[00:04.07]Produced by: Nick Leon [00:57.28] [00:57.53]Flashback, seen no future in my past acts [00:59.37]Back strap fit me looser, had no pack packed [01:01.85]Bad stats at my school, mom and dad spazzed [01:04.11]So what's a youngin' to do when cops flash badge? [01:06.40]I mean, I always had a knack for rap [01:08.02]Illmat', Ready to Die, etcetera tracks [01:10.34]Feel trapped? Put on a track, you're feeling relaxed [01:12.65]I just wanna do the same s**t with my craft [01:15.00] [01:15.49]Through my raps, ****** thought we born winning [01:17.50]When I was raised up in a graveyard for dreamin' [01:19.82]My hood taught street business, ain't no physics [01:22.02]Do drugs, bust guns and bring killings [01:24.31]Tool tucked, give a ***** that cold feeling [01:26.60]School sucked, most days was gon' miss it [01:28.88]Screwed up, too ****** to stay with it [01:31.07]Fool's luck, how I ain't end up finished [01:33.20] [01:33.48]With age, I learned facts, like everything got a catch [01:35.50]Especially when you're black, young with the world on your back [01:37.72]Dreams of a hooper diluted, clouded by smoke on the track [01:39.89]Guided by Lucifer, Lucy's grip on my thoughts on the loose leaf [01:42.21]I do my drugs with the goonies, yell at a coffin will suit me [01:44.42]Now or later, meet the maker if that karma pursue me [01:46.83]Went to church just to search, no reality found [01:49.22]Growth spurt in my spirit, holy watered us all down [01:51.34] [01:51.62]Down in the gutter, straight guns and butter [01:53.94]Good mother tried to save me and my brother [01:56.27]Hood won us, had plans to take us under [01:58.62]Street lovers, can't take the hood from us [02:00.87]You see? That's what made a ***** me [02:03.12]Part is in the heavens, but part in these streets [02:05.38]Part a living legend, but part is still weak [02:07.59]Though I know knowledge is part what I seek [02:09.74] [02:10.03]Hennesy sipping, cripping since I was a teen ***** [02:12.27]Still a street hitter, psychedelics helped me see bigger [02:14.71]'Member me, mister? Wouldn't make it past next semester [02:16.80]Try to test us, but it's straight A's in my life lessons [02:19.08]Life threatened living in the hood, cause the odds against us [02:21.44]Had to get up every single morning, hear my father's lectures [02:23.62]Mom pressure kept a strong home for us under vision [02:25.88]Too pretentious, still I felt alone, no one I could vent to [02:28.12] [02:28.38]No leaving, pleasure seeking, I need it [02:30.58]Drug feeling, love fiending, dark season [02:32.74]No teaching from my peers was my reason [02:35.02]Til I learned my heart was all I needed [02:37.23]Around some friends that sucked, could not tell [02:39.70]Now I found myself, but I'm still needing help [02:41.93]Now I swim the deep end like Michael Phelps [02:44.02]Learned to seek the sun rays out 'til I melt [02:46.29] [02:46.59]Puffing on that Jane in the staircase [02:48.64]Never was at home, always had my momma scared straight [02:50.56]Selling all my clothes, just so I could buy some rare Bape [02:52.86]Had to hold my own, cop O's and used to sell eighths [02:55.18]Felt like I was chose, don't know if I was too baked [02:57.51]But I know my soul was born to do some cool things [02:59.75]Stay up on my toes until that fat fool sang [03:02.08]Had to chase my goals in hopes to see a new day, Lord [03:04.29] [03:04.63]A young man dealing with old depression [03:07.19]Drugs inside of my system, was looking for intervention [03:09.42]Love inside of my spirit was buried under some treasure [03:11.63]Pieced together some lessons that helped me sharpen my weapons, uh [03:13.92]My mind sharp, divine thoughts, I blast off [03:16.55]Beyond stars and solars, the God fall [03:18.69]Was reborn with wings, but also two horns [03:20.89]The two sides, duality made a new form [03:27.69]