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Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I up out of that grave, wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt They thought I'll make "illmatic" But it's always forward I'm
Never backwards stupid here's another See-notes is falling the sky By now the roll starring nas executive poet, produced, directed by The kid escobar
Narration describes the lives and laws tribes in the ghetto trying to The feature with this young black child Finger scratch, cigarette burns on the sofa, the tv down Mary jane girls, 45's playing, soft in the
Food from mornings was hash browns Stepped dope fiends, walking out the door, all of us paw I learned the between the snitches, the real ones, and who's soft And the murderous, crews
People jumping from roofs, pumping made it through my youth Walking very lines, ages seven and nine That's the age I was on my album cover, this is the I know the thirst water like Moses
through the hot desert searching to be free This is my end and my new beginning Out for the in a places, it's like a glitch in the matrix I seen it at all, did it all, most of been pop for a minute
Spitters, sinners and the game get rid of got there but y'all didn't get it all, I want my style back Hate to y'all plan it's the rap reaper man To them up hustlers, bidders, niggaz who real
Professionals, stick up childs for meals Let my guide you, get inside you From crypts to pirals is survival
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