You know you gotta go through hell to
come out right these days
And that's for everything
you're doing like
Just wanna explain how, how real it was
I made my debut in 93
Touched wax,
the first nigga you heard on that
ULP
Took the nation by storm
Walleys and robes,
Gar cia
Vega dongs
Stood behind the stove
And I sure wasn't cooking fries
It was that
Barry
White,
Nino
Brown quote that'll
change your lives
And then it came to a halt, end result
Had to learn that you could
never survive mixing beef with pork
So in 96 when my chain was thick
My body went through a change,
quick knock
The same kid lost 30 pounds rapidly
My neck got skinny, thought I had the
V
Cause
Tony went raw on plenty
Then I found that I was diabetic
But my conscience was telling me
Ghost baby boy not to sweat it
So I built my confidence,
back up, work out, eat right
Stay strong so I can continue
to eat these mics
The trials of life, ins and outs
Ups and downs, we all gonna die
It's harsh as it sounds,
that's why we live for the future
Plans to fix every moment,
just a little lesson for you to go home with
Why you standing there
with your bone lit?
You need to stop, put your mind on fo cus
This is
Green
Lantern and
P,
Pretty
Tone shit
Put loud, tell them young boys,
this is grown shit
Keep it on, keep it
Elevate your mind
Keep it on, keep it on,
keep it on
When I grew up, wanted to be
Michael
Jackson I even got the call
to be the tap dance kid
86, I was only 12, I had to turn it down
Cause that just wasn't my style
But my grandmother was proud
She built a school out in
Jamaica,
Queens
All by herself
And these was my activities as a child
I grew up on
Jamaica
Ave, runnin' around
Then I realized
Mike was fruity,
I was in the cuties with the pussy
I snapped out of that shit quickly,
turned to my teens
Started to realize the pain medicine felt good I was a lil' fiend,
you see, I was born with sickle cell disease
You know them pancake pills,
that's candy to me
Started doin' rap, shit came natural to me
All I had to do was write
down my life to the beat
The smiles of life, ins and outs, ups and downs, we all gonna die,
it's hard to tell, that's why we live for the future
Plans to fix everything,
just a little lesson for you to go home with
Why you standing there
with your phone lit?
You need to stop, put your mind on fo cus
This is
Greenland and
P, pretty tone shit, go loud,
tell them young boys this is grow shit
I it coming, now
I can feel
on, keep on
Keep
Elevate your mind
They will never walk away
Keep on, keep on
Keep keep on