[00:15.71]These were known as samurai
[00:30.12]Always been conflicted
[00:32.49]Always been conflicted
[00:34.25]I strained to obtain so I could give more
[00:36.82]Most dangerous when there was nothin' to live for
[00:39.03]For that fetti bag, ready to let the six pour
[00:42.00]Was on nothin' long enough, need a big score
[00:44.62]The harmony dreamin' had me constantly schemin'
[00:46.98]Rarely peace, and barely a beast, armed like a demon
[00:49.36]Singin' tough upbringin', swore it was the hardest
[00:52.66]A lot of years starvin', before I was a artist
[00:55.14]When bringin' tomorrow the sorrow plus the hurt
[00:58.11]We finally eatin', reapin', it's just dessert
[01:00.63]It's just, so trust my work from dusk to dirt
[01:03.24]Committed rhymes, if you give it time, much is learned
[01:06.50]Firm dense, but earn strength with a young store
[01:08.91]Brought hammers to grammar school - hence the gun talk
[01:11.89]The coke drought made it a cesspool
[01:14.94]What they ail is steel, need a fresh jewel
[01:17.08]Enthralled in crime not more but nah less cruel
[01:19.53]Attractive street where active eat the less drool
[01:22.24]I speak brass tacks to my last acts
[01:24.93]My gift might be missed if mixed with trash raps
[01:27.90]The nights whole, slice your loaf if you ain't breakin' bread
[01:30.47]Some hate wait and beg, we take instead
[01:36.82]Mommy told me, "Be a good boy
[01:37.80]Need you alive, please survive, you my hood joy"
[01:39.53]Pops told me, "Stay strapped, son
[01:41.56]You need the shotty, be a body or catch one"
[01:45.09]Always been conflicted
[01:47.80]Always been conflicted
[01:50.22]Always been conflicted
[01:53.23]Always been conflicted
[01:55.76]Where you from? During what years?
[01:57.80]You from the slum, where you was upstairs?
[02:00.45]What you seen? What you been through?
[02:03.88]Where your team? What your men do?
[02:06.85]In over your head, who gon' defend you?
[02:09.74]Who gon' defend you?
[02:10.74]Demonstrative, get you popped where the monsters live
[02:13.85]Your people pay for your mistakes, hope they comp' your wiz
[02:16.45]From honor, I don't speak drama I don't know about
[02:19.09]I hold the pen, ain't goin' know how it was going out
[02:21.80]Not blessed, divine, want to live good the rest are mine
[02:24.72]Fly rewards for my recordings, don't stress the shine
[02:27.53]Wrote the screenplay, direct, and set design
[02:29.92]They writin' deadlines, I ain't pressed for time
[02:32.67]That haste makes waste, you saunder and slip
[02:34.87]But I find when formin' a script, let's ponder a bit
[02:38.99]Mommy told me, "Be a good boy
[02:40.99]Need you alive, please survive, you my hood joy"
[02:44.34]Pops told me, "Stay strapped, son
[02:46.28]You need the shotty, be a body or catch one"
[02:49.82]Always been conflicted
[02:52.80]Always been conflicted
[02:54.63]Always been conflicted
[02:57.37]Always been conflicted
[03:03.19]Always been conflicted
[03:08.00]I got my good from mom duke
[03:13.32]I got my math from pop duke, for real
[03:17.72]Conflicted
[03:19.44]Always been conflicted