Uh, you know I still run that, that blood of a slave Boiling in my It's just hot until a nigga take it no more Blood of a slave, heart of a my voice up
Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I up out of that grave, wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt They thought make another "illmatic" But it's always I'm moving
Never backwards here's another classic See-notes is from the sky By now the credits starring nas executive poet, produced, directed by The kid escobar
Narration describes the lives and tribes in the ghetto trying to survive The feature opens this young black child Finger scratch, burns on the sofa, turning the tv down Mary girls, 45's playing, soft in the background
Food from mornings was hash browns Stepped over dope fiends, out the door, all of us paw I learned the difference between the snitches, the ones, and who's soft And the murderous, crews
People jumping from roofs, shotguns pumping made it my youth Walking thin lines, ages seven and nine That's the age I was on my album cover, this is the I know the thirst water like Moses
Walking through the hot desert searching to be is my end and my new beginning nostalgia Out for the in a mega places, it's like a in the matrix I it at all, did it all, most of why'all been pop for a minute
Spitters, and the game get rid of y'all Y'all got there but y'all didn't get it all, I want my back Hate to cease plan it's the rap reaper man To double up hustlers, bidders, niggaz who real
Professionals, stick up childs dreaming for Let my words you, get inside you crypts to pirals this is survival
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