Uh, you know I still run with that, blood of a slave in my veins It's just hot a nigga can't take it no more Blood of a slave, of a king my voice up
Ayo, the is "stillmatic" I crawled up out of grave, wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt They thought I'll make "illmatic" But it's forward I'm moving
Never backwards here's another classic is falling from the sky By now the credits starring nas executive poet, produced, directed by The kid slash
Narration describes the lives and laws tribes in the ghetto to survive The feature opens with young black child Finger scratch, cigarette burns on the sofa, turning the tv Mary jane girls, 45's playing, soft in the
from see-town's mornings was hash browns Stepped dope fiends, walking out the door, all of us paw I learned the difference between the snitches, the ones, and who's soft And the murderous, crews
People jumping from roofs, shotguns pumping it through my youth Walking very thin lines, seven and nine That's the age I was on my cover, this is the rebirth I the streets thirst water like Moses
Walking through the hot desert searching to be This is my end and my new nostalgia Out for the in a places, it's like a glitch in the matrix I seen it at all, did it all, of why'all been pop for a minute
Spitters, and the game get rid of y'all Y'all got but y'all didn't get it all, I want my style back to cease y'all plan it's the rap reaper man To them up hustlers, bidders, niggaz who real
Professionals, up childs dreaming for meals Let my guide you, get inside you From crypts to this is survival
Blood of a slave, of a king Blood of a slave, of a king Uh, uh blood of a slave, of a king Uh, yea Huh,