ? the juice that turn dish about
dem double duces turned my system out
and them zanies and the weed too
? it i'm still hereThey say a family that prays together, stays together.
And one that walks apart just falls apart.
So, together we stand, divided we fall.
United, we form Voltron and take off all. Let’s move.
Yes, the birds left the nest.
I’m all grown up I gotta fly with the rest.(uh huh)
Best of the best is what we strive to be. (Yeah).
A legacy is what we trying to leave.
Ya dig?
Now say goodbye to the past.(why?)
The future is here at last.(at last)
The second coming.(yea)
The new beginning.(yea)
The truth is speaking.(uh huh)
You should listen.Runnin wild
I never smiled as a juvenile
even now I keep a frown when I come around
don't ask me about tha past
it was all bad
shots blasted
will I last
in tha wrong path
in tha dark is where my heart saw tha most grief
? is getten shanked over gold teeth
am I sick ?
cause i'm addicted to get splifted
watch tha stupid ass tricks get lifted
nothens changed
cause in tha came it's a steady aim
? friends
cause when in danger those ? change
puff weed
and stuff G's in my sock G
call Ki's and Hennessy where tha glock be
Times passen will I last here another day
I put my gun away
and grab my AK
it's getten hectic
I can't call it
house full of alcoholics
now we're ? under pressure? I'm a hustler, act like I'm lovin ya
Don't mind ? ya, just like the Governor
Used to be the dope man, rolled a hundred spokes man
When I come through, treat me like the Pope man
Ghetto spokesman, I know ?
in Eastside Oakland all the way to Brook-lyn
And they love my ? drawers, what you smokin?
Think you got the ? , ? I'm a Trojan
Catchin all that just like a prophylac'
Don't reproduce, that ? is whack
Flavor Flav with a white ? that is whack
Got to put the ? back in my Cadillac
Take him to the hood, where it's action packed
Let him know that the target's still on his back
It's a hustle called capitalism
Got my ? in prison, all stuck in the system yeah
Recognize who's a hustler, George D.W.
He's the one that's sittin back, ? ya
With a big ? stuck in ya
I'm from a place where the ? Terminator is the GovernorI'm from a world of different colors different faces
Different slang different races different gangs different places
Air Ones different laces
Different culture different livin different thugs different ages
The sky's blue the money's green the weed is purple
The ice is white you try me I'm a have to hurt you
Kingston boy I rep like no other
Black, yellow and green I bleed the Jamaican colors
The grill is cold the wheels is gold the chrome is silver
Nickel plated if it's blazin than the chrome will ? ya
Certain dudes get one in the head
Certain places you wear certain colors you dead
Fi yuh gang bang yuh diss mi yuh a dead man
Cau gunshot a be like drum pan weh mi come from
And it's the same ol' story
We don't give a damn about your guts and gloryJust got the call from Dre
They did 2oon ?
His lawyer broke down the crowd when they gave him 30
My cousin Juan got a 1/3 of 25
Hector came out and came back inside
I know ? moms who's even doing bids
Back n forth from the pen since little kids
Karim the only one that came out and didn't come back
Because where I'm from ? never switch up
?? is on his 3rd strike for doing a stick up
Young G's back in the pen for beating his ? up
I was like "Aww man, I was just with that ? !"
got hair on my nuts and I'm a little bit bolder.
And puttin in work, I has to do my ? part,
I'm down for the hood and its planted in the heart.
Fool. At school slappin on the girls ?
? the white education so I skip a lot of classes.
Cause ain't no teaching a ? white reality.
Teach me the mutherfuckin gang mentality.
Pop pop pop, drops the sucker
if he's from another hood I gots ta shoot the ? .
Geah I'm in it to win it and can't quit.
Fool, and ready die for this ? .
One times can't fade the gang tuff.
Puttin my foot in your ass to make times rough.
I'm the neighbourhood terror but I never wondered
that the hood would take me under.
Early natives related to throwns of david
Captured by some patriots, and thrown on slave ships
They stripped us naked, while they wives picked they favourite
Lives were wasted, in the hands of the hated
Driven from the garden [garden], now we starvin’ in the martyring ?
They call it harlem, wordly problems got us at the bottom
The earth crisis, and the righteous grab their ice picks
Seekers like us for our rices, I stay in ciphers
Our live is, connected to second son of isaacs, which had a tight grip
On the heels of his brother, revealed to his mother
The elders who served the younger, words heard in thunder
Down from under, rose and fled to grow in hunger, now it’s cold in summer
To slow your slumbers, behold a number, 600, 6 and 3 score
The same as he saw, who ate his heat raw, in the time before
They climbed aboard a dinosaur, information held behind the doors
We came from the atmosphere, the physical trapped us here
Then they gave us ? and beer, in the back of the stairs
Please adapt your ears, add or subtract the years, and form the unwise
And watch the sunrise from sunset, none-slep, one flesh, one breathYo - no time to freeze, undercovers ease up in Grand Prixs
and seize packages and pocket the currency
Clicks control strips full clips are sprayed
Yellow tape barricades sidewalks where bodies lay
Madness strikes at twelve o'clock midnight
Stick up kids on the ground broke the staircase light
And I stays harassed, scramblin for petty cash
Jakes on my ass young bucks is learnin fast
357's and 44's
Bought inside corner stores, their fire sparks the wars
Hospital floors surrounded by the law
Homicide questioning while the Jakes guard the door
My hood stay tense, loyalty puts strength in my team
Cause ? main concern is CREAM
Some ? in the jet black Gallant
Shot up the Chinese resteraunt, for this kid named Lamont
I thought he was dead but instead he missed a kid
and hit a twelve year old girl in the head and then fled
Tactical narcotic, task force, back off fast
Cause the crime boss is passin off cash
Extortions, for portions of streets, causes beef
Havin followers of Indians trying to play Chief
You witness the saga, casualties and drama
Life is a script, I'm not a actor but the author
of a modern day opera, where the main character
is presidential paper, the dominant, factor2 sure levi's and (??)
I rides on my enemies
Ain't 2 many Porches and damn sure ain't no Bentley's
Where I'm from
Guns is the common site
My homies move at night
Avoid the ghetto bird like
They got me locked in
My hoods a pen
And all my homies inmates
Everytime I see a cop I'm thinking of the bars at the state pen
Shut in
But shut out of society
A menace there's a riot going on inside me
But you don't wanna see my fires flaming
There's only one race of people we could be
Blaming this all on
That's what I roll with my trick, my 9mm that's my trick
And she straight talk "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
When I want you go catch you slipping
In the capital of ass whippings
South Central fool why you tripping?
