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[00:00.00]Consider my love
[00:03.94]The days when we were
[00:08.76]Together so young
[00:14.34]Our love was enough
[00:17.49]Remember?
[00:19.50]1974
[00:21.37]The Lord put me on this planet with a plan to be as hard as granite
[00:24.79]Calm spirit, no panic at the childbirth
[00:26.90]Verse read
[00:27.73]Mother shaped my head with a kiss
[00:29.45]“Damn! he got a strong grip…” as I suckled
[00:31.90]My Father’s knees buckled from the joy
[00:33.74]Luck would have it that this bouncing baby boy would
[00:35.90]Gravitate towards being
[00:37.76]Poetic, Emceein' in the future
[00:39.68]But for now on the nipple like a hookah
[00:41.61]Fast forward, play games and duke a bit
[00:44.03]The years progress
[00:45.19]Messed with cats that dib and dabbled in chess
[00:46.66]Less strategical but meaningful
[00:48.27]Growing was completed so fast
[00:49.82]3rd grader doing 5th grade math
[00:51.75]Knew the library staff and half the books I read shed light
[00:55.26]Damn! Those Arabian Knights
[00:57.02]Was influenced by love that be of my birthright
[01:01.26]Consider my love
[01:06.17]The days when we were
[01:11.42]Together so young
[01:16.65]Our love was enough
[01:19.91]Remember?
[01:21.57]Sundays at church, watching the preacher work the pulpit
[01:24.65]Sit next to Ma
[01:25.70]Pay attention or you’d get pent against the wall
[01:28.42]Times was serious but love conquered
[01:30.74]Above sponsors of hate
[01:32.14]So we had to relate in those days
[01:34.32]Hip Hop was ill
[01:35.49]Conforming to the whack performing was unreal
[01:38.05]And listen that’s real!
[01:39.39]We’d kill for a chance to go dance and wop
[01:42.07]Pop music was hot and new
[01:43.57]Boys would pop and groove with high tops and loose shoes
[01:46.48]To hip hop that incorporated jazz and blues
[01:49.24]In high school, arts were plentiful
[01:51.16]Magnetic programs romance was synthetic
[01:53.73]Dead it in a minute so much love, but love I’m tryin to get it
[01:57.22]Through roads and streets
[01:58.95]Avenues and creeks
[01:59.98]Seek what my heart desires buying tracks that meet
[02:02.54]Complete now so…
[02:04.29]Consider My Love
[02:09.13]The days when we were
[02:14.30]Together so young
[02:19.20]Our love was enough
[02:22.83]Remember?
[02:24.62]Those family functions
[02:26.18]No interruptions
[02:27.23]Bustin “The Dozens” on kin folk
[02:28.75]Mainly your cousins
[02:29.85]It’s all love
[02:30.66]In good spirit
[02:31.61]Used to hear it from the older generation
[02:33.58]Chasin' them dreams and stacking cream for all of us
[02:35.84]We used to boost a bit
[02:37.17]Young kids with the itch to have them cool fits and fly kicks, Nike Dunks
[02:41.18]California raised, so the hustle was engrained from day one
[02:44.34]Fake one’s that front
[02:45.90]Give it up
[02:46.81]Childhood was good
[02:47.93]From Stockton to Inglewood
[02:49.20]Boggs Tract in fact is where the foundation lies at
[02:52.07]Now Mac trucks back up to speed the track up
[02:54.58]I plead, don’t crack up the dirt before we act up
[02:57.22]From the foot to the brain impact cuts the soul deep
[03:00.19]A whole heap but peep we still gain
[03:02.45]Things have changed but memories stay the same
[03:05.16]This brave heart parts with…
[03:06.46]Consider My Love
[03:11.64]The days when we were
[03:16.69]Together so young
[03:21.85]Our love was enough
[03:25.20]Remember?