| I’m like five years old moving around to six
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| Every Sunday morning Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
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| Tiger came alive, day before, I’m riding high
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| Watching X-Men at eleven it’s on channel five
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| Couple hours later in church singing songs to God
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| Me and my cousin Hal in the back recite a lot of rhymes
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| Had a Walkman by Sony, bootlegging shit
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| Three dollars to the Africans on one twenty-fifth
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| Clue tapes best to big out that was the manuscript
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| The Lox Family, DMX vs. Cannabis
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| Recording over gospel tapes, I was a fan of it
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| Inside stuff from? |
| to Analysts
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| Black Power Ranger was black, so amazing
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| Yellow Power Ranger was hot, she was an Asian
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| Wait a minute, black and yellow, Wiz Khalifa shit?
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| Yellow, Asian, damn I can’t believe this shit
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| Used to steal my pop’s CDs and put ‘em back later
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| Found out about Biggie by 'em, baby baby!
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| Michael Jordan dunking on Ewing, then there was Pippen next
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| Hardaway, Mourning, man we never get respect
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| ‘Til Starks dunked on the Bulls, baseline crack
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| Bulls fans cried it was Horace, Jordan was in the back
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| Me? |
| I was a Sonic fan I loved Shawn Kemp
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| Gary Payton throwing alley-oops to the strong pimp
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| Seven kids, six mothers, drug user, alcoholic
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| Before school I watched Zack kiss every freak
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| On Saved By The Bell, Lisa Turtle duckin' Screech
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| Lark Voorhies was on fire, Never really liked Laura
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| Had a crush on Mira, would’ve banged out Topanga
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| Prolly got messy, dreamt of head from Kelly, would’ve gave pills to Jessie
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| Me and my cousin Vinny snuck and heard all The Chronic
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| Throwing fake guns in the air acting like Onyx
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| Found my pop’s porn on the shelf in his closet
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| Used to watch Janet Jacme scream loud getting popped in
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| Still a virgin, paper boy in baggy jeans
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| I had Parasucos with lines down the seams
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| Can’t we get along? |
| We singing simple songs
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| Timothy McVeigh vs. Flex, who got the bigger bombs?
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| Cell phones big as a forearm, ditched prom
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| Didn’t have a date, my ex blamed it on Islam
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| Street Fighter that was the shit, I used Ryu
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| Played Genesis all day, Streets of Rage 2
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| Martha Stewart was a good thing
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| Stealing potato chips from the stores was a hood thing
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| The Knicks in the middle of the Finals
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| Olajuwon spinning off Ewing for the title
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| We had a Gulf War, what the fuck for?
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| Kids in Somalia died ‘cause they starved
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| Dawg, my president ain’t black
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| But my man got head and he sure can play the sax
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| Then he got an office in Harlem next to blacks
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| Smoked weed but he didn’t inhale, how real is that?
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| White boys in trench coats aired out Columbine
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| Tossing old kicks in the air on top of power lines
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| Worked a McDonald’s job for a dollar sign
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| And got fired for McFlurrys I was tryna slide
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| Forrest Gump on the bench sitting awkwardly
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| Ready to Die was my artery
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| I remember writing lyrics down from Bone Thugs N Harmony
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| Recite it back to my friends so they’d be a part of me
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| Loved Diddy before the shiny shit
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| I’m a 80s baby and a 90s kid, dig? |