Figure you been watching movies
(??) Blew the hood up
Bustas claiming hoods they've never seen
Busta shut up quick
On the tip of a South Central clique
My homies died for this
The hood ain't nothing to mess with
Bustas catch a stitches
If the busta wishes
I don't give a damn
I'm going out maliciousThey say change gone come
but its a long time comin
my legs tired
hundred million miles runnin
on life's treadmill
runnin in place
but still i run wit the race
i think back on my wonder years
food stamps shorts of wonder bread
my mom dukes
young, wild, loose learned a less
i got my truths from the older heads
u went 2 church n took a different route
u got ya truths from out the bishop mouth
i ? the juice that turn dish about
dem double duces turned my system out
and them zanies and the weed too
? it i'm still hereThey say a family that prays together, stays together.
And one that walks apart just falls apart.
So, together we stand, divided we fall.
United, we form Voltron and take off all. Let’s move.
Yes, the birds left the nest.
I’m all grown up I gotta fly with the rest.(uh huh)
Best of the best is what we strive to be. (Yeah).
A legacy is what we trying to leave.
Ya dig?
Now say goodbye to the past.(why?)
The future is here at last.(at last)
The second coming.(yea)
The new beginning.(yea)
The truth is speaking.(uh huh)
You should listen.Runnin wild
I never smiled as a juvenile
even now I keep a frown when I come around
don't ask me about tha past
it was all bad
shots blasted
will I last
in tha wrong path
in tha dark is where my heart saw tha most grief
? is getten shanked over gold teeth
am I sick ?
cause i'm addicted to get splifted
watch tha stupid ass tricks get lifted
nothens changed
cause in tha came it's a steady aim
? friends
cause when in danger those ? change
puff weed
and stuff G's in my sock G
call Ki's and Hennessy where tha glock be
Times passen will I last here another day
I put my gun away
and grab my AK
it's getten hectic
I can't call it
house full of alcoholics
now we're ? under pressure? I'm a hustler, act like I'm lovin ya
Don't mind ? ya, just like the Governor
Used to be the dope man, rolled a hundred spokes man
When I come through, treat me like the Pope man
Ghetto spokesman, I know ?
in Eastside Oakland all the way to Brook-lyn
And they love my ? drawers, what you smokin?
Think you got the ? , ? I'm a Trojan
Catchin all that just like a prophylac'
Don't reproduce, that ? is whack
Flavor Flav with a white ? that is whack
Got to put the ? back in my Cadillac
Take him to the hood, where it's action packed
Let him know that the target's still on his back
It's a hustle called capitalism
Got my ? in prison, all stuck in the system yeah
Recognize who's a hustler, George D.W.
He's the one that's sittin back, ? ya
With a big ? stuck in ya
I'm from a place where the ? Terminator is the GovernorI'm from a world of different colors different faces
Different slang different races different gangs different places
Air Ones different laces
Different culture different livin different thugs different ages
The sky's blue the money's green the weed is purple
The ice is white you try me I'm a have to hurt you
Kingston boy I rep like no other
Black, yellow and green I bleed the Jamaican colors
The grill is cold the wheels is gold the chrome is silver
Nickel plated if it's blazin than the chrome will ? ya
Certain dudes get one in the head
Certain places you wear certain colors you dead
Fi yuh gang bang yuh diss mi yuh a dead man
Cau gunshot a be like drum pan weh mi come from
And it's the same ol' story
We don't give a damn about your guts and gloryJust got the call from Dre
They did 2oon ?
His lawyer broke down the crowd when they gave him 30
My cousin Juan got a 1/3 of 25
Hector came out and came back inside
I know ? moms who's even doing bids
Back n forth from the pen since little kids
Karim the only one that came out and didn't come back
Because where I'm from ? never switch up
?? is on his 3rd strike for doing a stick up
Young G's back in the pen for beating his ? up
I was like "Aww man, I was just with that ? !"
Comments
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I know you take offense to certain words
I've heard worse, but I wouldn't blame ya'
They say he's a entertainer, don't worry about it, never mind Kramer
The Crocodile Hunter got stung, and the lion turned on the lion tamer
We keep sending troops to Iraq, I figured that we must like danger
Little kids don't learn in school they go to school to go spray a gun
If you a parent, then be a parent, get off the couch and go raise your son
Kobe just broke another record, today's game he hit 81
Now they saying he's number 1, but yesterday they all hated him
OJ was named innocent, he got no sentence, he's still alive
It's very ironic that the lawyer that defended him had to die
Well, now my cue card says the price of gas isn't really high
But I'm not going to read that, 'cause we all know that that's a lie
Now I would give you news about Katrina
but you know I can't talk about Katrina
'Cause every time I talk about Katrina
they look at me like it's a misdemeanor
Anyways, there's way more important stuff that we can discuss
N'SYNC makin the band and Milli Vanilli have broken up
Gas prices raises, the money keeps burning
Dropout rate rising, so what are they learning?
Sending the troops in the war so I turn it
To today's evening news
And the world keeps turning slow (turning slow, turning slow)
As the world keeps turning slow (turning slow, turning slow)
As the world keeps on turning slow (turning slow, turning slow)
This is your evening news Self Serving
You're not surfing
It's not working
Leave them hurting
With them blood vessels bursting
In the first person
What the ? just happened?
Got your hair line split and we was only rapping
Attack jaws for the cause
My claws are sharper than yours
This lion rawrs
As he was against nations laws
? & Barry can all get lynched
Ayyo, that fried chicken ass ? needs to get lynched
And all you ? ass rappers should all get lynched
And all you fake ass gangsters should all get lynched
Because Malcolm X died for you act like this
& Martin Luther King died for you to act like this
And if you brag about killing your brothers your ?
And all you ? ass ? can suck my ?
Because Huey Newton got killed for you to act like this
People floating for a week on New Orleans streets
And only Kanye West wasn't afraid to speak?
Which is deep
Because ghetto ? is quick to beef
With ? they think they can beat
? been 3 times
He don't give a ?
Try write things stumble once he giving up
Plus ? love excuses
excuse the useless
But it's dumb
When it comes to the ??? they ruthless
Brother comes through college
"This ? ain't ? "
? come home from jail
You're all on his ?
Even Africans is calling yall ?
