Uh, you know I still run with that, blood of a slave Boiling in my It's just hot until a nigga take it no more Blood of a slave, heart of a my voice up
Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I crawled up out of grave, wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt They thought I'll make "illmatic" But it's forward I'm moving
Never backwards stupid here's another is falling from the sky By now the credits roll nas executive poet, produced, directed by The kid slash
Narration describes the and laws tribes in the ghetto trying to survive The feature opens 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 see-town's mornings was 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 pumping made it my youth Walking very thin lines, seven and nine the age I was on my album cover, this is the rebirth I know the thirst water like Moses
through the hot desert searching to be free This is my end and my new nostalgia 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 Y'all got there but y'all didn't get it all, I my style back Hate to cease y'all it's the rap reaper man To them double up hustlers, bidders, niggaz who
Professionals, stick up dreaming for meals Let my guide you, get inside you From crypts to pirals is survival
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