[00:04.87]These pages tell my life in the 'ville
[00:07.24]Out here raising hell with license to ill
[00:09.69]This raging bull trying to get paid in full
[00:12.34]Going off, not knowing soft gauge to pull
[00:15.06]Runaway Slave, wanted dead or alive
[00:17.54]I hide good, but my hood I could never disguise
[00:20.42]Not a quarter, drank muddy water
[00:22.00]We was needy, 6 feet deep fate, can't escape like Whodini
[00:25.81]On the road to riches, a driven youth
[00:28.51]All my adventures were slick, I'm living proof
[00:31.29]In fact, if life was wax, I'd spin & rewind it
[00:33.82]Get your minerals grinded being criminal minded
[00:36.59]Doing wicked acts, no righteous moves
[00:39.32]Press this, let's remove that necklace, nice & smooth
[00:42.14]A lot of grit, not a bit of a sweet town
[00:44.61]Try to match, catch a critical beatdown
[00:47.48]I'm poor from young, being called a bum
[00:49.99]My team was branded nubian, we all for one
[00:52.78]No lie, doe or die, weight out a bundle
[00:55.63]Tryna rule so we could move straight out the jungle
[00:58.43]My answer was walk like a panther
[01:01.18]Cause life is too short, and poor is a cancer
[01:03.72]Take a look around, we all repping with the neener
[01:06.40]You know, in case a fool wanna step in the arena
[01:09.03]In the beef, we at least taking magnums
[01:11.73]So if it pops, I'm licking shots, breaking atoms
[01:14.48]Fear of a black planet so they go in leary
[01:16.97]For knots we can't be stopped, that's low end theory
[01:19.72]After flips took trips with swiftness
[01:22.45]No enjoyment, our deployment was strictly business
[01:25.26]The inf is tight spent the night on the block
[01:27.78]The solution for heavy bread is as light as a rock
[01:30.37]Rolled rude for soul food, totally a threat
[01:33.26]Seeds is speeding, needing holy intellect
[01:35.98]No retreat, we deep, try devising
[01:38.55]Wild so sheets could pile 3 feet high & rising
[01:41.38]Raw crew, all true, you heard we blitz strangers
[01:44.09]Came wack, got aimed at with 36 chambers
[01:46.84]To the death, that's how we kill static
[01:49.61]For reasonable doubt, squeezing out that ill 'matic
[01:52.24]We ready to die, the nights was real
[01:54.80]Fam learned how to kill a man in Cypress Hill
[01:57.48]Back the **** up, my gun a new Beretta
[02:00.34]Put us on a hard job, no one could do it better
[02:03.14]The pawn spoke, born broke, lived in pain
[02:05.57]No favors, coke saved us, long live the 'caine!
[02:08.59]Soon as I blew, knew nothing would limit me
[02:11.20]Be that mighty g from '93 til infinity
[02:14.07]Dead serious, with women, we was foul
[02:16.58]Had her smoking chronic to hit her doggystyle
[02:19.33]As far as respect, we failed as teams
[02:21.87]Was colder, now we older it's all hail the queens
[02:24.68]Hated we tainted that innocent girl
[02:26.90]Rudest ***** from most beautifullest thing in the world
[02:29.82]Vented the rage like we was battin' in cages
[02:32.59]Slow grind, now it's showtime, enter the stage
[02:35.70]We lusting yo, bum rush the show
[02:38.24]Legal drug money, got much to throw
[02:40.83]If I ain't mention this, we was infamous
[02:43.78]Now I seek to school, speak jewels in his sentences
[02:46.47]By margin dodging surprise of the beast
[02:48.92]Connects with the west, but son rise in the east
[02:51.84]I hold a four cause I know the score
[02:54.23]America's most wanted, my code is raw
[02:56.97]In full gear is your best protection
[02:59.56]Against the llama's, this ain't no promise or resurrection
[03:02.44]Write out the diary this war report
[03:05.19]Got supreme clientele, I give 'em more to snort
[03:07.62]Stay obedient, never get numbers this large
[03:10.37]Thought main ingredient was be the youngest in charge
[03:12.97]My strong plea all eyez on me, this is precious
[03:16.19]'Fore things fall apart, I pray your heart get the message
[03:19.88]I was donned with baggage
[03:22.30]All these psalms calmed my savage
[03:24.96]How I live was often hectic
[03:27.68]All this is off the record
[03:30.43]I was donned with baggage
[03:33.11]All these psalms calmed my savage
[03:35.63]How I live was often hectic
[03:38.44]All this is off the record
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