[00:00.00]Untitled 2 (Conception to Procession) - Has Lo
[01:44.44]From the moment of my conception
[01:46.42]The foot of my fate using the effort of every muscle
[01:49.37]He could in his frame
[01:50.40]To put on his weight to push on the gas peddle
[01:53.03]Propelling me here to be the cat you might've slept on
[01:56.28]Who deads your career
[01:57.19]Is destiny
[01:58.39]All I had to do was stay alive
[02:00.67]Biding my time waiting for a sign to arrive
[02:03.33]It came in the form of L L's tape
[02:05.54]The one that had the same title
[02:07.05]As the picture on the front of the case
[02:09.91]9 years young in '88 Rob Base
[02:12.74]Easy E Cube Ren and Dre G and Kane
[02:15.76]Hammer on the first lp EPMD
[02:18.85]Nike Reebok Fila
[02:20.98]Scrape a little tar off the curb hold the needle on your spinning top
[02:24.96]Dubbin the cassettes on my double deck boom box
[02:28.23]Funny 3 quarter length tube socks
[02:30.82]Run to the Koreans on the ave for a stop watch
[02:34.13]Until the next thing black red and green
[02:36.69]Black power and I***m and talks by Farrakhan
[02:40.67]Pete Rock and the Mecca Don
[02:42.71]Groomed in the game by an array of all of the ultimate in rap ever
[02:46.90]In any era to do it '92 Redman '93 Black Moon
[02:51.98]I'm into high school mad puerto ricans
[02:54.80]In came the Wu Tang everything changed
[02:57.72]The world of hip hop watched Rza make 7 straight classics
[03:01.62]Nas shredded my dome with Illmatic
[03:03.93]I spent '95 married to the Mobb
[03:06.61]When a mixtape used to be a Maxell U R
[03:09.94]S and S Tony Touch Clue and Doo Wop
[03:12.76]Me and mike used to swap lps in class
[03:15.80]He let me hold both Jeru and Gang Starr
[03:18.96]We'd bang a joint like 3 days and trade off
[03:22.38]When the real heads owned
[03:23.63]And shaped the heart and the soul of the art
[03:25.96]That we authored and sold
[03:28.07]Until them devils strong armed the control
[03:30.68]And now it's all corporate but I ain't in the pulpit
[03:33.70]I just remember Tribe
[03:35.16]I just remember walking to the store in the summertime
[03:38.02]To cop stakes is high
[03:39.60]I just remember Com' Sense Bootcamp Clik
[03:42.71]Black scully hats and my first pair of timbs
[03:45.69]I saw rappers locked up saw them get free
[03:48.65]I saw rappers lose their careers over beef
[03:51.66]I saw rappers on coke crack w**d and D
[03:54.56]I saw them in their prime die younger than me
[03:57.23]I saw Biggie die on the eve of Life After Death
[04:00.17]To see him alive in the video is eerie inside
[04:04.17]Murdered by his own people I guess
[04:06.25]'Pac wasn't enough
[04:07.60]I thought that all we got is us
[04:09.50]The world of hip hop had hardly even gotten up
[04:12.52]Then Big L took a fricking bullet in the brain a couple of weeks past
[04:16.78]When my born day came and Freaky Tah from the Lost Boyz got slain
[04:21.55]And Big Pun's health caught up and his heart failed him
[04:24.61]We sat angered 'cause we ain't have the power to save him
[04:28.05]But all things come to an end
[04:29.91]Spring summer to fall
[04:31.45]Winter to spring and summer again
[04:33.62]Now I'm hearing hip hop is dust in the wind
[04:36.66]6 feet deep covered in dirt and dead under my timbs
[04:40.70]Like it was one of our peeps so we keep the essence alive
[04:44.21]'Cause that's the way that some of us live
[04:46.20]I feel the hunger in my stomach and ribs
[04:48.47]I'd rather starve for my craft than slob for the madness
[04:52.29]And it's a couple cats holding it down
[04:54.67]But in the mainstream current overflow and they drown
[04:57.62]Drown
[04:58.31]Drown