intro:word i miss you,i the god word....a powerful brother,man, he was Raekwon:he was a powerfull general,the smell from his was ballantine this it was the year 89' He stayed the freshest, boots, wallies with them colorful low goose coming Medina, we boost we up in A&S, slipping and dipping to Native, he used to beatbox, thousands'll yo, before, the wu got on, him and allah just' and RZA, came to the one morn' A nigga could to slow music, outdrink any nigga on the benches, while we hitting reefer, he loosies five foot seven a legend was born, Russel "ason" I for his braids and lessons a with knowledge 120, kept a flag on his chest a right hand, you quick, serving you Yo, lets toadt to the fallen, forgotten aiyo, if niggas hear me, then roll up some broccoli ason, the of a lion, a purified mind the way he did it, with a mic and some i would never the days we used to sit back i be all up in the crib, listening, holding, align him and yo i just miss this nigga and now i understand the of love when i kissed the nigga dirty bastard (sample) My name is ol bastard, youknowhatimsayin? i dont hide nothing back, i barely, i mean, i come from a family,man of welfare, youknowhatimsaying? i came out my mother womb i was on welfare,youknowhatimsaying so so so its like you got to keep it real
He had a heart of gold, intelligent soul day one Loud as the ferry, best friend was Cherry lady, BK baby, she taught Dirty How to cook, clean, the songs, say the Old dances and O.E., Ballantine, the wine We sip, while we sat the O.G.'s Knowledge of self, good The fortunes came with the game, had my brother insane It's like wealth enough to live for But if you got love in your heart, just in yourself That was the black man rap, baby Jesus in the Land' Few pieces with his gold fangs, his fam (Brooklyn Zu) you my brother was ill The dude to say, "Yo, keep it real" Yeah, the lover, the father, the hustler, the rap Now he with Allah, a blessing
[Interlude: ~Ol' Dirty Bastard See, it's like, ok, I come from In my neighborhood, my people me See, if I try to come any different They gon' respect me no more Youknowhatimsaying? Because -- you know people Got their thing about themselves, you If you from the neighborhood, youknowhatimsaying You couldn't, you couldn't get out the But you could take the neighborhood out of the people Youknowhatimsaying, but if you try to jump and crossover To the other side, people understand that, and they don't that That's why they don't be buying music See, we it real, and we always gon' keep it real You can't knock what's real, We telling the truth, man