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Produced by: Nick Leon |
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<Verse 1: AK> |
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Flashback, seen no future in my past acts |
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Back strap fit me looser, had no pack packed |
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Bad stats at my school, mom and dad spazzed |
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So what's a youngin' to do when cops flash badge? |
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I mean, I always had a knack for rap |
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Illmat', Ready to Die, etcetera tracks |
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Feel trapped? Put on a track, you're feeling relaxed |
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I just wanna do the same shit with my craft |
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<Verse 2: Issa> |
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Through my raps, mother****ers thought we born winning |
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When I was raised up in a graveyard for dreamin' |
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My hood taught street business, ain't no physics |
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Do drugs, bust guns and bring killings |
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Tool tucked, give a **** that cold feeling |
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School sucked, most days was gon' miss it |
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Screwed up, too ****ed to stay with it |
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Fool's luck, how I ain't end up finished |
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<Verse 3: AK> |
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With age, I learned facts, like everything got a catch |
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Especially when you're black, young with the world on your back |
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Dreams of a hooper diluted, clouded by smoke on the track |
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Guided by Lucifer, Lucy's grip on my thoughts on the loose leaf |
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I do my drugs with the goonies, yell at a coffin will suit me |
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Now or later, meet the maker if that karma pursue me |
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Went to church just to search, no reality found |
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Growth spurt in my spirit, holy watered us all down |
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<Verse 4: Issa> |
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Down in the gutter, straight guns and butter |
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Good mother tried to save me and my brother |
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Hood won us, had plans to take us under |
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Street lovers, can't take the hood from us |
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You see? That's what made a **** me |
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Part is in the heavens, but part in these streets |
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Part a living legend, but part is still weak |
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Though I know knowledge is part what I seek |
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<Verse 5: AK> |
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Hennessy sipping, cripping since I was a teen bitch |
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Still a street hitter, psychedelics helped me see bigger |
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'Member me, mister? Wouldn't make it past next semester |
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Try to test us, but it's straight A's in my life lessons |
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Life threatened living in the hood, cause the odds against us |
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Had to get up every single morning, hear my father's lectures |
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Mom pressure kept a strong home for us under vision |
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Too pretentious, still I felt alone, no one I could vent to |
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<Verse 6: Issa> |
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No leaving, pleasure seeking, I need it |
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Drug feeling, love fiending, dark season |
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No teaching from my peers was my reason |
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Til I learned my heart was all I needed |
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Around some friends that sucked, could not tell |
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Now I found myself, but I'm still needing help |
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Now I swim the deep end like Michael Phelps |
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Learned to seek the sun rays out 'til I melt |
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<Verse 7: AK> |
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Puffing on that Jane in the staircase |
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Never was at home, always had my momma scared straight |
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Selling all my clothes, just so I could buy some rare Bape |
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Had to hold my own, cop O's and used to sell eighths |
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Felt like I was chose, don't know if I was too baked |
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But I know my soul was born to do some cool things |
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Stay up on my toes until that fat fool sang |
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Had to chase my goals in hopes to see a new day, Lord |
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<Verse 8: Issa> |
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A young man dealing with old depression |
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Drugs inside of my system, was looking for intervention |
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Love inside of my spirit was buried under some treasure |
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Pieced together some lessons that helped me sharpen my weapons, uh |
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My mind sharp, divine thoughts, I blast off |
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Beyond stars and solars, the God fall |
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Was reborn with wings, but also two horns |
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The two sides, duality made a new form |
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