Ain't that something...My momma told me that this music was cool
All she ever wanted from me was to graduate from school
But I, had other plans so I bid school adieux
I called Food Lion, had to tell 'em I was through
No more stockin peas and corn
I was born for a much greater purpose, do you this service
Margie got nervous, but timers don't sweat
8 years, I ain't been back yet
Lack of time on your TV sets, no radio spins
Momma askin her son, what he doin for ends
Spendin weeks on the road, ma this ain't for pretend
Unheard to the creme de la creme, keep bouncin
On beats pouncin, cat reflexes
Had yo' attention when I pulled up in Lexus
Big like Texas, G's on the checklist
You ain't gotta ask ma I'm bringin home the breakfast
Gotta respect thisHey, you know me, girl, who I be, girl
The big whale that bailed outta SeaWorld
What's your name, show me I.D., girl
You look black and a little Chinese, girl
Hey, wait a minute, where you going, shorty?
Try to sneak past me like you ain't balling
You look sweet like Tweet, baby, c-c-call me
Matter of fact, wasn't you on Maury?
I'm just playing, hey miss thang
Hey, hey, miss thang, how you gon' miss me?
I got tickets, let's roll to the Knicks game
You Teena Marie, and baby, I'm Rick James
Excuse me, where you going, mama?
I wanna change, I voted for Obama
Bring in the new, kick out the old timers
Let's talk while we go and meet your mamaI've been around punk but yo i still feel young
A few of my crew members like to pack guns
I'm high strung but don't mistake me when I smile
I murder an entire rap chart with my freestyle
After the killing just like casper I'm ghost
Fakes thought I was friendly, at their wakes I was host
Toast without a gun you'd be done
Throw up your hands ? and now you know you stand to lose one
Choose one metaphor and then choose another
Wax that ass like a bully have you calling your big brother
Although I'm five foot eight they call me sargeant
Got more hoes in my ? than you can fit in the garden
At Madison Square I shot a fair one
So many ? knew me that the kid wouldn't dare run
MC's pay cash to ensure their safety
They know they can't take me; the G-A-N-G, you crazy?
I be on them like a message from ?
Knowledge of self while fake mc's play hardThis ? don't stop, I'm still stackin' my cash
Out in the backyard with ? hidin' ? in they ass
It's gettin' kinda hot but I ain't leavin' the spot
Cause don't nobody give a ? if I'm eatin' or not, ?
South Central, the ? capital
Where gun fire's rampid, the one-time be gafflin'
Murder is a headline, half an ounce of chronic is a misdemeanor
One gram of hard is fed' time
The name of the game is survival
Keep the thang on me like a preacher do a Bible
? unity, ain't no ? ' one love
Crips killin' Crips ? , Bloods killin' Bloods
? tellin', gotta stay outta dodge
On the stand y'all be singin' like Mary J. Blige
But I'ma stay cockin' my pistol
Goin' hard in the paint, ? can't stop my dribbleMy nephew died in the car I bought
So I'm under the belief it's partly my fault
Close my eyes and squeeze, try to block that thought
Place any burden on me, but please, not that lord
Time don't go back, it go forward
Can't run from the pain, go towards it
Some things can't be explained, what caused it?
Such a beautiful soul, so pure, ?
Gonna see you again, I'm sure of it
'til that time, little man I'm nauseous
Your girlfriend's pregnant, the lord's gift
Almost lost my faith, that restored it
It's like having your life restarted
Can't wait for your child's life, to be a part of it
So now I'm child-like, waiting for a gift
To return, when I lost you, I lost itI'm a ******
he's a ******
she's a ******
we some ******s
wouldn't you like to be a ****** too?
To all my ? ?
? ******s
Guinea ******s
? ******s
that's right, y'all my ******s too
I'm a ******
he's a ******
she's a ******
we some ******s
wouldn't you like to be a ****** too?
They like to strangle ******s
blaming ******s
shooting ******s
hanging ******s
still you wanna be a ****** too?
TrueWhen I was typo switching
First time G.I. Joe's were missing
First ass whipping
First time I seen a grown man die
And I don't why my grandpa Carter left me
A few years past and grandma Carter left me
Wish I could bring 'em back
Swap 'em back
Use the barter system
Would of traded all my arcade games
My Nintendo & ????
Just to see them living
When I finally realized he died upon the wrong religion
Hope the LORD forgives him
But repenters get the recognition
It's just a gift from ?
I'm just a slave to ?
That he can't deny
And in turn a few things that can make a grown man wise
I'm not just spitting the ???
I'm reading the scriptures
Yall ? did cry
I know things
http://www.therundown.tv/new-music/freeway-i-cry/
It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood
Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood
Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood
? killed a crip and a blood in the hood (For real)
Cause when ? get tribal
It's all about survival, nobody liable
I got caught by five-o
Grandmama came to court with her bible
But when the judge hit the gavel
Now I'm too far from my family to travel (? )
I just came unraveled
Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled
Owned by C.A, State Property
Just like the year fifteen fifty three
Looking for me, a one-way ticket out
Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out? -
Do away with the clubs and the drug spots
Do away with the judge and the mugshots
Like we do away with the day when the sun drops
Clap yo hands if you tired of hearing gunshots
Hearing news about who got popped
By another black man knocking a white cop
If I ain't there when it start I'm there when the fight stop
Like ?? slow your roller be cold as an ice pop
We gotta start helping eachother
Quit hurting eachother
Money will have a ? thinking about murking his mother
How does it feel being slaves to a dolla bill?
Giving you something to feel, are yall for real?
Do away with all the Chinese restaurants
Do away with all the fake ??
Clap yo hands if you getting in some real estate, by the crib with the ribs to wait
I remember I used to instigate
Now I'm the one breaking up the fight making sure the tensions straight
Don't let the ? get the heart to push me
I ? the biggest ? , with his partna ?
You ain't gotta be soft to be for peace
I'm like the Martin Luther King and I got some teeth
And now I'ma flip this ? to be prolific
Incase ? just get it twisted
I'm so gifted
Do away with the jails and the group homes
Like we did with the shells and....??
Clap yo hands if you loving that Just Blaze ?
Because we don't just make songs, we ??Tell me do you see that old lady ain't it sad
Living out a bag, but she's glad for the little things she has
And over there there's a lady, ? got her crazy
Guess she's given birth to a baby
I don't trip and let it fade me, from outta the frying pan
We jump into another form of slavery
Even now I get discouraged
Wonder if they take it all back while I still keep the courage
I refuse to be a role model
I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottles
I make mistakes, I learn from everyone
And when it's said and done
I bet this Brother be a better one
If I upset you, don't stress
Never forget, that ? hasn't finished with me yet
I feel his hand on my brain
When I write rhymes, I go blind, and let the lord do his thang
But am I less holy
'cause I choose to puff a blunt and drink a beer with my homies
Before we find world peace
We gotta find peace and end the war on the streets
My ghetto gospelI hear you claim to be the hardest induvidual
Can't nobody fade you, your mentality is more like criminal
Whenever there's drama or funk they say you handle the static
Yeah, you tha man, you and that fully automatic
Stepped up and swept up every turf wit disagreements
And every ? that havin' a bowl of some of that ...
