[00:32.780]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[00:35.320]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[00:38.220]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[00:40.910]And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question:
[00:43.660]
[00:44.460]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[00:46.230]
[00:47.300]When shit hit the fan 'one two, one two'
[00:50.070]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[00:52.400]
[00:53.020]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[00:54.980]
[00:55.510]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[00:58.190]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[01:01.030]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[01:04.000]And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question
[01:06.650]
[01:07.160]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:09.270]
[01:10.050]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:12.540]Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends
[01:15.110]
[01:15.650]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:18.130]Do you believe in me? Are you deceiving me?
[01:20.660]Could I let you down easily, is your heart where it need to be?
[01:23.490]Is your smile on permanent? Is your vow on lifetime?
[01:26.370]Would you know where the sermon is if I died in this next line?
[01:29.230]If I'm tried in a court of law, if the industry cut me off
[01:32.040]If the government want me dead, plant cocaine in my car
[01:34.900]Would you judge me a drug kid or see me as K. Lamar
[01:37.880]Or question my character and degrade me on every blog
[01:40.680]Want you to love me like Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson
[01:43.550]I freed you from being a slave in your mind, you're very welcome
[01:46.440]You tell me my song is more than a song, it's surely a blessing
[01:49.360]But a prophet ain't a prophet til they ask you this question
[01:52.000]
[01:52.930]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:54.960]
[01:55.840]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[01:58.250]Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends
[02:01.570]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan
[02:03.500]
[02:04.120]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[02:06.760]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[02:09.560]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[02:12.340]And with that
[02:12.960]
[02:15.270]Do you believe in me? How much you believe in her?
[02:17.890]You think she gon' stick around if them 25 years occur?
[02:20.690]You think he can hold you down when you down behind bars hurt?
[02:23.570]You think y'all on common ground if you promise to be the first?
[02:26.300]Can you be immortalised without your life being expired?
[02:29.390]Even though you share the same blood is it worth the time?
[02:32.170]Like who got your best interest? Like how much are you dependent?
[02:34.990]How clutch are the people that say they love you and who pretending?
[02:37.890]How tough is your skin when they turn you in, do you show forgiveness?
[02:40.770]What brush do you bend when dusting your shoulders from being offended
[02:43.690]What kind of den did they put you in when the lions start hissing
[02:46.480]What kind of bridge did they burn, revenge or your mind when it's mentioned?
[02:49.480]You wanna love like Nelson, you wanna be like Nelson
[02:52.240]You wanna walk in in his shoes but you peace-making seldom
[02:55.050]You wanna be remembered that delivered the message
[02:57.590]That considered the blessing of everyone, this your lesson for everyone, say
[03:01.500]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[03:03.540]
[03:04.320]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[03:06.780]Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends
[03:09.430]
[03:10.080]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[03:12.000]
[03:12.740]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[03:15.290]Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message
[03:18.020]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[03:20.880]And if you riding with me nigga
[03:22.470]
[03:23.930]I been wrote off before, I got abandonment issues
[03:26.720]I hold grudges like bad judges, don't let me resent you
[03:29.490]That's not Nelson-like, want you to love me like Nelson
[03:32.160]I went to Robben's Island analysing, that's where his cell is
[03:35.150]So I could find clarity, like how much you cherish me
[03:37.750]Is this relationship a fake or real as the heavens be?
[03:40.510]See I got to question it all, family, friends, fans, cats, dogs
[03:43.730]Trees, plants, grass, how the wind blow
[03:46.120]Murphy's Law, generation X, will I ever be your X?
[03:49.080]Floss off a baby step, mobbed by the mouth of
[03:51.530]Pit bulls, put me under stress
[03:53.320]Crawled under rocks, ducking y'all, it's respect
[03:55.840]But then tomorrow, put my back against the wall
[03:58.070]How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead?
[04:00.820]Is it Moses, is it Huey Newton or Detroit Red?
[04:03.710]Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shoot or you assassin
[04:06.690]Is it Jackie, is it Jesse, oh I know, it's Michael Jackson, oh
[04:10.150]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[04:12.080]
[04:12.900]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[04:15.430]That nigga gave us Billie Jean, you say he touched those kids?
