| Check it
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| As I grab my pad and pen and begin to talk from within
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| Oh God I’m hot as the water like a preacher who’s sinned
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| I’m only human but
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| The world has put me on a platform since the day I was born
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| To only wait for my downfall but like a brick wall im too hard to brake
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| OK I do make mistakes but I’m the realest from the fake
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| That’s why I’m the hardest to hate
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| Aaliyah baby girl I’ve learned to love those while ther still awake
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| Sleep Sleep
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| And prepare a place for those who are good in the projects and hood
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| Give to those who are misunderstood
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| I know like Lisa, Pac and Biggie and Jay and Pun are still No1
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| There will be more of us to come
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| I am a leader a teacher I gotta, like a single parent provider
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| Put in back those hip hop dividers
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| Like a preist with a back slider
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| I’ve sinned ut I win
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| And anyone we’ve lost in life from 9−11
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| We’ll be sure to see again
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| What you hear is not a test, I’m rocking to the beat
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| See me and my crew, and my friends were gonna try to move our feet
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| See I am Mary Blige and I’ll like to say hello
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| To the black to the white, the red and the brown, the purple and yellow
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| First you gotta
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| First you gotta |