Baby, bring ashtray in here And bring my mail, on top of the counter baby Thanks, this? I don't know mail came for you today Fiscal, professional, what's about man? Anyway, the will be ready in 20 minutes
Allah, hope this scribe reach ya hands in good health As for self, no sense of my cards been dealt in a cell, fishscale, fifth year of my bid Finally got a chance to connect with my kids
kinda hard due to carelessness, I scarred they moms And temporary, I was barred voluntary the Nevertheless, it's issues I to address Pertainin' to certain statements made me confess
Faced with life, it bites when hit And wit crime come a lot of shit Too many co-defendants conspiracies Like the court system to keep the mind from thinkin'
Fog ya vision, it's just the odds of livin' But like me, most great men God in prison Illmatic, first heard ya bars of life I was up in Cansaki, niggas to fight
You touched to a lost population of men And no doubt, if ever out, never lock me again Faced wit 10 on state time, wit life on the It's fucked up when your own folks ain't you back
Learn to relax, spoke wit certain cats that adapt You know the streets to the pen, it's kinda hard to All the cars and the women, condos The clothes and the livin'
I seen division, of the population It's either submit, death or incarceration, I the combination Torn between rap and the fakes Some do it for the cap few relate
And been what I been at least in fraction So when spit you could feel the passion, I see you maxin' That Nas and that Riff started some shit It departed the system we should argue a bit
a glimpse of what's to come The past follow, hold the voice just hunger me holdin' my last I live that of a star without the title, I had to write you beyond tryin' to enlight you
It's a token of appreciation for bein' poet with no abbreviations Much from us all wish you much success Get yours, take money nigga, the rest, I'm signin' off And leave in the way I greet and say peace Keep in mind rep the streets, you that nigga
Word, gotta write back Ayo, boo I got any more of that mail out Got a few You gotta read this one, the shit right is deep, man Aiight, gimme a Okay, what's this one right Oh shortie Nashville, alright lemme see this
AZ, this is Camille Sugarhill been a fan And then to me you still a man A real card player reveals his hand And sincerely, I could say the feel ya jam
I sit and listen to your latest dishes in the kitchen Or twistin' the dreads on little Christian so sickenin', his father, we both miss him He was in a '99 car collision
I guess the best ones God get them, It's just the way it is in this system You remind me of his one concernin' when you speak You and him both got that funny of slur in y'all speech
At night it's like his face emerge in my sleep I smoke so that grief can stop disturbin' my peace My life's deep, it with the way that you rap I hate it when them commentators say that you
You left you was always years ahead of the rest My baby-father even felt your style, he say you was How you dress, how you move you in the public? Without a lot of luggage gotta love it how you thug it
Know that, that's right, big boy, okay, okay