Respect (Original Extended Version)
Nineteen-seventy somethin',
***** I don't sweat the date
My moms is late so I had to plan my escape
Out the skins, in this world of fly girls
Tanqueray and Hennessy until I cold hurl
Ten months in this gut,
What the ****
I wish moms'd hurry up so I could get buck
Wild, juvenile rippin' mics and ****
New York New York,
Ready for the likes of this, uh
Then came the worst date, May 21st
2:19, that's when my momma water burst
No spouse in the house so she rolled herself
To the hospital,
To see if she could get a little help
Umbilical cord's wrapped around my neck
I'm seein' my death and
I ain't even took my first step
I made it out, I'm bringin' mad joy
The doctor looked and said,
"He's gonna be a Bad Boy"

Now I'm thirteen,
Smokin' blunts, makin' cream
On the drug scene,
**** a football team
Riskin' ruptured spleens by the age of sixteen
Hearin' the coach scream
Ain't my lifetime dream, I mean
I wanna blow up,
Stack my dough up
So school I didn't show up,
It ****** my flow up
Mom said that I should grow up and check myself
Before I wreck myself,
Disrespect myself
Put the drugs on the shelf?
Nah, couldn't see it
Scarface, King of New York,
I wanna be it
Rap was secondary,
Money was necessary
Until I got incarcerated--kinda scary
C74-Mark 8 set me straight
Not able to move behind the great steel gate
Time to contemplate, damn,
Where did I fail?
All the money I stacked was all the money for bail

Ninety-four,
Now I explore new horizons
Mama smile when she see me,
That's surprisin'
Honeys is tantalizin',
They freak all night

Peep duckin' cops on the creep all night
As I open my eyes and realizin' I changed
Not the same deranged child
Stuck up in the game
And to my ****** livin' street life
Learn to treat life to the best,
Put stress to rest
Still tote your vest man,
****** be trippin'
In the streets without a gat?
Nah, ***** you're slippin'
If I'm pimpin on The F with **** on my breath
Original hustler with the muffler on the Tec
Respect to the Mac's and the Ac's
To the freaks in the Jeeps,
Lick shots to my peeps