[00:00.00]The Red Carpet(feat. Raekwon & Ras Kass) - Evidence
[00:40.33]I set it off in the sunny distance  no days existed
[00:43.59]My patience led the way until the greatest love listened to me
[00:46.83]I used to play the witness  wait in the trenches
[00:49.42]It's like the 6th man  sits on different benches
[00:52.81]It's hard squeezing life in a sentence
[00:55.48]And if I do  roll carpet with the red tint
[00:58.59]My entrance is what's between
[01:00.51]When I exit  it's Evidence left on the scene
[01:03.43]Alchemist cut the record down to the bone
[01:06.30]And with a record like this I take the world by storm
[01:10.04]Sky blessed  the land of the brave
[01:12.08]Understand where I stand  my hand is made
[01:14.79]From BR Double-O KLYN  the planet
[01:17.79]Family landed  managed to raise the man that I became
[01:21.38]Panic on my first campaign
[01:23.02]But when the words fell to place  I was certain to reign
[01:26.12]I hit the purple  then step in the circle and start flexin'
[01:29.38]Weatherman invented  now storms change directions
[01:32.13]Portions of my proceeds is feeding my homies now
[01:35.29]I always shared pretty good for an only child
[01:38.18]I was the baby boy  I could do no wrong
[01:41.12]Now the role's reversed  I'm putting people on
[01:44.12]They on welfare  you got healthcare
[01:46.63]They used to have their priorities elsewhere
[01:49.69]I took rims and tires and traded them
[01:52.00]For a ticket to an island  that's where
[01:54.23]I wrote this rhyming
[01:55.16]Where I first saw my vision
[01:57.57]Driven by a better living  a place to raise kids in
[02:00.92]So I think like I rule the world
[02:03.17]On the brink of something bigger  building schools
[02:05.86]For boys and girls
[02:06.81]The thought of home gets me out of my bed
[02:09.02]I said you got the tools
[02:10.26]Get them shits up out of the shed  C'mon
[02:23.34]I'm like the indispit of rhyming
[02:25.08]The Jack Dempsey emcee
[02:26.66]All my sh*t customed out
[02:28.25]( ) eventually
[02:29.54]Money is made  fly blades
[02:31.34]A woman with brains  will help a black ni**a reign
[02:34.11]My lifestyle's a prowler
[02:35.48]A rich loaner  owner
[02:37.26]Used to pump at coffees shops
[02:38.89]Had my b**ch who sell with me rolling up
[02:40.97]Fly a** and still classy
[02:42.73]Asking questions like "Why you wait on that glass
[02:45.59]Why would you splash me  "
[02:46.97]Yo  it's only ni**a sh*t
[02:48.67]I'm a teach you like how I was taught too
[02:50.95]Hold the phone  Ward 2
[02:52.34]Seeing all kinds of grey fossils
[02:54.16]Colossal juice  pick the house  act fly
[02:57.18]I got you  No need to walk backwards
[02:59.69]F**k with the taxes
[03:00.59]I speak credibility  the story to masses
[03:03.76]Yo  a diplomatic winner  Nik boots
[03:06.47]A scully good denim jean on and one rental
[03:20.60]They say you only live once  I disagree
[03:22.84]You only live twice: your life enable your seed
[03:26.24]So I lead on whacks and feed em the deeds
[03:28.98]So when I die they got a foundation on my publishing B
[03:31.99]Plus the words that I speak  here's my family jewels
[03:34.60]It ain't all blood diamonds  but like experienced fools
[03:37.73]And I be rhyming cool  but my philosophy's deep
[03:40.41]Like a Dear John letter  so read em and weep
[03:43.30]And the wolf smells blood: you can feed em to me
[03:46.13]But I'm a Lycan underworld  you can meet in the street
[03:49.41]Draw heat  but what happened to peace
[03:51.93]He got a Dirty Sanchez  like what happened to Screech
[03:54.89]Jesus  diarrhea's - I mean holy sh*t
[03:57.64]Christ on a cracker  that's just how we spit
[04:00.55]Communion: had the wine  make the sign of the cross
[04:03.51]And I will live in the past  chalk it up as a loss
[04:06.26]Went from "please listen to my demo  "
[04:08.32]To stretch limo
[04:09.31]To the penn in a cell watching Eminem on Jimmy Kimmel
[04:12.17]But I can't go out like Timbo slice
[04:14.40]Like Geena Korrano  a cyborg determinate
[04:17.42]Mano a mano  still Ronald McDonald
[04:19.75]Over one billion served
[04:21.38]But it's up to me to get what I deserve
[04:23.57]So I handle my biz and hustle harder than the norm
[04:26.30]The early bird gets the worm  but the hawk gets the bird