Untitled #2 (Conception to Procession)

Song Untitled #2 (Conception to Procession)
Artist Has-Lo
Album In Case I Don't Make It

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Untitled 2 (Conception to Procession) - Has Lo
[01:44.44] From the moment of my conception
[01:46.42] The foot of my fate using the effort of every muscle
[01:49.37] He could in his frame
[01:50.40] To put on his weight to push on the gas peddle
[01:53.03] Propelling me here to be the cat you might've slept on
[01:56.28] Who deads your career
[01:57.19] Is destiny
[01:58.39] All I had to do was stay alive
[02:00.67] Biding my time waiting for a sign to arrive
[02:03.33] It came in the form of L L's tape
[02:05.54] The one that had the same title
[02:07.05] As the picture on the front of the case
[02:09.91] 9 years young in '88 Rob Base
[02:12.74] Easy E Cube Ren and Dre G and Kane
[02:15.76] Hammer on the first lp EPMD
[02:18.85] Nike Reebok Fila
[02:20.98] Scrape a little tar off the curb hold the needle on your spinning top
[02:24.96] Dubbin the cassettes on my double deck boom box
[02:28.23] Funny 3 quarter length tube socks
[02:30.82] Run to the Koreans on the ave for a stop watch
[02:34.13] Until the next thing black red and green
[02:36.69] Black power and I***m and talks by Farrakhan
[02:40.67] Pete Rock and the Mecca Don
[02:42.71] Groomed in the game by an array of all of the ultimate in rap ever
[02:46.90] In any era to do it '92 Redman '93 Black Moon
[02:51.98] I'm into high school mad puerto ricans
[02:54.80] In came the Wu Tang everything changed
[02:57.72] The world of hip hop watched Rza make 7 straight classics
[03:01.62] Nas shredded my dome with Illmatic
[03:03.93] I spent '95 married to the Mobb
[03:06.61] When a mixtape used to be a Maxell U R
[03:09.94] S and S Tony Touch Clue and Doo Wop
[03:12.76] Me and mike used to swap lps in class
[03:15.80] He let me hold both Jeru and Gang Starr
[03:18.96] We'd bang a joint like 3 days and trade off
[03:22.38] When the real heads owned
[03:23.63] And shaped the heart and the soul of the art
[03:25.96] That we authored and sold
[03:28.07] Until them devils strong armed the control
[03:30.68] And now it's all corporate but I ain't in the pulpit
[03:33.70] I just remember Tribe
[03:35.16] I just remember walking to the store in the summertime
[03:38.02] To cop stakes is high
[03:39.60] I just remember Com' Sense Bootcamp Clik
[03:42.71] Black scully hats and my first pair of timbs
[03:45.69] I saw rappers locked up saw them get free
[03:48.65] I saw rappers lose their careers over beef
[03:51.66] I saw rappers on coke crack w**d and D
[03:54.56] I saw them in their prime die younger than me
[03:57.23] I saw Biggie die on the eve of Life After Death
[04:00.17] To see him alive in the video is eerie inside
[04:04.17] Murdered by his own people I guess
[04:06.25] 'Pac wasn't enough
[04:07.60] I thought that all we got is us
[04:09.50] The world of hip hop had hardly even gotten up
[04:12.52] Then Big L took a fricking bullet in the brain a couple of weeks past
[04:16.78] When my born day came and Freaky Tah from the Lost Boyz got slain
[04:21.55] And Big Pun's health caught up and his heart failed him
[04:24.61] We sat angered 'cause we ain't have the power to save him
[04:28.05] But all things come to an end
[04:29.91] Spring summer to fall
[04:31.45] Winter to spring and summer again
[04:33.62] Now I'm hearing hip hop is dust in the wind
[04:36.66] 6 feet deep covered in dirt and dead under my timbs
[04:40.70] Like it was one of our peeps so we keep the essence alive
[04:44.21] 'Cause that's the way that some of us live
[04:46.20] I feel the hunger in my stomach and ribs
[04:48.47] I'd rather starve for my craft than slob for the madness
[04:52.29] And it's a couple cats holding it down
[04:54.67] But in the mainstream current overflow and they drown
[04:57.62] Drown
[04:58.31] Drown