This for the soldiers, Stay my niggaz Gangsters, Stay up my niggaz, real
the cut in a rage Loadin' up my Mac, to my crib, to get my 12 gauze One of my boys got shot, huh Fuckin' around, in that million dollar
A educated didn't have no money for college he was taught The street knowledge, part of the To us fightin' in the street of becomin' a strong black man
Every two I see Sam Pitchin' out my check with no but I still don't give a damn I gotta make my dough My kill, down, 'til I started seein' cash flow
Everything happens for a reason, the season To the perfect treason Who brought me to the land, of man? To about and catch trout, by the dozens
Even had my cousin down, at the feet shackled A seat, to Milledgeville Nigga real, how can you kill another When it's your brother? standing
I never thought about, talked what I did Just experimented as a young Gump Them days long gone, bells done rung no mo' Spendin' hours at the house in my chair
Slow mo', custom funk fingerprinted to a hucklebuck stuck with the art that my skin carries, scary If I had to plot again, needin' my stick Yeah, gidgets to pidgits, to Philly and the crew?
Nothin' else to prove, fold a plot chrome Salt teddy bears in the college student's room Speed, Gipp got too Watch that dude, that fool, still standing
Unscathed, cause is pain for soldiers to feel MC's, are running out of to say Radio stations are running out of to play
Still standing, unscathed, 'cause of This for to feel MC's, are running out of to say Radio are running out of songs to play
On the sick side, of South 33rd Avenue, 600 Workers have wash and car The ese's got the fresh Chevrolet's for
Twenty G's or better, the whole tanked up What? On the walls, there is no letters Buddha say, the Bloods are strictly They besieged, on the beats, Goodie MoB, run the
can have the streets, asphalt caught many suckers Slippin' on wet floors, we out the signs On krokers, C I T Y, a pity Bein' suckled dry, like a
On his momma's titty before I retired I hit to cellulite with big room pesquite on the porch Poundin', like cartoon Ennis, old efforts the Sunday down, Crenshaw sparkin'
Zoned out, off the ink, for Goin time and metal detectors I can't my weapon And I be no dope dealer
'Cause they be done put a hit out on a nigga, plus I keep up With them keys, locked in the Backseat drivers havin' out-of-body Wakin up, somewhere else, standing
Yeah, each and every element that exists in is manifested from a thought first Through the mind's eye of the unseen power in the sky Gave to Mother Earth and all it's worth to you and I
most loved invention, my consciousness is an extension Of Him, yet I'm flesh and bone a mind of my own To dig deeper than the surface, I learn From your upcomings or your downfalls we all have purpose
It's amazing, how the streets do the of raising Of children who end up dead hearing what you said And it's sad, so all I can write is what I had of life good and bad with a pen and pad
It seems like abortion, I just write a small portion either crumpled up or torn without lettin the thought be born Young minded, and blinded in those days, I didn't to Have a thought that I raise, nurture, and care for
Be for, help prepare for, the times ahead When someone doesn't agree with is said, huh And if they did, don't get all 'cause that's my kid Just be thankful that it's good and somebody
Now, the listener in want the same flow but I gotta let it grow Clever to let it go, if I don't wanna rap no mo' And I'll make sure that no one forgets It's immortalized forever, on wax and cassettes
And when someone goes to the and purchases it for ten The life cycle starts all again And I was this music as my soul mate, to procreate And give back I was given, a life worth livin'
And I, am still standing, Pain is for suckers to are running out of things to say, and radio stations out of songs to play, shit!
We still standing, And is for suckers to feel, huh And running out of things to say