I spoke at my old high school and I told them kids straight up, if you guys are serious about making it out of this ghetto, you gotta focus, you gotta stop playing with white people for your problems, and you've gotta learn how to rap or play basketball or something, nigga, you're trapped. You are trapped. Either do that or sell *. That's your only option. That's the only way I've ever seen it work. You gotta get to entertaining these white people, nigga. Get to dancing!
I walked in the door, some niggas on my left playing Nintendo, somebody at the table rolling endo, the nigga in the blue rags my kinfo, he cracked a Venetian Blondes with the tip of his pistol, staring out the window, cause last night somebody stole the rims off his Benzo, not knowing this nigga is a schizo, mean muggin' as I approach, I know the type of time he been on, he said I got something for you, then he put a grin on, handed me a drum machine, got it off a dope fiend, dopamine hit, me thinkin' of makin' dope and mean hits.
I was only 14, he said I'm givin' you this * cause I want you to keep your nose clean, and anyway, these perks come with a job, I just gave cuz some rocks, it wasn't a prob, now go and rap, so you don't have to hustle and rob, I sat on the porch for an hour touchin' buttons and knobs, could this be my winnin' lottery ticket?
I was poverty stricken, tryin' to escape the life of flockin' and lickin' late at night, beats bangin', think my mama was trippin', she wasn't, she said do it son, you gotta be different, cause we live in a city full of bangers and crack cases.
I tied a 38 rounder.
I tied my ankle with fat laces, I was Neil, I fought in the rap matrix, just to put a smile on my family's black faces.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write, prayin' God walks with me on my days and nights, if he didn't give me talent, would've paid the price.
I was sittin' in that circle with a bottle of Hennessy, skippin' curfew, hold a blunt down, yo, here come his Gertrude, pushin' a sharpened cart, man, I can still smell a perfume, niggas I'm sittin' with won't even think twice to hurt you, the Mac in that backpack, I hurt you.
The back and forth for them capsules was like a crack commercial, I'm a math wiz, with rap talent in the midst of all this madness, how I keep that clean grade point average while bein' savage.
Ran D before I ran in a D, his geoprism was the vehicle to savin' my life, he went to prison, no, he probably wondered why I ain't right, or sneak a visit, no excuses, but my mind wasn't right.
But he'd forgive me once he touched down, we buckled back down, hit them studios, * who we know, we runnin' my town, lettin' music go work, spoke for herself, what I wrote opened up wealth.
Just six years before I was broke, hopin' I'd sell a couple bundles with the strap on my hip, before this * was called trappin', I was trapped in that *, back up a bit to that geoprism.
It would pull a punk in the horn, scoop me from the ground.
Many block I was on, you got a song with the words he would utter, and I replied, come on man, I'm nice as a mother, I owe this life to my brother, talent is just talent without the right support.
I saw the greatest hoopers die by the court, the sweetest karaoke voices holdin' mics up for sport, the greatest artist's last sketch bein' outlined in chalk.
I wrote this verse on a treadmill takin' a vibrant walk, just pushed it to incline since I dodged havin' to hike up north.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write.
Man, God walks with me on the road.
All my days and nights, if he didn't give me talent, would've paid the price.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write.
Man, God walks with me on my days and nights, if he didn't give me talent, would've paid the price.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write.
Rap music saved my life, got me feelin' more alive with every page I write.