Uh, you know I run with that, that blood of a slave in my veins It's just hot until a can't take it no more Blood of a slave, heart of a Turn my up
Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I crawled up out of grave, wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt They thought I'll make "illmatic" But it's forward I'm moving
Never backwards stupid here's another See-notes is from the sky By now the credits roll starring nas poet, produced, directed by The kid slash
Narration describes the and laws 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 jane girls, 45's playing, soft in the
Food see-town's mornings was hash browns Stepped dope fiends, walking out the door, all of us paw I learned the difference the snitches, the real ones, and who's soft And the murderous, hungriest
jumping from roofs, shotguns pumping made it through my youth Walking very lines, ages seven and nine That's the age I was on my album cover, this is the I the streets thirst water like Moses
Walking through the hot desert searching to be This is my end and my new beginning Out for the in a mega places, like a glitch in the matrix I seen it at all, did it all, most of 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 my style back Hate to cease plan it's the rap reaper man To them double up hustlers, bidders, who real
Professionals, up childs dreaming for meals Let my words guide you, get you crypts to pirals this is survival
Blood of a slave, of a king of a slave, heart of a king Uh, uh of a slave, heart of a king Uh, yea Huh,