But ain't it a shame you can only travel across the streets to the store
They don't even trust you and that mother cause you robbed it before
Got you a sack of that yack and snored it, and snored it up
Than robbed another ? the cut cause you didn't give a ?
Everybody is blessed wit tha devil, he be a ?
Get him off your back, get 'em off yo back before you ? your brother
On some of that kokane ? gets crazy I done seen it
Waked up the next day talkin' bout man I really didn't mean it
Lost all your love and all your trust, somebody is ? ' your wife
You shot that ? , that's why you servin' 25-2-LifeFor him, I could get so selfish
It's strange how love can make you contradict yo'self
How could I tell him not to steal and, I would steal for him
Tell him killin is wrong and I would ? for him
I told him I would never take myself away from him
I would fight for him, at the same time, I'd do life for him
Jump in front of a slug for him, this is unconditional love
and I wouldn't wish none of the above on him (above on him)
..I best be, on my best behavior
Mistakes made by me don't only affect me
Affects him too, check what I been through
They say your money's only as long as your next pencil
When you livin the rap life
And you givin your fans, verbally what you would get for a ? pipe
This is the main reason I write
Royce Daniel, the single most important thing in my lifeMy ? you a ? to me
Boy you done went off on me
Runnin round with the fakin and hatin
I'ma blast if you run up on me
I'ma do my dirt by my lonely so that nobody can snitch
This matter coulda been resolved
if you woulda came clean and paid my ?
See ? disrespect the game but boy you'll never last
Pullin that ? ? sellin your partner out for a piece of ass
And fool you claim you real but really need to be shot up
No respect for your family that's dead
don't write yo peoples locked up
Damn I miss my dog he was ? to this game
Unlike bustas these days that talk down on your name
You boys is funny
I'm bout my money
And oh so true
Mr. 3-2 when I never trusted you
I'm too realA ghetto bastard, born next to the projects
Livin' in the slums with bums, I sit and watch them
Why do I have to be like this? momma said I'm priceless
So I am all worthless, starved, and it's just for being a nice kid
Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though
Last stop to hell, I would've ended things a while ago
I ain't have jack but a black hat and napsack
Four squad stolen in cars in a blackjack
Drop that, and now you want me to rap and give?
Say somethin' positive? Well positive ain't where I lived
I lived right around a corner from west hell
Two blocks from south ? , it was in a jail cell
The sun never shone on my side of the street, see
And only once or twice a week I would speak
I walked alone, my state of mind was home sweet home
I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome
Some life, it you ain't wear gold your style was old
And you got more juice than dope for every bottle sold
Hell no, I say there's gotta be a better way
But hey, never gamble any game that you can't play
I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now
How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how
Why me, huh?Ain't nobody getting money
They just getting by
Trying to suppress their poverty by getting high
They'll get the same money, lose it twice again
There's a war going on outside, nobody safe from
You either make a way or take one
Yeah, I just know what I know
The Ghetto
Out my window I see poverty
Youth is dying
Feels like death just follows me
Most folks chase a hard to escape reality
In this ghetto...After they ran the farmer off the farm
The pigs went around and called a meeting in the barn
Hannibal spoke for several hours
But when talks about his plans for power
That's when the conversation turned sour
He issued an offical ordinance to set
If not a pig from this day forth then you insubordinate
That's when the horses went buckwild
One of them shouted out
You fraudulent pigs, we know your ? style!
Hannibal's face was flushed and pale
All the animals eyes full of disgust and betrayal
He felt the same way Sam felt
They took his tongue out of his mouth
And cut his body up for sale, for real
You better listen while you can
Its a very thin line between animal and man
When Hannibal crossed the line they all took a stand
What would have done?
Shook his hand?
This is the animal in man -
I can't go to sleep, I can't shut my eyes
They shot the father of his moms, killed him seven times
They shot Malcolm in the chest front of his little seeds
Jesse watched, as they shot King on the balcony
They spat at Marcus, Garvey cause he tried to spark us
with the knowledge of ourselves, and our forefathers
Ohh Jacqueline you heard the rifle shots cracklin
Her husband head in her hair, you tried to put it back in
AMERICA'S WATCHIN, BLOOD STAINED INK BLOTCHES
MEDGAR TOOK ONE TO THE SKULL FOR INTERGRATING COLLEGE
WHAT'S THE SCIENCE? SOMEBODY? THIS IS TRICK KNOWLEDGE
THEY TRY TO KEEP US ENSLAVED AND STILL SCRAPE FOR DOLLARS
Walkin through Park Hill, ? as a ?
Lookin around like, these DEVILS, I'm ready to break this world down
They got me trapped up in a metal gate, just stressed out with hate
And just, give me no time to relax, and use my mind to meditate
What should I do? Grab a blunt or a brew?
Grab a two-two and run out there AND PUT THIS ? VIOLENCE IN YOU?You ? parents are a trip
The streets got your babies cause you're full of that ?
you tell your kids drugs'll ? up their health
And you're geekin your ? self
But I won't blame it all on you
You stupid-ass teachers can suck my ? too
I walk around with a smirk
? school, ? curfew, ? homework
And muthafuck a damn cop
I never ride down my block without my gun bein cocked
You won't get a chance to slay me
I wont' be an accident like Ada Delaney
So when you step out of line
(*shots*) I'm goin for mine
D.O.A. is how they pronounce you
No suspect, no motive, no clue
When you hoes say 'stop', I be damned if I freeze
I truly believe my city's under siege? out up on the streets tryin' to come on up
Got caught slippin', and got caught the hell up
Just tryin' to make some money wit my rhymes
Cheddar for my baby, then live right
Got me a room and a couple of rocks
Raised on the streets, yes, the school of hard knocks
? betta pay me, ready or not
Findin' dead bodies all on your block
? gotta get paid, and that's on the real
Broke on the smoke, then you know how I feel
I miss the real gangsta's, and that's on the real
Got locked up while chasin' the scrill...My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
'cuz the teacher's a ? , he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke ? , I think it'd be cheaper
if I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
'cuz it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
Hear them say "You want some more?"
