[00:18.81]I'm focused on trying to stay focused
[00:21.30]In '06 I dealt with some blows now the process
[00:23.67]Of sorting through these ghosts feels hopeless
[00:25.41]It's bogus but it still get under the skin like osmosis
[00:28.29]Yo this world's so sick
[00:30.00]Like Ne-yo's hit or folks with no OHIP
[00:32.49]Don't slip
[00:33.39]Know who the staff you roll with is
[00:35.19]Your staff can turn to snakes like Moses'
[00:37.47]And motives get exposed quick
[00:38.97]When cash is grossed so don't trip
[00:40.65]No sum is worth what your soul is
[00:42.93]No sun immersed in the coldness
[00:45.30]No son, reverse like the poles
[00:47.07]Get past the bitterness out the standstill
[00:49.47]It wasn't in the cards
[00:50.61]Some people can't deal
[00:51.81]Play the hand you're dealt
[00:52.80]Might make a grand still
[00:54.15]A man's real if he can return like Grant Hill
[01:06.30]Those that know Shad know that hes on his own path
[01:08.67]Like a nomad rolling without a road map
[01:10.89]Just 4 lads in a topaz with no gas
[01:13.08]I call my car Roc-a-fella cause it's got a broke dash
[01:15.63]My generation's movin' so fast
[01:17.28]Runnin' like old taps
[01:18.24]From fear and stress and tears choked back
[01:20.31]Boys hold gats while the girls got no strap
[01:22.74]On their dresses and won't eat 'less it's low-fat
[01:25.02]Between low-cut tops and teeth with gold caps
[01:27.27]That new school looks more crazy than OCAD's
[01:29.79]When there's no dads to say don't show that
[01:31.95]Make em look in your eyes, your mind's where the show's at
[01:34.65]And you need more than beats for a dope track
[01:37.11]Even with more hooks than a coat rack
[01:39.15]And more hot lines than 1-800 phones
[01:41.10]That's why most cats in this rap game just don't last
[01:43.86]It's not vocab they need to grow it's gonads
[01:46.11]And back bone so they can speak and not hold back
[01:48.54]We need folks with faith that's gon' last
[01:50.55]To teach the younger ones how to live with no mask
[01:52.95]And pose the kind of questions that most just won't ask
[01:55.32]And keep that hope stashed like a safe of cold cash
[01:57.75]Our vision for the future can't fade or go black
[01:59.91]Like some Kodak pictures at night with no flash
[02:02.37]Them cats be pollutin' the air like smoke stacks
[02:04.62]Let the freshness in get your windows cracked