[04:18.800]When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
[04:20.550]
[04:21.230]The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it
[04:23.840]Let my word be your earth and moon you consume every message
[04:26.650]As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression
[04:29.450]And if you riding with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga
[04:32.460]
[04:48.140]I remember you was conflicted
[04:49.480]
[04:50.550]Misusing your influence
[04:51.960]
[04:53.030]Sometimes I did the same
[04:54.390]
[04:55.600]Abusing my power, full of resentment
[04:57.320]
[04:58.490]Resentment that turned into a deep depression
[05:00.340]
[05:01.730]Found myself screaming in the hotel room
[05:03.710]
[05:05.170]I didn't wanna self destruct
[05:06.460]
[05:08.000]The evils of Lucy was all around me
[05:09.890]
[05:11.580]So I went running for answers
[05:12.810]
[05:14.370]Until I came home
[05:15.440]
[05:17.010]But that didn't stop survivor's guilt
[05:18.700]
[05:20.400]Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned
[05:23.460]
[05:24.960]Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was
[05:26.970]
[05:28.170]But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city
[05:31.510]
[05:32.480]I was entering a new one
[05:33.600]
[05:35.160]A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination
[05:39.140]
[05:41.420]Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned
[05:44.190]
[05:45.570]The word was respect
[05:46.450]
[05:48.520]Just because you wore a different gang colour than mine's
[05:50.760]
[05:52.340]Doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man
[05:54.330]
[05:56.350]Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets
[05:59.090]
[06:00.670]If I respect you' we unify and stop the enemy from killing us
[06:05.460]
[06:07.310]But I don't know' I'm no mortal man' maybe I'm just another nigga
[06:13.680]
[06:16.340]Shit and that's all I wrote
[06:17.450]
[06:18.600]I was gonna call it Another Nigga but' it ain't really a poem'
[06:22.040]I just felt like it's something you probably could relate to' Other than that'
[06:26.590]now that
[06:26.900]I finally got a chance to holla at you'
[06:28.510]
[06:29.100]I always wanted to ask you about a certain situa--'
[06:31.870]about a metaphor actually' you spoke on the ground'
[06:36.020]
[06:37.020]What you mean 'bout that' what the ground represent?
[06:38.920]
[06:41.030]The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil
[06:43.300]
[06:44.340]Right
[06:45.170]That's how I see it' my word is bond'
[06:46.870]I see and the ground is the symbol for the poor people'
[06:49.710]the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and
[06:52.000]swallow up the rich people'
[06:53.400]Cause the rich people gonna be so fat'
[06:55.040]
[06:55.760]they gonna be so appetising' you know what I'm saying'
[06:57.810]wealthy'
[06:58.730]appetising' The poor gonna be so poor and hungry'
[07:02.450]you know what I'm saying it's gonna be like
[07:03.840]
[07:05.790]there might be some cannibalism out this mutha'
[07:08.840]they might eat the rich
[07:09.870]
[07:10.540]Aight so let me ask you this then' do you see yourself
[07:13.900]as somebody that's rich or somebody
[07:16.400]that made the best of their own opportunities?
[07:18.880]
[07:20.220]I see myself as a natural born hustler'
[07:22.130]a true hustler in every sense of the word' I took nothin
[07:24.970]I took the opportunities'
[07:25.540]
[07:26.150]I worked at the most menial
[07:28.340]and degrading job and built myself up
[07:30.520]so I could get it to where I owned it'
[07:32.410]I went from having somebody manage me
[07:34.270]to me hiring the person that works my management company'
[07:37.200]I changed everything
[07:37.990]I realised my destiny in a matter of five years you know
[07:41.110]what I'm saying
[07:41.600]I made myself a millionaire'
[07:43.130]I made millions for a lot of people now
[07:45.280]it's time to make millions for myself'
[07:46.370]you know what I'm saying'
[07:47.590]I made millions for the record companies'
[07:49.000]I made millions for these movie companies'
[07:50.930]now I make millions for us
[07:52.180]
[07:53.970]And through your different avenues of success'
[07:56.920]
[07:57.500]how would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity?
[08:00.240]
[08:01.230]By my faith in God' by my faith in the game'
[08:04.010]and by my faith in all good things come to those
[08:07.780]that stay true' You know what I'm saying'
[08:09.900]and it was happening to me for a reason'
[08:11.880]you know what I'm saying'
[08:12.570]I was noticing' shit'
[08:14.620]I was punching the right buttons and it was happening'
[08:17.490]So it's no problem' you know
[08:19.220]I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know'
[08:21.480]I'm finna go straight through
[08:22.400]
[08:23.730]Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart
[08:26.920]or somebody that only reacts
[08:30.510]when they back is against the wall?
