Uh, you know I still run with that, blood of a slave in my veins It's hot until a nigga can't take it no more of a slave, heart of a king Turn my up
Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I crawled up out of that grave, wiping the dirt, my shirt They I'll make another "illmatic" But it's always I'm moving
Never backwards here's another classic is falling from the sky By now the credits roll starring nas poet, produced, directed by The kid escobar
Narration the lives and laws tribes in the ghetto trying to survive The opens with this young black child Finger scratch, cigarette burns on the sofa, turning the tv jane girls, 45's playing, soft in the background
Food from mornings was hash browns Stepped over 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, hungriest
People jumping from roofs, shotguns made it through my youth Walking very thin lines, ages seven and That's the age I was on my album cover, this is the I know the thirst water like Moses
Walking through the hot desert searching to be This is my end and my new beginning Out for the in a mega places, it's like a in the matrix I seen it at all, did it all, most of why'all pop for a minute
Spitters, sinners and the get rid of y'all Y'all got there but didn't get it all, I want my style back to cease y'all plan it's the rap reaper man To them double up hustlers, bidders, who real
Professionals, up childs dreaming for meals Let my words you, get inside you From crypts to pirals this is
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