Y'all want to live my life Y'all just can't live my life Y'all want to live my life Y'all just ain't fit to live my life Since a youngin' a lesson was told, was never to fold Shit, I started rappin' around eleven years old I was destined to blow and unlikely to fade Copped me a pen and pad, see my life in the page Nobody seen my vision, they thought I'd be in prison They though I'd be in prison for movin' keys of ism But as you see, I didn't, I just succeeded, listen Now they watch when they spot every V I sit in Let me stick to the plot, since a kid I would watch My favorite channel was the music video box Daddy Kane, Rahkim, every hit he would drop Flu Dog, Wu Tang, down to Biggie and Pac I inherited charm but in a house hardly 'Cause was beggin' my moms to hit the house party Shit to dance, not a chance I was in there for that I was highly inspired just hearin' 'em rap They would crowd the mic and indeed get it crackin' Of course, I was too short to see who was rappin' I ain't bother to speak, just startled by heat Listen to all of the words and nodded to beats That's when I decided that that was my goal To rap and to flow, my tracks to be sold All across the country for the cost of money Until the life the dreams or the lost and hungry This a movement you see, all this movin' you see Basically, this is more than just music to me This is tears and sweat, for the tears I sweat Every year I stretched, I won't dare forget This a movement you see, all this movin' you see Basically, this is more than just music to me This is tears and sweat, for the tears I sweat Every year I stretched, I won't dare forget Y'all want to live my life Y'all just can't live my life Y'all want to live my life Y'all just ain't fit to live my life I was likely fi'n to pop and the ciphers with a bop Thirteen felt like one of the nicest kids to drop More practice I done made, the more nicer that I got People loved me, I end up ghost writin' for the block Mama said I was a fool, now I wasn't cool 'Cause round fourteen, shit, I done dropped out of school Yeah, that was my past broke, rap was my cast Gettin' caught writin' rhymes in the back of the class I was triflin' to all, I hit dykeman for raw Shot five with the students, rolled dice in the halls They said, dude, take a T.O., almost caught with a kilo Principal threatened me, hey, I'm callin' ya P.O. So drop out is what I had to do Ciphered up the block and battled on the avenue Ran up on cats like faggot, I will battle you Battle what he babbled and I had him by a rap or two This a movement you see, all this movin' you see Basically, this is more than just music to me This is tears and sweat, for the tears I sweat Every year I stretched, I won't dare forget This a movement you see, all this movin' you see Basically, this is more than just music to me This is tears and sweat, for the tears I sweat Every year I stretched, I won't dare forget Y'all want to live my life Y'all just can't live my life Y'all want to live my life Y'all just ain't fit to live my life