[08:32.450]
[08:34.030]Shit' I like to think that at every opportunity
[08:36.650]I've ever been threatened with resistance it's been met with resistance'
[08:42.170]And not only me but it goes down my family tree'
[08:44.860]You know what I'm saying' it's in my veins to fight back
[08:47.160]Aight well' how long you think it take before niggas be like'
[08:52.140]
[08:53.270]we fighting a war' I'm fighting a war
[08:55.060]I can't win and I wanna lay it all down
[08:57.780]
[08:58.450]In this country a black man only have like 5 years
[09:01.520]we can exhibit maximum strength'
[09:03.490]and that's right now while you a teenager'
[09:05.120]while you still strong
[09:06.140]or while you still wanna lift weights'
[09:07.570]while you still wanna shoot back'
[09:09.220]Cause once you turn 30
[09:10.140]it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man'
[09:12.150]out of a black man in this country'
[09:14.180]And you don't wanna fight no more'
[09:15.660]And if you don't believe me you can look around'
[09:17.230]you don't see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafuckas
[09:19.560]
[09:20.540]That's crazy' because me being one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind
[09:25.570]I can truly tell you
[09:26.910]that there's nothing but turmoil goin'
[09:29.160]on so I wanted to ask you
[09:31.300]
[09:32.020]what you think is the future for me and my generation today?
[09:34.920]
[09:36.040]I think that niggas is tired of grabbin'
[09:37.730]shit out the stores and next time
[09:39.480]it's a riot there's gonna be'
[09:40.620]like'
[09:40.770]uh' bloodshed for real' I don't think America know that'
[09:44.730]I think American think we was just playing
[09:46.220]and it's gonna be some more playing
[09:47.250]but it ain't gonna be no playing'
[09:49.380]It's gonna be murder' you know
[09:50.710]what I'm saying' it's gonna be like Nat Turner'
[09:52.870]1831' up in this muthafucka'
[09:55.610]You know what I'm saying' it's gonna happen
[09:57.410]
[09:59.040]That's crazy man' In my opinion' only hope
[10:02.660]that we kinda have left is music and vibrations'
[10:07.310]lotta people don't understand how important it is'
[10:09.440]
[10:10.890]Sometimes I be like'
[10:11.930]
[10:12.510]get behind a mic and
[10:13.360]I don't know what type of energy I'mma push out'
[10:15.560]
[10:16.260]or where it comes from'
[10:17.440]
[10:19.180]Trip me out sometimes
[10:20.130]
[10:20.970]Because the spirits' we ain't even really rappin''
[10:23.280]we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us
[10:25.230]
[10:25.800]Damn
[10:26.960]
[10:28.880]I wanted to read one last thing to you'
[10:30.510]
[10:31.800]It's actually something a good friend
[10:33.220]had wrote describing my world' It says
[10:38.920]
[10:40.630]The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets
[10:42.600]that conceived it
[10:43.280]
[10:45.010]It's only job is to eat or consume everything around it'
[10:48.310]
[10:49.070]in order to protect itself from this mad city
[10:50.860]
[10:52.550]While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive
[10:55.940]
[10:57.240]One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him' but praises the butterfly
[11:01.190]
[11:02.540]The butterfly represents the talent' the thoughtfulness' and the beauty within the caterpillar
[11:06.810]
[11:08.840]But having a harsh outlook on life
[11:10.320]the caterpillar sees the butterfly
[11:11.800]as weak and figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits
[11:15.930]
[11:17.330]Already surrounded by this mad city
[11:18.690]the caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon
[11:21.330]which institutionalizes him
[11:22.650]
[11:24.490]He can no longer see past his own thoughts
[11:26.140]
[11:26.990]He's trapped
[11:27.480]
[11:28.630]When trapped inside these walls certain ideas
[11:30.390]start to take roots' such as going home'
[11:32.260]
[11:32.800]and bringing back new concepts to this mad city
[11:35.250]
[11:36.060]The result?
[11:36.520]
[11:37.390]Wings begin to emerge' breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant
[11:40.880]
[11:42.340]Finally free' the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered'
[11:47.750]
[11:48.720]ending the internal struggle
[11:49.880]
[11:51.330]Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different'
[11:54.010]
[11:55.130]they are one and the same'
[11:56.030]
[11:58.360]What's your perspective on that?
[11:59.680]
[12:02.420]Pac? Pac?
[12:05.380]
[12:06.830]Pac?!