Uh, you I still run with that, that blood of a slave in my veins It's just hot until a nigga can't take it no Blood of a slave, of a king Turn my up
Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I crawled up out of that grave, wiping the dirt, my shirt They thought I'll another "illmatic" But always forward I'm moving
Never backwards stupid here's another See-notes is falling the sky By now the credits roll starring nas poet, produced, directed by The kid slash
Narration describes the lives and tribes in the ghetto trying to survive The feature opens with this black child Finger scratch, cigarette burns on the sofa, the tv down jane 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 the difference between the snitches, the real ones, and who's soft And the murderous, hungriest
People jumping from roofs, shotguns pumping made it through my Walking very thin lines, ages seven and That's the age I was on my album cover, is the rebirth I know the thirst water like Moses
Walking through the hot searching to be free This is my end and my new beginning Out for the in a mega places, it's a glitch in the matrix I seen it at all, did it all, of why'all been pop for a minute
Spitters, sinners and the game get rid of Y'all got there but y'all didn't get it all, I my style back Hate to cease y'all it's the rap reaper man To them double up hustlers, bidders, niggaz who
Professionals, stick up childs for meals Let my words you, get inside you From crypts to pirals this is
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