| The light is there, yeah yeah | |
| See I come from | |
| Mississippi | |
| I was young and runnin' wild | |
| Ended up in | |
| New York City, where | |
| I had my first child | |
| I named the boy | |
| Nasir, all the boys call him | |
| NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive | |
| Let's go, hey hey hey hey | |
| Tribrary of these rap skits, styles | |
| I mastered | |
| Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it | |
| But I'm still number one, everyday real | |
| Speak what | |
| I want, I don't care what y'all feel' | |
| Cause I'm my own master | |
| My Pop told me, "Be your own boss keep integrity at every cost" | |
| And his home was | |
| Natchez Mississippi | |
| Did it like | |
| Miles and | |
| Dizzy, now we gettin' busy | |
| Bridging The | |
| Gap from the blues, to jazz, to rap | |
| The history of music on this track | |
| Born in the game, discovered my father's music | |
| Like Prince searchin' through boxes of | |
| Purple Rain | |
| But my Minneapolis was | |
| The Bridge, home of the | |
| SuperkidsSome are well-known, some doin' bids | |
| I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks | |
| If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo | |
| See I come from | |
| Mississippi | |
| I was young and runnin' wild | |
| Ended up in | |
| New York City, where | |
| I had my first child | |
| I named the boy | |
| Nasir, all the boys call him | |
| NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive | |
| Greatest man alive, gre-gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive | |
| The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues | |
| Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's | |
| Old school, new school, know school rules | |
| All these years | |
| I been voicin' my blues | |
| I'm a artist from the start, hip-hop guided my heart | |
| Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in | |
| Spoffard, juvenile delinquent | |
| But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with | |
| Books to read, like | |
| X and stuff' | |
| Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia | |
| In art class | |
| I was a compulsive sketcher of | |
| Teachers in my homeroom, | |
| I drew pix to mess them up' | |
| Cause none'a them would like my style | |
| Read more books than the curriculum profile | |
| Said, "Mr. Jones please come get your child'Cause he's writin' mad poems and his verses are wild" | |
| I was born in | |
| Mississippi | |
| I was young and runnin' wild | |
| Moved to New | |
| York City, where | |
| I had my first child | |
| I named the boy | |
| Nasir, all the boys call him | |
| NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive | |
| Greatest man, the great-greatest man alive | |
| Hey hey hey, my | |
| Poppa was not a | |
| Rollin' Stone | |
| He been around the world blowin' his horn, still he came home | |
| Then he got grown, changed his name to | |
| OluCome on, tell 'em 'bout all the places you gone to | |
| I been to | |
| Saudi Arabia, | |
| Mozambique | |
| Madagascar, | |
| Paris, Greece | |
| The Middle | |
| Africa is where we lived | |
| Better known as | |
| Queenbridge | |
| Nas, Nas you don't stop | |
| Olu Dara in the house, you don't stop | |
| Muddy Waters' | |
| Howling Wolf you don't stop | |
| From the Blues to | |
| Street Hop you don't stop | |
| Tell 'em Pop | |
| See I come from | |
| Mississippi | |
| I was young and runnin' wild | |
| Ended up in | |
| New York City, where | |
| I had my first child | |
| I named the boy | |
| Nasir, all the boys call him | |
| NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive | |
| Greatest man alive, gre-gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive | |
| Rest in peace | |
| Ray Charles |
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