[00:01.96](phone rings)
[00:05.21]Lady: Ragtop records
[00:05.98]may I help you?
[00:06.86]Fly: Can I speak to Fo?
[00:07.73]Lady: I moment please
[00:08.61]he's around.
[00:09.60]4 Tay: Yo wassup?
[00:10.78]Fly: Wassup Fo?
[00:11.71]Man I know you finished that cut for the radio.
[00:13.64]4 Tay: As a matter of fact Fly
[00:15.01]I just finished it baby boy
[00:16.44]don't worry about nothin
[00:17.49]I'll be around.
[00:18.68]Regardless if I'm chillin backstage
[00:19.85]or on tour
[00:20.60]With my homie Young Fly
[00:21.77]even Al B. Sure
[00:22.89]Never hesitate to call me
[00:24.30]after I'm done
[00:25.15]Cause homie I'm real
[00:26.19]and I'm always true to my loved ones
[00:27.45]Too many wakes
[00:28.31]and funerals full of tears
[00:29.62]You say there's something on your mind
[00:30.91]well here I'm all ears
[00:31.79]Cause nobody thinking about
[00:33.00]the funk that you're choosin it
[00:34.19]A lot of my homies
[00:35.06]stuck in the pen for life
[00:35.98]for losin it
[00:36.52]Call up your folks
[00:37.24]you keep thinkin about home
[00:38.49]Recorder keeps repeating
[00:39.54]and there's a block on the phone
[00:40.66]And all of this is enough
[00:41.85]to make a brother's nerves bad
[00:43.28]Reminds me of a sitution
[00:44.33]that I once had
[00:45.26]Spent that
[00:45.96]spent this
[00:46.45]endless relentless
[00:47.46]tremendous women on my jock
[00:49.09]And don't nobody mindin business
[00:50.52]He say she say
[00:51.55]throwin salt about it
[00:52.60]And choose to talk about you
[00:53.70]cause there's nothing else to talk about
[00:55.03]Talk about the show
[00:55.84]and the flow and all the clout
[00:57.01]Then be real with yourself
[00:58.13]and talk about and turned it out
[00:59.19]It's not hard to compete
[01:00.20]when his name is poppin
[01:01.37]A scared man can never win
[01:02.68]that's why I stay clockin
[01:03.74]Fools be huffin and puffin
[01:05.02]don't wanna see me about nothin
[01:06.16]I'm down
[01:06.63]And if you ever need me Fly
[01:07.75]I'll be around
[01:09.28]Whenever you call me
[01:11.39]I'll be there
[01:13.13]Whenever you want me
[01:14.55](Cause I'll be around)
[01:16.03]I'll be there
[01:16.46](you know I love you boy)
[01:18.38]Whenever you need me
[01:20.68]I'll be there
[01:22.67]I'll be around
[01:27.81]Life ain't based on
[01:28.89]peaches and cream
[01:29.95]This new generation
[01:31.00]lost a whole lot of dreams
[01:32.19]Future doctors,
[01:33.17]producers and mothers
[01:34.36]The list goes on
[01:35.47]but now we killin our brothers
[01:36.59]And if we killin our brothers
[01:37.71]that means we're killin our own kind
[01:38.83]These kids is watchin
[01:39.95]now it goes to their mind
[01:41.13]Rat tat a tat
[01:42.24]cause you got a gat
[01:43.29]Then they want a gat
[01:44.35]you livin like that?
[01:45.53]Moms ain't cookin
[01:46.77]she worked the week straight
[01:48.01]If anything
[01:48.63]she's the one that deserves
[01:49.53]a hot plate
[01:50.33]The ghetto
[01:50.77]the ghetto ain't nothin to dream about
[01:52.33]Tryin to get out
[01:53.39]now that's somethin to think about
[01:54.50]Fools might disagree
[01:55.62]but I'm a stay sucka free
[01:56.92]Now I'm so black
[01:57.86]and so strong
[01:58.42]they can't fade me
[01:59.29]Blacks are blacks worst enemy
[02:00.74]there's still no remedy
[02:01.80]You got me for a grip
[02:03.04]do you call yourself kin of me?
[02:04.22]Jealousy
[02:04.81]envy
[02:05.38]I see it in your eyes
[02:06.37]Tell me what's wrong
[02:07.40]with seeing a black man rise
[02:08.43]I keep it funky
[02:09.23]it's pretty hard to miss it
[02:10.25]now is it explicit
[02:11.11]A message for the mind
[02:12.57]and the moral of statistics
[02:13.68]So I'm doin what we call a roll call
[02:15.49]Talkin about the ones
[02:16.36]who want rap then take a downfall
[02:17.62]I spit the street life
[02:18.73]and then I go underground
[02:19.79]You silly
[02:20.45]it's called versatility
[02:21.51]and I'll be around
[02:23.33]Whenever you call me
[02:25.25]I'll be there
[02:26.82](Yeah all you bustas)
[02:27.94]Whenever you want me
[02:29.50](yeah I was down)
[02:30.33]I'll be there
[02:30.67](but I'll be around)
[02:31.77]Whenever you need me
[02:34.13]I'll be there
[02:36.28]I'll be around
[02:41.13]Things are gettin crucial
[02:42.19]you gotta exercise your mind
[02:44.29]Or learn about life
[02:45.41]before you're left behind
[02:46.59]But how you gonna get it right
[02:47.97]when you're not doin right
[02:49.03]When you get mad
[02:50.01]all you want is a gunfight
[02:51.20]This tension causes
[02:52.25]a gang of madness
[02:53.38]Now you want funk
[02:54.68]that results to sadness
[02:55.61]Sadness results
[02:56.75]to a lot of revenge
[02:57.69]And you're so called friends
[02:58.81]really ain't you're friends
[02:59.90]So how do you know
[03:01.01]who you're able to trust
[03:02.20]If you think about the past
[03:03.31]look what happened to us
[03:04.37]I never trust no one
[03:05.49]I only trust myself
[03:06.55]Or I would've been a victim
[03:07.78]like everyone else
[03:08.84]In friendship or hardship
[03:10.02]whenever you need me
[03:11.08]Just give me a call G
[03:12.28]I won't deceive thee
[03:13.39]These fools be shakin
[03:14.46]best believe they're fakin
[03:15.64]Just tryin to get a grip
[03:16.82]of all the money you're makin
[03:17.94]This ain't race
[03:18.57]a mind is a terrible thing to waste
[03:20.50]I drop the rap
[03:21.37]and J drops the bass
[03:22.42]To the flow
[03:22.94]cause ain't nobody get with Fo
[03:24.53]I'm a down young brother
[03:25.65]comin straight outta Frisco
[03:26.83]Droppin a message
[03:27.88]out of love to your town
[03:29.12]Love your brothers and sisters
[03:30.55]and I'll be around
[03:30.70]Whenever you call me
[03:32.31]I'll be there
[03:34.86]Whenever you want me
[03:36.85]I'll be there
[03:39.02]Whenever you need me
[03:41.26]I'll be there
[03:43.61]I'll be around