| I was… like I pay homage to the old school
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| You know due credit to all the niggaz out there before me
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| Like… youknowwhatI’msayin'? |
| That paved the way
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| To hold this microphone I’m holdin' right now
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| We like young veterans… knowwhatI’msayin'?
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| So it’s like, we came, we come in the game around the Biggies
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| And the fuckin' Jay-Z's and the 2Pac's and shit… youknowI’msayin'?
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| It all started with Preme
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| Back in '91, fresh on the scene
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| Mad Mob was the team of our Red dream
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| We used to gun sling to get CREAM off of crack fiends
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| In the hallway, rollin' weed, the sunflower seeds
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| Thirteen when I lost my moms
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| Fourteen I got locked with Twin, we when to Spafford then
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| Fifteen they took one of my men, Big Glen
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| In the building, back then my pain began
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| Traybag had the fame of the pen, he must of seen I could win
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| I used to breakdance, the mad little spins
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| So he taught me and Sunny to write
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| Up in my lab late nights, rollin' dice, him, Supreme and Mike
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| We was live and direct to Da Last Future
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| For my first rhyme, and now 4th my producer
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| Had a style that my projects wasn’t used to
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| Started hangin' with them drug dealers and them boosters
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| Up in John J rappin' in the school hallway
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| I got mad ass, even ask Foxy and Gav
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| Had the hood on smash then I linked with Bazz
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| We used to build and front, dazz' about fuckin' with Wu
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| Me and 7th did «Livin' In Hell»
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| Pressed up it independent, not knowin' if a record’d would sell
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| Rae and Ghost made «Heaven & Hell», while we was hearin' it
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| Meanwhile we thinkin' it was all coincidence
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| «Mental Combat», the b-side, the style: battle rap
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| I was rated X, next heard 'Meth vs. Chef'
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| Not to notice we was snake bitten
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| Sunz of Man did this track with the RZA «As It Was Written»
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| And then Nas came out with «It Was Written»
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| Same time «Verbal Intercourse» started hittin'
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| Basically I see it like… you know?
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| Like when we reflect light… youknowI’msayin'?
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| I expected to shine… youknowI’msayin'?
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| So, what it is is like a reflection of what we did, knowI’msayin'?
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| So like those was like little seeds of shit that we did
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| We planted and they didn’t even know that we was plantin'
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| You know this beautful harvest…
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| I see it, me and Preme back, young enough
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| I see it…
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| It all began at the age of sixteen
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| Me and my brothers Rah and Sha had a million dollar scheme
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| Runnin' with Kline at the time, we was gettin' that CREAM
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| Goin' hard under the buildings with Black and Supreme
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| When the scheme failed a teen went to jail, Rah got murdered
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| I was facin' three to nine when the jury read the verdict
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| On trial for a hundred and forty-four crack vials
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| Suited up in court, wiz pregnant with my first child
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| Beat the case, felt rap and started pursuin' my dream
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| I was the nicest in the hood, journey brought me the CREAM
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| The first song I recorded was «Make it or Die Trying»
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| In '91, way before «Get Rich or Die Trying»
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| We formed the Mad Mob, I filmed «Party With a Tec»
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| In all my videos I always rocked a bulletproof vest
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| Of course my Pops, Uncle Mookie got shot in the dead
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| And Kline Sr. and Supreme just got locked in the feds
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| The late eighties was Hades hip-hop, save a nigga
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| Got discovered by the RZA, debuted with Gravediggaz
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| Platinum out the gate for my first verse on «Diary»
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| Number one on Hot 9 for three weeks, the world admired me
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| Toured the Holy West with the Clan, was well respected
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| Me and Priest got a demo deal with Atlantic Records
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| We both had a plan to introduce the fam
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| We featured Prodigal and Razah, the birth of the Sunz of Man
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| Rae and Ghost gave my style to the enemy
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| I left the situation, signed a contract with Penalty
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| After «Crime Saga» and «Death be the Penalty»
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| I left the label, released «Street Parables» independently
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| Was crowned the underground king of Europe for my show
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| Big Pun told me «Crime Saga» inspired his flow
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| In '96 I told Big Lez I’m God Son on RapCity
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| In '98, Nas tatted the shit across his belly
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| They knew what they was doin', like…
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| We wanted to be different, that’s what made us who we was
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| KnowwhatI’msayin'? |
| We didn’t wanna do the shit that the program said to do
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| KnowI’msayin'? |
| So we went against the system
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| Everybody went with the system
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| That’s what brought Sunz of Man together as a group
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| Every last individual spit some intellectual street shit
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| Some deep true poetic project crazy shit
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| «Since a seed» «I have a dream»
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| «The battles, the tears» «It's in the streets»
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| «Since a seed» «I have a dream»
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| «The battles, the tears, licenses and promises» |