| [00:18.86] | If all I saw was gangsters |
| [00:20.75] | Coming up as a youngster |
| [00:21.82] | Pussy and money the only language I clung ta |
| [00:24.11] | Claim ta, unrolled myself up to become one |
| [00:26.29] | Ain't ya happy I chose rap |
| [00:28.39] | I'm amongst tha |
| [00:29.46] | Streets deceiving |
| [00:30.33] | Can't believe my achievements |
| [00:31.68] | Cultural strata |
| [00:32.68] | Persona's that of a non-needer |
| [00:33.82] | Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver |
| [00:36.55] | For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless |
| [00:38.62] | To my g's on the flee from the coppers |
| [00:41.54] | Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors |
| [00:43.64] | From the slums I come up a phoenix |
| [00:45.91] | Caked up, tryna take what I'm eating |
| [00:48.03] | Came up a dismissive kid |
| [00:49.75] | You lucky if you allowed to witness this |
| [00:52.15] | Savvy mouth |
| [00:53.56] | Wild, hardly |
| [00:54.69] | A man's man |
| [00:55.43] | Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties |
| [00:57.63] | Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's |
| [00:59.36] | For years, all that |
| [01:01.06] | How could I not be dead |
| [01:02.57] | This old German |
| [01:03.72] | Said I was a thug with a notty head |
| [01:05.11] | Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled |
| [01:07.34] | With a face like he wonder where I got my bread |
| [01:09.72] | Probably all these stones he see |
| [01:12.29] | From my shows overseas |
| [01:13.56] | From crime to rhyme |
| [01:15.78] | My stories is I'm from the home of the thieves |
| [01:35.45] | Blessed |
| [01:37.54] | The lord is a g, he gotta be |
| [01:39.06] | Who's the God of suckers and snitches |
| [01:39.89] | The economy |
| [01:41.18] | Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe |
| [01:42.57] | Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro |
| [01:44.30] | He'd want me to spit this |
| [01:45.82] | Only the strong survive |
| [01:47.26] | Nas bear witness |
| [01:48.52] | The hypocrisy is all I can see |
| [01:50.68] | White cop acquitted for murder |
| [01:52.08] | Black cop cop a plea |
| [01:53.19] | That type of shit make me stop and think |
| [01:55.40] | We in chronic need of a second look of the law books |
| [01:57.59] | And the whole race dichotomy |
| [02:00.15] | Too many rappers, athletes, and actors |
| [02:02.37] | But not enough niggas in NASA |
| [02:04.86] | Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion |
| [02:07.32] | But when it comes to residuals, they look past us |
| [02:09.65] | Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us |
| [02:11.99] | Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandanas |
| [02:42.74] | Assassinations |
| [02:44.66] | Diplomatic relations |
| [02:45.78] | Killed indigenous people |
| [02:47.06] | Built a new nation |
| [02:48.21] | Involuntary labor |
| [02:49.35] | Took a knife split a woman naval |
| [02:50.61] | Took her premature baby |
| [02:51.93] | Let her man see you rape her |
| [02:53.26] | If I could travel to the 1700's |
| [02:54.83] | I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite |
| [02:57.02] | Through your covenant |
| [02:57.84] | Love to sit in on the Senate |
| [02:59.03] | And tell the whole government |
| [03:00.31] | Y'all don't treat women fair |
| [03:01.49] | She read about herself in the bible |
| [03:02.83] | Believing she the reason sin is here |
| [03:04.25] | You played her, with an apron |
| [03:06.25] | Like bring me my dinner, dear |
| [03:06.93] | She the nigger here |
| [03:08.17] | Ain't we in the free world |
| [03:09.61] | Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls |
| [03:11.63] | Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casually |
| [03:14.19] | Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me |
| [03:17.00] | How far we really from third world savagery |
| [03:19.45] | When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be |