[00:21.24]Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
[00:25.82]I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
[00:31.74]I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
[00:36.12]I will never ever let you live this down, down, down
[00:41.86]
[00:42.76]Not for nothing I've forseen it, I dream it
[00:47.51]I can feel it slowly dripping away from me
[00:52.47]No more chances if you blow this, you bogus
[00:56.64]I will never ever let you live this down, down, down
[01:02.53]
[01:02.82]Penitentiary chances, the devil dances
[01:04.73]and eventually answers to the call of Autumn
[01:07.30]all of them fallin' for the love of ballin'
[01:09.70]got caught with 30 rocks, the cop look like Alec Baldwin
[01:12.34]inter century anthems based off inner city tantrums
[01:15.66]based off the way we was branded
[01:17.75]face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon
[01:20.21]and at the airport they check all through my bag and tell me that it's random
[01:23.33]but we stay winning, this week has been a bad massage
[01:26.87]I need a happy ending and a new beginning
[01:28.84]and a new fitted and some job opportunities thats lucrative
[01:33.59]
[01:33.96]this the real world, homie, school finished
[01:36.06]they done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it
[01:38.75]I treat the cash the way the government treats AIDS
[01:41.45]I won't be satisfied til all my n-ggas get it, get it?
[01:44.11]
[01:45.12]Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
[01:49.73]I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
[01:55.06]I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
[01:59.43]I will never ever let you live this down, down, down
[02:05.21]
[02:05.49]Is hip hop, just a euphemism for a new religion
[02:07.89]the soul music for the slaves that the youth is missing
[02:10.41]this is more than just my road to redemption
[02:12.83]Malcolm West had the whole nation standing at attention
[02:15.27]as long as I'm in Polo's they think they got me
[02:18.13]but they would try to crack me if they ever see a black me
[02:20.77]
[02:21.37]I thought I chose a field where they couldn't sack me
[02:24.12]if a n-gga aint running shootin a jump shot running a track meet
[02:26.26]but this pimp is, ar the top of mount Olympus
[02:28.66]ready for the World's game, this is my Olympics
[02:31.31]we make 'em say ho cause the game is so pimpish
[02:33.87]choke a southpark writer with a fishstick
[02:36.64]I insisted to get up offa this d-ck
[02:39.12]and these drugs, fans cant resist it
[02:41.66]remind me of when they tried to have Ali enlisted
[02:44.66]if I ever one of the greatest n-gga, I must have missed it!
[02:46.92]
[02:47.68]Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
[02:52.84]I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
[02:57.57]I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
[03:01.96]I will never ever let you live this down, down, down
[03:07.69]
[03:08.14]I need more drinks and less lights
[03:09.57]and that American Apparal girl in just tights
[03:11.96]she told the director she tryna get in a school
[03:14.37]he said "take them glasses off and get in the pool"
[03:17.22]it's been a while since I watched the tube
[03:19.20]cause like a crip said: "I got way too many blues for any more bad news"
[03:23.63]I was looking at my resume feeling real fresh today
[03:26.10]they rewrite history I don't believe in yesterday
[03:28.56]and what's a black beetle anyway, a f-cking roach
[03:32.39]I guess thats why they got me sitting in f-cking coach
[03:34.32]but God said I need a different approach
[03:36.64]cause people is looking at me like I'm sniffing coke
[03:38.85]it aint funny anymore try dipping jokes
[03:41.76]tell 'em hug and kiss my ass, x and o
[03:44.12]kiss the ring while they at it, do my thing while I'm got it
[03:46.85]play strings for the dramatic
[03:48.48]and end all of that wack sh-t
[03:50.08]act like I aint had a belt in two classes
[03:52.11]I aint got it I'm going after whoever who has it
[03:54.74]I'm coming after whoever who has it
[03:57.31]you blowing up, that's good, fantastic
[04:00.20]that y'all, its like that ya'll
[04:02.10]I don't really give a f-ck about it at all
[04:04.75]cause the same people that tried to black ball me
[04:07.34]forgot about 2 things, my black balls
[04:10.35]
[04:11.10]Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
[04:15.89]I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
[04:21.22]I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
[04:25.32]I will never ever let you live this down, down, down
[04:30.89]
[04:31.31]I know cops, hems is lifting lenses
[04:33.08]kid, Armani suits, fresh fruits, Bally boots and Benzes
[04:36.31]counting up, smoking, one cuff
[04:38.56]live as a red Jag, a Louis bag, grabbing a blunt, f-ck it
[04:41.36]steam about a hundred and one L's
[04:43.81]kites off the jails, buying sweats, running up in Stetson
[04:46.82]n-gga hat game was special
[04:48.70]it matched every black pair of Nikes
[04:51.10]throwing dice for decimals
[04:52.41]the older head, bolder head, would train a soldier head
[04:54.72]make sure he right in the field, not a soldier dead
[04:57.83]got made code red
[04:59.59]break up the black skunk
[05:00.97]the black dutch, back of the old shed
[05:02.85]if you can't live, you dying
[05:04.63]you give or buy in
[05:05.92]keep it real or keep it moving, keep grinding
[05:07.86]keep shining, to every young man, this is a plan
[05:10.79]learn from others like your brothers Rae and Kanye
[05:13.24]
[05:14.01]Not for nothing I've forseen it, I dream it
[05:18.08]I can feel it slowly dripping away from me
[05:23.81]no more chances if you blow this, you bogus
[05:28.29]I will never ever let you live this down, down, down