[00:00.24]Yeah this next joint right here
[00:05.82]Is dedicated to all my n***as that I love
[00:08.37]All the n***as that held it down with me through the whole s**t
[00:10.83]From the beginning of the fort to the now current day of the fort
[00:14.88]From the beginning and the birth of this whole s**t
[00:16.50]To the now success of this whole s**t
[00:19.62]And all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples
[00:22.59]Ridin with them through thick and thin love y'all n***as
[00:34.92]Peep it
[00:40.89]1 2
[00:52.80]Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my n***as
[01:01.65]1 2
[01:06.12]All the things I do you know
[01:13.92]I will hold my flags for you my n***as
[01:17.04]Now this how the s**t all started
[01:19.17]Was like doctors of I was being conceived kinda retarded
[01:22.44]Like and while my moms was conceiving this beautiful baby
[01:25.86]Doctors was the this woman's stress out of this jamaican lady
[01:29.43]Pops beef and straight carrying on
[01:31.41]Nobody realizing how the god was now being born
[01:34.53]Ayo yo 1 2
[01:36.00]While they was wildin and s**t
[01:37.62]They couldn't even find my pulse sonogram on the frisk
[01:40.77]So they tried a natural birth but had to stop production
[01:44.43]Baby stuck all up in the womb another malfunction
[01:47.43]1 2
[01:48.33]And now the doctors discover
[01:49.95]They had to cut this lady's gut and c section me out of my mother
[01:53.97]Pop duke could only sit and ask why
[01:56.19]Looked up in the sky and begged for mercy from the most high
[01:59.07]C'mon now 1 2
[02:00.69]See now the day would feel blessed
[02:02.22]Watching the birth of a precious baby life manifest
[02:05.40]See how that bugged me out
[02:06.57]That s**t that type s**t be buggin me out cuz
[02:09.90]Y'know n***as n***a look back
[02:12.90]To them days when you know s**t is kinda ill like y'knawmean
[02:16.86]N***a n***as like fall out y'knawmean
[02:21.90]Motherf**kers is n***as live long enough to look back and s**t and
[02:28.08]Laugh and s**t y'knawmean
[02:30.81]Young and learnin s**t that started is thick
[02:32.97]Started inquiring alot started using my d**k
[02:36.18]Like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin and s**t
[02:39.24]Buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and s**t
[02:42.21]Now hold up a young n***a now a couple years pass
[02:45.39]Searchin desperate to experience my first piece of a*s
[02:48.51]Now gettin into mischief and caught my first arrest
[02:51.93]Started smoking w**d and started totin on them cigarettes
[02:55.05]Eyes bloodshot like I was starin at a highbeam
[02:58.41]N***a only twelve so why he lookin like he nineteen
[03:01.26]1 2
[03:02.10]The fast life baby young with an old soul
[03:04.98]From the past life baby
[03:06.87]A young n***a wanted things and wanted money quick
[03:09.87]Ambitious on the amtrak wit a quarter brick
[03:12.84]My n***a 1 2
[03:14.40]It got hot in the streets
[03:16.08]My n***a campaign the cops who started walkin the beat my n***a
[03:19.98]Trouble causin too much problems just me and my brother
[03:22.62]Made mommy a grandma and shacked up with my babymother
[03:25.92]Now it a seed I was always ready to clap s**t
[03:28.71]Strugglin so then I start f**kin 'round with this rap s**t
[03:32.34]Moved to long island and got up with a few n***as
[03:35.01]Believin we could show the world we was the leaders of the new n***as
[03:38.43]A crew of n***as that was hot like an infirmary
[03:41.31]Blazin 'til they started actin like b***hes internally
[03:44.16]So now flipmode is how we own it fo' sho
[03:46.98]Tried to f**k with n***as but I couldn't do it no more
[03:49.92]Fo rilla 1 2
[03:51.30]And then I got with some n***as
[03:52.95]Always wit it to multiply the gross and double the figgas
[03:56.01]And then I hit with bombs and hold a stack in my palms
[03:59.22]Whippin bentleys floss icy s**t and take care of moms
[04:02.31]Give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur
[04:05.37]Hold it down for all my n***as 'til the movement is over
[04:08.31]It's kinda beautiful
[04:11.58]Yeah y'knawmean
[04:12.57]How we have acquired so much
[04:17.49]Where we can look back and and actually laugh and lavish
[04:21.95]In the in the in the moment
[04:24.90]As we prime in life
[04:27.06]Look at how we we struggled all this way and went through the bulls**t
[04:32.07]Motherf**kin little obstacles
[04:34.95]Situations they try to set up for n***as to f**kin fall off
[04:39.21]And lose they hard earned s**t y'knowmean
[04:42.90]I holds it down for my n***as though
[04:46.50]Give my last to my n***as
[04:48.66]All the n***as that was wit me through the whole s**t
[04:51.45]Love y'all n***as word
[04:53.19]My flipmode n***as man