First Edition

[Produced by Play Picasso & Frank Dukes]

[Hook]
(First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition)

[Verse 1]
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
Fuck all of these haters, still whipping inside the kitchen
Fuck all of these haters, they hating without permission
I'm the middle-man, the middle child, intermission
I intercept the plays and middle-man it to Baltimore
Fuck you waiting on Jordan's for? I'm still a carnivore
There's more regrets, more to stress over the press
More to forget, at the end of the night, more or less
Killing competition, they disappear like magician
I ain't spitting over a stupid beef that turned to repetition
All these bars I'm spitting, you'd think that I'd be imprisoned
Released my inhibition on paper, it's still unwritten
Fuck outta here, you a penitentiary cop
Fake gangstas don't act, 20th Century Fox
Permanently paint her in your picture and your bloodline
DJ Cannon with the hits, not the one from Drumline

[Hook]
(First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition)

[Verse 2]
All of these bars coming through, I'm getting sidetracked
Starting planting grenades like they Venus flytraps
Niggas want the beef but they don't want combat
They get scared when they get contact
They get scared as fuck by the contracts
A little bit of weed will put me back on track
Niggas sidelining other niggas for the testimony
That's why them fake niggas reppin' gangs, attention only
Throw them a bone and they want a steak
Throw them all locations, and they wanna stay
Throw them an inch and they want a mile
May as well leave a note, I'mma be gone a while
No prayers and nay-sayers surrounded us
Thinking back on all of the people who abandoned us
Back in the day when we couldn't afford designer
Please tell me, do you need a reminder?

[Hook]
(First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition)