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