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The mantra of a monster how they’re describing this man
With no facts and no clues on how my stardom began
Now the loner, in the Bronx my squadron began
Bottom of the deck but still played a marvelous hand
Off of hard luck
Had a hard look and got the bars up
Walking into life chin high and kept the guard up
Gentrified the hood now celebs pull their cars up
For cappuccino the crossfire got a star bucked( Starbucks)
You can’t be serious fam
From the school of hard knocks in cafeterias and...
Beating fist for the kick eyes were curious and
So they circled around who this mysterious man?
Emerging from the shadows the deep pits the rotten apple
Decide your battles
Bars blamming from out the barrel
Battlefield bred in this arena called life
Now at the headquarters view it all counting the stripes

At the home plate, some call it the block where I hung out
A few scuffles knife stabs some pulled a gun out
Clinton cracked it down three strikes and many struck out
The Peoples parched looking like Jordan with his tongue out
Terrible times times ten had us tensed up
Rats roaming when the barbed wire fence went up
Fiber in the fabrics of a fraud yea they’re spotted
The nighttime breeze city lights were my narcotics
Nocturnal
Lethal what I jot in this journal
The drama that I’ve seen ain’t for tv
No daily time slots minimal views with no commercials
The street lights came on symbolized the curfew
This is daddy talking a piece of me is how I birthed you
Gassed up in the chest look how I burped you
The black oblivion
That live amongst the citizens
With the medicine to remedy your ignorance

Cold sweat bumpy hives on the skin is how they break out
Survey the space wall to wall the whole layout
In the trenches, many opted out and took the safe route
The king is here, time to bring the crown and cape out
In the aisles flower petals that paints a vivid scene
A red carpet, that stretches the length of a limousine
Get used to it, soon it becomes a familiar scene
The ground illuminates I walk on a scene from Billie Jean
The flows ridiculous
Charging your cells with this stimulus
This reign (rain) of power drenching them hard for their wickedness
Forgiving soul I’ll cover their head but in particular
I hand a cap (handicap) over to them they tried to cripple us
In the crux of my life the best ever
The freedom fighter that goes hard against the terror
A mean grind, like it’s cloves of fresh pepper
We struggle for it now years later it gets better