Livin' on a see-sawMy names Derrick, I'm from Queens right there on Merrick
Raised of honesty, loyalty, good merits
Gotta lil sister and my pops just perished
And I just came home so my freedom I really cherish
Young when they bagged me, seven in the can is torcher
And I just did that for manslaughter
Odds was against me, murder in the second degree
Made it less 'cause I gave 'em a plea
That's the past, now a dude home tryna clean up his past
When all ? kno me for is the past
And my minds always thinking how to pocket some cash
They know if something ever sparked it'll ? it and blast
Now I'm tryna live straight and get my act together
But my moms struggling, she putting scraps together
Long time ago, when I wasn't home she was cleaning my room
Cried when she found a gat in the dresser
Said no child of hers woulda had dat, never!!!
But with all the dirt I was doing
I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda protect us
Stead of me sellin ? forever
She rather be ina shop right, getting bags together
Passing endeavors, wont allow me to get work
Forced me to get work
On apps they ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes you'll hire me
? DON'T LIE TO ME!!!
I gotta lil sister that's nine
Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I think she feeling
But he don't help with the bills and I'm back on the script
So we don't go broke, I'm back to this hammer that I hafta tote
Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, only ? on the Ave. with coke
Only man in the house, I gotta bring in cash
And those two chicks a month that mom get don't last
Lil Sally still young she developing fast
Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a hell of a task
Then it clicked me, plain close, cops came to get me
But knew that I had mine on threaten to hit me
And I moved swiftly, said they had a warrant
They knew about it all they said they had an informant
I'm back in this caged up cell
With the apes in jail, now I'm back in this eight by twelve
See I tried to live right
But society ain't made for ? to live right
Mommy just write
Mommy make sure Sally keep her ? tight
And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, it's iight
When we gonna learn to treat our people sacred
Theres some type of way kid, we're all related
When we gonna grow and get rid of the hatred
'cause this ? happens on a regular basis, this ? happens on a regular basis
This type of ? happens everyday kiddLittle brother this is all we got
Me and you will be cruel
Even though it doesn't seem like a lot, it is
So don't be thinkin negative
I know just how you feel when you got time to ? I'll tell you how it is
I know you might be unsure
Cause it gets rough out there and when it rains and pours
I stole shoes from stores hung out with cool cats
Put cars on flats broke windows with bats
And that's not all even made prank phone calls
I was flossin and sloshin in Fox Hills Mall (So whattup y'all?)
After all please check my credentials
I once got busy in the whenchles yeah
So throw your hands in the air
Wave em around if you've been treated unfair
Yeah cause no one cares (no one cares, no one cares)
Top of the stairs (top of the stairs, top of the stairs)How many of them boys was wit ya
When you had that little TV
You had to hit on to get a picture
I'm walkin with the snub
[? ] ? do a lot of slick talkin in the club
Til they coughing on the rug
I aint never had much but a walkman and a bud
My role model was gone
Snortin up his drugs
Bad enough they want me to choke
My boi' just got poked in the throat
Now its an R.I.P. shirt in my coat
Now im speedin' reminiscin'
Holdin' my weed [here] never listen
If I see him , then im'a lif' him
And Maybe that'll even the score
But if not it'll be me on the floorWhat you know about solitary
Locked down, no commencary
And you wild or ready
And you just seen your mom get buried
You got drowns, comin' in all kinds of flurries
What you know about your towel on your cell when you alone at night
Or a jailhouse hunger srike
Or you sittin' in your cell and just zone one night
And you think "damn, I'm neva comin' home one night"
You got 5 years in, neva been flown a kite
You hearin' grown men moan at night
They got you stuck in the can
White man got you ? ' your hand
Your wife on land ? ' your man
What you know about no parole
Life in the hole
Lifes cold, you be eatin' them swags
Guards on the nightshift they be beatin' you bad
The hardest ? turned ? , be sleepin' wit ?
What you know about gettin' and shippin' balloons
Keep switchin' positions in the visitin' room
Gotta take Ex-Lax, hope you did it in time
Gotta ? in your palm just ta get ta her rhyme
And you talkin' 'bout your life is this, your life is that
Your life ain't ? , your life is whack -
I once was blind but now I see
I ask the LORD above to have mercy on me
I'm misguided by these ghetto streets
Time made a change, it ain't the way it used to G
What happened to the strong ? ?
Other men got us dying over drugs and colors
But everything gon' G
We can kick it all day but we're going to hold the night
Wannabe's steady putting in work
Breaking up family's and that sure do hurt
But you wanna claim this, you wanna claim that
I can cry until my eyes got sour but that ain't going to bring him back
I ain't going out cheap
I ask the LORD to save my soul before I lay me down to sleep
Because we keep singing the same old song
It goes on and on, 'til the break of dawnthis is a mans world,thats what my old man told me,
in the living room listening to the oldies,
playing dominoes drinking shots of stoli's,
with his friends we refer to them as homies,
drug dealers and addicts some parolees,
pimps and macks superflys and goldies,
i remember everything them cats showed me,
how to kick it with the females and roll weed,
it seems pop took more time to scold me,
i figured that was his little way to control me,
through hard times he never did console me'
instead he eyeballed and spoke coldly,
i was your son but you didnt really know me,
i lived life like everything was rosey,
standing firm on the concrete below me,
a part of you old dude low and behold meHe was a powerful general, the smell from his breath was Ballantine
I think it was the year '89
He stayed the freshest, Polo boots, wallies with them colorful low gooses
Coming from Medina, we boost
We up in A&S, slipping and dipping to Bedstuy
Native, he used to beatbox, thousands'll listen
Yo, that's before, the Wu got on, him and Allah Just'
And RZA, came to the Island one morn'
A ? could dance to slow music, outdrink any ?
On the benches, while we hitting ? , he sold loosies
Five foot seven, a legend was born, Russell 'Ason" Jones
I know him for his braids and lessons
A wise man with knowledge 120, kept a flag on his chest
A right hand, you quick, serving you Remy
Yo, let's toast to the fallen, lost forgotten
Aiyo, if ? could hear me, then roll up some broccoli
Ason, the heart of a lion, a purified mind
The way he did it, with a mic and some wine
I would never forget the days we used to sit back
Days I be all up in the crib, listening, holding, align him and yo
I just miss this ?
