Baby, bring ashtray in here And my mail, it's on top of the counter baby Thanks, this? I don't know some came for you today Fiscal, professional, what's this man? Anyway, the food be ready in 20 minutes
Peace Allah, hope scribe reach ya hands in good health As for self, no sense of worryin' my cards been in a cell, fishscale, fifth year of my bid Finally got a recent to connect with my kids
kinda hard due to carelessness, I scarred they moms And temporary, I was barred voluntary the Nevertheless, it's I need to address to certain statements that made me confess
Faced with life, it bites when hit And wit crime come a lot of technicality Too many co-defendants conspiracies Like the court system designed to the mind from thinkin'
Fog ya vision, guess it's just the of livin' But like me, most great men God in prison Illmatic, first heard ya bars of life I was up in Cansaki, niggas started to
You souls to a lost population of men And no doubt, if ever out, they'll lock me again Faced wit 10 on state time, wit life on the It's fucked up your own folks ain't writin' you back
Learn to relax, spoke wit cats that helped adapt You know the streets to the pen, it's kinda hard to All the cars and the pretty women, The clothes and the city
I seen division, breakdown of the either submit, death or incarceration, I felt the combination Torn between reality rap and the Some do it for the cap few relate
And been what I through at least in fraction So when they spit you could the passion, I see you maxin' That Nas and that jigga Riff started some It departed the prison system we argue a bit
It's a of what's to come The past follow, hold the voice just hunger me holdin' my last I live that of a star without the title, I had to write you beyond tryin' to enlight you
It's a token of for bein' that poet with no abbreviations Much respect from us all you much success Get yours, money nigga, fuck the rest, I'm signin' off And in the way that I greet and say peace Keep in always rep the streets, you that nigga
Word, write homey back Ayo, boo I got any more of that mail out Got a few You gotta read this one, the right here is deep, man Aiight, gimme a Okay, what's one right here? Oh shortie from Nashville, alright lemme see
AZ, this is Camille Sugarhill been a fan And since then to me you a man A real card rarely reveals his hand And sincerely, I say the hood feel ya jam
I sit and listen to your latest Washin' in the kitchen Or twistin' the baby on little Christian It's so sickenin', his father, we miss him He was killed in a '99 car
I guess the best ones God get them, It's just the way it is in bizarre system You remind me of his one concernin' words you speak You and him both got that funny type of in y'all speech
At night it's like his just emerge in my sleep I smoke so that grief can stop disturbin' my peace My deep, it coincide with the way that you rap I hate it when commentators say that you back
You never left you was years ahead of the rest My baby-father even felt style, he say you was best How you dress, how you when you in the public? Without a lot of luggage gotta love it how you thug it
Know that, right, it's big boy, okay, okay