| Ayo, I never claimed to be hard, tough, no homo, gangsta none of the above | 
| Just a kid from 145th and Lennox Ave | 
| Harlem, USA trying to make his way in the world ya heard? | 
| Ya know through the trial of tribulations that life brings | 
| I lost some friends, incarcerated, some are gone forever | 
| Ya know you cant expect everything from everybody | 
| So get up get out and get somethin, thats what I did | 
| Before I had the hammer cocked | 
| A Santana rock | 
| Little Gerv, Grandpa Jerry, Grandma Doc (thats my fam) | 
| Uncle Carl, Uncle Ted, Uncle Steve, Uncle Bill, | 
| Cousin Steve, Cousin Bill up on the hill now | 
| My Aunt Normy, I don’t speak to my Aunt Deita | 
| Or my Cousin Bashiba, love my Mother Fredricka | 
| Neighbour Freida, daughter Raven and Nika | 
| Down another doorbell was that nigga Warden Nell | 
| He gave birth to the best emcee you never heard | 
| Lever after lever and was clever with whatever word | 
| Derek Armstead, Bloodshed from C.O.C | 
| He did damage, road managed my G.O.D | 
| Aka Duke Da God, he was stupid hard | 
| 16, the bitch dream had stupid cars | 
| Cut the '68, hooptie '75 | 
| Still drives some bullshit, I don’t know why | 
| I loved the nigga though, for him put cris in the air | 
| First one that diss him in here, I swear I’ll risk my career | 
| Thats a fact they ain’t talking no rap shit | 
| I’m talking that mack clip, niggas will backflip, act sick | 
| My dude study the sabbath | 
| No beef, veggie nigga, maybe some catfish | 
| He could have my house, he could keep my mauries | 
| He could drive my cars, this a eastside story | 
| (Thats why my dudes love me I let them do them. | 
| You either gonna be rich or famous fuckin wit me, probably both. | 
| If you happen to brush shoulders wit me by accident, | 
| play lotto, nine out of ten times you gonna win nigga.) | 
| To play the game, sure to win | 
| I sacrificed, I rolled the dice | 
| I love the hood, I love my life | 
| See a boss I prepared to be | 
| When I walk away from a confrontation I ain’t scared of you I’m scared of me | 
| I got a gun, you don’t so it flares you’ll see | 
| After that a 5,000 volt chair for me | 
| So I move carefully, niggas don’t care for me | 
| Who care I don’t, you share I wont | 
| Calm down (uhuh) breathe again | 
| I don’t do extortion unless I wanna recieve an end | 
| Talk to my money, first time I heard her speak (what she say) | 
| Thats word to me, told me I deserve to eat (what happened) | 
| Moved to a killa ave, right from a murder street (what you did) | 
| Rocked adida forms even though they hurt my feet (thats fucked up) | 
| I don’t look in the sky, never mind stars | 
| You also find stars, right behind bars | 
| Snazz, Black, Do' on house arrest | 
| Zeke, shiek, wont even throw out the rest | 
| They wanted my ass right alongside zeke | 
| Turn myself in, nope play hide and go seek | 
| I’m gone, put the clip in the chrome | 
| Yeah I’m just like a fly, see the shit that I’m on | 
| And, hour after hour I would chill at the afterhours | 
| Where they flash the power, no bath or shower | 
| In that same spot, realize math is power | 
| So I pointed the mansion, that is ours |