And now I understand the meaning of love, when I kissed the ? Right before he pulled the trigger, and ended her life
he thought about the cold pain with the platinum and ice
and he felt strong standing along with his new brothers
cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover
but what he saw made him start the cringine studder
cuz he was starring into the eyes of his own mother
she looked back at him and cried, cuz he had forsaken her
she cried more painfully, than when they were ? her
his whole world stopped, he couldn't even contiplate
his corruption had succesfully changed his fate
and he remembered how his mom used to come home late
working hard for nothing, cuz now what was he worth
he turned away from the woman that had once given him birth
and crying out to the sky cuz he was lonely and scared
but only the devil responded, cuz ? wasn't there
and right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold
and so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul
they say death take you to a better place but I doubt it
after that they killed his mother, and never spoke about it
and listen cuz the story that I'm telling is true
cuz I was there with Billy Jacobs and I ? his mom to
and now the devil follows me everywhere that I go
infact I'm sure he's standing among one of you at my shows
and every street cypher listening to little thugs flowe
he could be standing right next to you, and you wouldn't know
the devil grows inside the hearts of the selfiish and wicked
white, brown, yellow and black colored is not restricted
you have a self destructive destiny when your inflicted
and you'll be one of gods children and fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting ?
so when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never
because the dance with the devil might last you foreverWelcome to Jamdown, poor people a dead at random
Political violence, can't done! Pure ghost and phantom, the youth
Dem get blind by stardom
Now the Kings Of Kings a call
Old man to Pickney, so wave unno hand if you with me
To see the sufferation sicken me
Them suit no fit me, to win election them trick we
Den them don't do nuttin at all
Come on let's face it, a ghetto education's basic
A most a the youths them waste it
And when them waste it, that's when them take da guns and replace it
Then them don't stand a chance at all
And that's why a nuff little youth have up some fat matic
With the extra magazine inna them back pocket
And a bleach a night time inna some black jacket
All who not lock glocks, them a lock rocket
Then will full you up a current like a short circuit
Dem a run a roadblock which part the cops block it
And from now till a morning not stop clock it
If them run outta rounds a bruck back ratchetNow ain't nobody tell us it was fair
No love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there
He passed away and I didn't cry, cause my anger
wouldn't let me feel for a stranger
They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along
I was lookin for a father he was gone
I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs
They showed a young brother love
I moved out and started really hangin
I needed money of my own so I started slangin
I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks
It feels good puttin money in your mailbox
I love payin rent when the rent's due
I hope ya got the diamond necklace that I sent to you
Cause when I was low you was there for me
And never left me alone because you cared for me
And I could see you comin home after work late
You're in the kitchen tryin to fix us a hot plate
Ya just workin with the scraps you was given
And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin
But now the road got rough, you're alone
You're tryin to raise two bad kids on your own
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
Pour out some liquor and I reminsce, cause through the drama
I can always depend on my mama
And when it seems that I'm hopeless
You say the words that can get me back in focus
When I was sick as a little kid
To keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did
And all my childhood memories
Are full of all the sweet things you did for me
And even though I act craaazy
I gotta thank the Lord that you made me
There are no words that can express how I feel
You never kept a secret, always stayed real
And I appreciate, how you raised me
And all the extra love that you gave me
I wish I could take the pain away
If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day
Everything will be alright if ya hold on
It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciatedYou don't know me, fool
You disown me, cool
I don't need your assistance, social persistance
Any problem I got I just put my fist in
My life is violent but violent is life
Peace is a dream, reality is a knife
My colors, my honour, my colors, my all
With my colors upon me one soldier stands tall
Tell me what have you left me, what have I got
Last night in cold blood my young brother got shot
My home boy got jacked
My mother's on ?
My sister can't work cause her arms show trax
Madness insanity live in profanity
Then some punk claimin' they understandin' me
Give me a break, what world do you live in
Death is my sect, guess my religionFour cashious's gonna rain 20%
I gotta ? n' ? ' so I can make up for de rent
Cuz ain't nobody gonna gimme ? if I don't take it
There's too much ? ' money so I'm gonna make it
And when I make it I'm still the same ?
So quit actin' like a ? if my pocket's gettin' bigger
I'm pimpin' out my game like Pretty Toni in de mack
Alwayz watchin' my back, with my ? gat
I do what I gotta do, I sell my rocks like a slanger
I say "I don't give a ? " and be a gangbanger
I go back and forth in the penn ? n' trip
Havin' little ? lookin' up to me
Yeah, the ? feels good, I won't lie
A real ass ? 'till the day I ? ' die
So pass me the weed so I can take me a hit [of what?]
of the same old ? .. -
Straight from cop killer queens a juvenile named jack
At the age of 17 yo this kid jack started slingin' ?
He's on the road to riches baggin' ?
He's in clubs takin' pitchers drink your finger always into sess
His lifestyles buck wild honey child
Got a shorty named val she stays on the isle
He started slingin' at the age of 17
His heart's made of steel kid his minds full of green
He got his first ounce made a grand 400
3 bills to get fresh he other bills to get blunted
And wit the letter g he bought the letter o
Next thing you know man he's rakin' in the dough
He put his people down 'cuz say that?s only right
For dem to get keys dem and dem is mad tight
Set-up organation organize on the block
Nobody's slingin' on the block eeh yo we got this block on lockIn search of brighter days
I ride through the maze of madness
Struggle is my address
Where pain and ? lives
Gun shots comin from the sounds of blackness
Given this game with no time to practice
Born on the Black list, told I'm below average
A life with no cabbage
That's no money if you from where I'm from
Funny, I just want some of your sun
Dark clouds seem to follow me
Alcohol that my pops swallowed bottled me
No apology, I walk with a boulder on my shoulder
It's a Cold War - I'm a colder soldier
Hold the same fight that made Martin Luther the King
I ain't usin' it for the right thing
In between Lean and the fiends,
hustle and the schemes
I put together pieces of a Dream
I still have oneUp early in the morning lacin up my british knights
Throwin up my deuce sign, ? with the street life
Never knew no better cause my mommy never taught me
Going out to get the ? that mommy never bought me
Only ten years old and I can't stay away from trouble
But you don't give a ? cause you ain't never had to struggle
And everybody's tellin me it's get greater later
I need to get my ? right now, cause it ain't ? in my refrigerator
And I done struggled for my whole life
Seeing my moma layed up with a different ? everynight
And when you see me you can spot a crook
Cause I'm going through her ? pocket book
I'm going out to get my papes
Cause she don't give a ? about me anyway
And my daddy's doing two terms
And all she ever does is sit around and smokes sherm
My mommy never hugs me
I'm callin deuce my family, cause these ? say they love me
I'm steady dustin chumps off
And ready for the battle if the ? would ever jump off
So send my ass to hell
Its either being covered up with some dirt, or boxed in a cell
Anyway that's what it looks like
If I don't hurry up and get my ass up out the street lifeBy the age of 16, he hugging the strip mean
Thick chains, big rings, plus he kept his kicks clean
Had the same get rich scheme
As rich preem, Nicky & Fritz
? he did it was strictly for chips
Though only difference with this kidd it was much more violent
He used to light the bat with an oasis of raw talent
Running around the street like he wasn't ducking murders ever
When all he had to do was put a couple words together
March 24, 94
His life took a turn for the worst a brush in with the law
Charge was attempted murder, with a burner that had more bodies
It was a chance he wouldn't get off
When they dropped him off
They dropped him off in a saw
Sent the ? up North
Where he started rapping about all the ? he saw
From the drugs
To the guns
To the ?
