[00:07.56]Produced by: Nick Leon [00:14.85] [00:16.98]Talking 'bout, uh, uh, what they talking 'bout? Uh [00:19.58]What they talking 'bout? Uh, uh, what they talking 'bout? Uh [00:22.84]What they talking 'bout? Uh, uh, what they talking 'bout? Uh [00:27.08]What they talking 'bout? Uh, uh, what they talking 'bout? Uh [00:29.94] [00:30.26]"You're stupid to think the world's small enough to heal all of us." [00:33.94]That's what the teacher say, "Go to the preacher, pray." [00:36.54]But you gotta pay, gotta fight you a cheaper way [00:37.63]Look into myself, try to find me a deeper way [00:39.50]Chase my dreams, create, made me me today [00:41.36]As I prosper, know the feds, they watch us [00:43.04]So I stunt, obnoxious when I'm in they binoculars [00:45.04]A ***** just wanna be free, I was in the same hood and nobody rescued me, my ***** [00:47.03]Cut the pleading, believe and self-achieve, nothing with greed, just be yourself, uh [00:52.06]Realize that your strength is locked inside [00:54.35]It's the thing that you feel when you open your eyes [00:56.13]That feeling's alive, go ahead, homie, and fly [00:58.05]Someday you'll get high, leaving your mark in the sky [00:59.77]But 'til then, I got this, **** your hypothesis [01:01.82]New York blocks is where I built my conscience up [01:03.71]Brought my ganja, tryna live life prosperous [01:05.62]Since a toddler, had a dream and I followed it [01:07.52]Be dodgin' them hollow tips [01:08.56]Throw some shots, they missed [01:09.52]Had to stay optimist' [01:10.30]Neighborhood pharmacist kept me on Cloud 9 when the hard times would hit [01:13.60]All time high, first time I hit Fronto, kid [01:15.29]By eighteen, had the mind of a king [01:16.82]Gotta learn from mistakes, what it takes to lead [01:18.69]But of course had a taste of the evil seed [01:20.47]So I could truly see what I was meant to be [01:22.44]Who would know much later, I would be much greater? [01:24.36]Every parent-teacher conference told my mom I'm a failure [01:26.51]'Cause they couldn't see the prophet in disguise as a player [01:28.23]Rise on them haters, I defied all the labels [01:30.18]Swear to keep it G 'til I'm at the crossroads, and the Grim Reaper creep, tryna banish my soul [01:32.06]Used to sin every week, had to let the pain go [01:35.41]Gotta practice what you preach, but I ain't an angel [01:38.05]Mobbed in the streets, what the blue rag know? [01:39.46]Know no power and the peace, but I took the gang road [01:41.22]But despite all the demons tryna bring me down low [01:43.17]I just rise like a phoenix and I shine all gold (shine all gold) [01:50.75] [01:51.03]Flatbush was my stomping ground [01:54.18]Mother wanted to keep me out [01:56.25]Tried to put me on a different route [01:58.09]Sent me to schools to smarter crowds [01:59.97]Problem is when my school was done [02:01.79]Would come home to my neighborhood [02:03.78]Learned the ways of the hood I'm from [02:05.54]But in my books, I was a gifted one [02:07.56]My conduct, it was ****** up [02:09.30]I was the class clown since I started up [02:10.99]Getting good grades, but that's not enough [02:12.89]Had a 99, but my behavior sucked [02:14.97]High school, a ***** found drugs [02:16.74]Prescription pills, not the good stuff [02:18.68]Xanax when I'm waking up, Percocet just to keep me up [02:22.45]Nose candy was a favorite, 8-ball for only two of us [02:26.52]Popping 'X' was another one until we found out the s**t was cut [02:30.13]Ain't it funny, when you think about it? [02:31.87]My mother thought that these schools were bound to [02:33.74]Keep a ***** on the straight and narrow [02:35.58]Instead, they filled me up with problems [02:37.56]But in the same breath, I wouldn't change s**t [02:39.71]Because the pain is what made me become great [02:41.49]Everything that I go through—because faith [02:43.56]It was hard but it caused me to change s**t [02:45.14]Addiction lead to depression [02:46.84]And in depression, you're taught some lessons [02:48.77]If you listen, then keep on pushing [02:50.58]Then the solution cause evolution [02:52.66]Obstacles come inside of your path [02:54.55]And make you switch up and step on the gas [02:56.18]If you look back inside of your path [02:57.97]You find direction, it's like your own map [02:59.99] [03:01.37]It's like your own map, uh, it's like your own map, uh [03:04.60]It's like your own map, uh, it's like your own map [03:22.78] [04:14.04]