To the bums
In the slums
He said "A Change Gon Come"Yeah, I wish the President would stop lyin'
Black babies would stop cryin'
And you brothers would stop dyin'
I wish the police would stop killin'
Politicans stop stealin' and actin' like they not dealin'
When they know they got bricks on the street
At the country club, fixin' to eat
I can see 'em now
I wish we'd get this ? figured out
And stop goin' the trigger route
And actin' all ******ed out
On the block with the nine cocked
I wish we try and stop, stop pushin' for the prime box
I wish we wasn't so obsessed with death
Tell me is it cuz we blessed with less?
I don't know really
I wish the world was safer, I'm scared to travel abroad
That's why I travel with the LORD
I wish a cab would stop for me in the rain
I know you wanna call me insane
I'm a dreamer
It won't cost them, but it will cost us
And right now, believe me, you lost usI was always taught my do's and don'ts
For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't
I'm from Brooklyn, a place where stars are born
Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn
and ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up
from fiends, cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up
Kids are slingin in my lobby
Little Steve and Bobby
Gettin paid but it's a life-threatening hobby
Yeah, they still play hide and seek
The fiends seek for the ? , and they hide and let the cops peep
Grown folks say they should be out on their own
Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home
Because they lifestyle is hectic, so ? hectic
Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are ejected
My lifestyle was so far from well
Coulda wrote a book with a title "Age 12 and Goin through Hell"
Then I realized the plan
I'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man
So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front
Cause it's the ? who front, they be pullin stunts
Back on the Ave of Lavonia and Bristol with a pistol
Stickin up Pamela and Crystal
You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest
kid come home from doin the bid and nuthin changes
What is the meaning of CRIME (what?)
Is it Criminals Robbin Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?
Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard
Tryin to solve the puzzles to why is life so hard
Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!
Shots ring off and now one of them lay down
It's so hard to escape the gunfire
I wish I could rule it out like an umpire
But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist
Only the players change, so...Time fly's by
There's so many people trying to make-it in world
So am I, I can't lie
I be on the side like "Yeah!"
Anything move and I'm there
Soon as I hear money calling I pick up the cell
Cautious
Cause my little man in the cell
I can't even tell
What's the set-up, But,
Sometimes I don't care I'm dead-up
As soon as I get up I'm prepared
To lockdown the town like I'm the mayor
You know, stocks and shares, not this year
Laid back in the cut, No, not this year
It's a all out, brawl out, fall out the line
In my boot camp it's a thin line
Who the truth, who lying
Who the cat, who lying
Who ? back, who firing
Who the raw, who the cook
Who shake, who shock
Criminal mind from a crook
A page from a book
Motivation from a push
Look, it's hard enough being a black man or a brown man
Right now we held down man
And you can tell we in hell now man
Let's get to heaven because we hell bound man
Let's hold it down man...Im riding low white walls on the caddy steel
Im high as the rocks all the way to Lattyville
Not far from fatha figures stop ask him how yah papi feel
Clean cut n drank keep the head nappy still
Guttaville, yeah we broke out here
Peel the road like blunts when u smoked out there
Imagine takin the stunt some place where ? left you
Then they tried to test you, you made them all respect you
See, thats exactly where my people come from
The grind, the audience the slash and beans come from
We done walked through the stormy weather sleep with my gun
Theres a lot of math i dont wanna teach to my son
The hide of rocks, the stove and the beaker be one
See the simple mind will always have to pay a hard price
Where im from its cold, we keep the heater at night
jay aint the only one that had to live the hard knocked lifeNow I'm 13 smokin' blunts, makin' green,
Or on the drug scene, ? the football team,
Risk it, rupt ur spleens, by the age of 16,
Hearin' the coach scream, make my lifetime dream,
I mean, I wanna blow up, stack my doe up,
So school I didn't show up, and ? my flow up,
Mom said that I should grow up, and check myself,
Before I wreck myself, disrespect myself,
Put the drugs on the shelf, naww! I couldn't see it,
Scarface king of New York, I wanna be it,
Rap was secondary, money was neccessary,
Untill I got encarcerated, kinda scarry,
See 74' march 8, set me straight, not able to move behind a great steal gate,
Time to contemplate, damn were did I fail,
All the money I stacked, was all the money for bail
I remember back in time
Before all the homies died
Before all the dollars and nines
I knew that I was goin' somewhere
Let me take you back in time
Before I even got the rhyme
Before I had nickels and dimes
I knew that I was goin' somewhere -
I put my soul through the ink
Bless a path with thoughts at my faults
Before I grow extinct
My back-bone disowned by zone
Why roam? called home
But now on I'm all alone
Just Proof, no shine, no friends, just fans
No wonder my hands, tight where the Internet ends
I take back most of the flack
The stress smokes, press me close to the ?
Like my pops, the ghost of my past
Dime and mud, JD and stucky
Lately I'm lucky, I don't hate me to touch me
Maybe I'm ugly inside, but smiling to make it
I love you dawg, and that's how ever you take it
The fame is a illusion, I'm still loosing
In this game, with the rules and..
I feel clueless, the streets with the hills blue less
Cops knocking at the door, got me looking real foolish
But I still do this, like I love it, even though I thug it
Keep flossing lights in public, the subject y'all don't know
Stars won't grow, who would dream that scars would show?
Minus the MTV videos with slim
"Up In Smoke" D-12, and many shows with Em
It's still me dawg, no change for change
It's strange, when it pours it rains
I take it back..It's been 22 long hard years and still strugglin
Survival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrival
I peep at the shape of the streets
And stay awake to the ways of the world cause ? is deep
A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.
Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15
A young buck sellin drugs and such who never had much
Trying to get a clutch at what I could not touch
The court played me short, now I face incarceration
Pacin', going up state's my destination
Handcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of us
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
But as the world turns I learned life is Hell
Living in the world, no different from a cell
Everyday I escape from Jakes givin chase, sellin base
Smokin bones in the staircase
Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?
Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth
Who explained working hard may help you maintain
to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and ? rocks
and stray shots, all on the block that stays hot
Leave it up to me while I be living proof
To kick the truth to the young black youth
But shorty's running wild, smokin sess, drinkin beer
And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear
Neglected for now, but yo, it gots to be accepted
That what? That life is hectedSmellin stale fresh out the county jail
Coppers gave me hell in a cell
But now its mo' murder to make mail
They thought my heart was playin life at a different pitch
But i stick to the scrip
Dump a snitch in a ditch
Its 94 i came to be ? around
Paranoia of a jack so i'm quick to draw down
The only way i gets my mail is to be off in your ass
With a ak or a uzi screamin : give me your cash ?
So back to ? on up
Cause can't nobody stop this ? to sellin a d thats raw and uncut
? over fiends
Laughin in their faces sellin ?soap? to ? can die anyday
? come showed off in them jacks g
Another homie eyes wide open dead in my backseat
We never thought that they would get him
My ? was like a soldier we'd never knew that the bullet hit him
Thought to myself was ? with my homie's life
He picked the crime do or die now he pays the price
To look in struggle on his face with his gat in his hand
My ? died
With the face of a desperate manWe gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace
It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
so the police can bother me
And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do
But now I'm back with the facts givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up,
? you up and ? smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can't touch this
I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool
my mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
& I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
some punk that I roughed up way back
comin' back after all these years
rat-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it isWhen I was five years old, I realized it was a road
But at the end, I ain't seen lots of pots of gold
I seen a long cell block, the box, the hold
Six hundred fenced in - some innocent, some rotten souls
Some men with men - stop it, whoa
I ain't runnin up in ? but a broad on her back
Tryin to cop a small hammer, move out like +Shawshank+
with +Redemptions+, I got my mind on revenges
They tryin to ? me at the same time keep me alive
I'm movin out like Adebisi on +Oz+
With my skully on tilt, two whacks in my palm
Posted up in the yard, everyday I think of pokin the guard
Throw a ? a ? turnin me in
Tryin to ? a ? turnin me thin
Food soakin in lard, news fools get opened in cards
with (??), in this prison life, what you livin like?Wish the earth wasn't so apocalyptic,
I try to spread my message to the world the best way I can give it,
We can make it always so optimistic,
If you don't listen gotta live my life the best way I can live it,
I pray for justice when we go to court,
Wish it was all good so the country wouldn't have to go to war,
Why can't we kick it and just get em on,
And in the famous words of Mr. King "Why can't we all just get along",
Or we can find a better way to shop and please, And I
Hope we find a better way to cop a keys, And I
Wish everybody would just stop and freeze,
And ask way are we fulfillin these downfalls and prophecies,
You can be wrong if it's you doubting,
With the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains,
And only the heavenly father and ease the hurt,
Just let it go and keep prayin on your knees in church!!
And let's HOPEYou only got one life to live
That's all they give you to do it
You could ? your way through it
Or stay true, it can be complicated cause ?
Be gettin' shot in the cross
People and names get lost
The people in the lane get tossed
The streets'll eat your ass alive
Take your positions with pistols, bare hands, and knives
And nobody's surprised if somebody
Don't survive the dusk to see dawn
It's treacherous how we was left to die
On the streets that we be on
? sleepin' on them corners that you ? on
Probably cause society felt they didn't belong
Now who in the ? made it this way for us
Got all these little ? slangin' that yay
Because it ain't like they make high levels gainable
And that punk piece of American pie just ain't obtainable
So how can I substain a full life before death
Man, I'm left out here to make it by my ? self
Now c'mon, who gives a damn when you can't afford the turkey or ham
Livin' off of Raemon Noodles, beef jerky, and Spam
Now that's sad, but that's a fact of life
All I can see in front of me is up for grabs
Come off that slab
Cause poverty will push a ? over that brink
Over the edge especially if you don't know your ledge
So instead of being without, I'm hustling
Tryin' to get through these ungodly days
Thinkin' of ways to get the ? outta this maze
A man will committ a crime 'cause a ? ' crime pays
I'm going through a phase you don't grow out
Until there's a reason a mother ? gots to pour out
His 40 on the curb, disturbed and left with no doubt in his mind
But still sometimes he don't know why
He walkin' around just hopin'
He can get one more try to make it
It's ? he going through, but yo, he gots to take it
You can't fake it, to get that hi lifeThey say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam
But that's ? , I'll show you why it's totally wrong
Cuz if another country invaded the hood tonight
It'd be warfare through Harlem, and Washington Heights
I wouldn't be fightin' for Bush or White America's dream
I'd be fightin' for my people's survival and self-esteem
I wouldn't fight for racist churches from the south, my ?
I'd be fightin' to keep the occupation out, my ?
You ever clock someone who talk ? , or look at you wrong?
Imagine if they shot at you, and was rapin' your moms
And of course Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons
We sold him that ? , after Ronald Reagan's election
Mercenary contractors fightin' a new era
Corporate military bankin' off the war on terror
They controllin' the ghetto, with the fear of attack
Tryna distract the fact that they engineerin' the ?
So I'm strapped like Lee Malvo holdin' a sniper rifle
These bullets'll touch your kids, and I don't mean like ******
Your body be sent to the morgue, stripped down and recycled
I fire on house ? that support you and like you
Cuz innocent people get murdered in the struggle daily
And poor people never get ? and struggle daily
This ain't no alien conspiracy theory, this ? is real
Written on the dollar underneath the Masonic seal -
ran to the phone got a hundred guys like me
and all we have is precious minutes to reach our people our free
brother listen be strong for momma
let her know I never meant to cause her no drama
the pain make my vain cries thunder
will I recover my name and still discover how the game become us
look how they done us
watered down our pride and drunkers riders g's and hustlers
we gotta guide our younger theres better days among us
never let the rage you under upstage the promise of tomorrow
or the seeds to follow will feel the sorrow
for the misery we wallowing time swallowing
them better days in this gaze got my mind boggling
oh momma and hey lady I miss you
and them ways you raised me them hard head things that drove you crazy
realize ya son took a lot of heart from ya
its phone check time I'm gone momma I love you -
Nearly, nearly, nearly finished...
? , I'm so tired from it all though.
I'm practically dead from dropping this list. Altogether this ? took me over 10+ hours to do.
Tired.