First Thoughts

[Intro: Samples & Jay NiCE]
Wake up!!
Wake up! Wake up! (What?! What?!)
Wake up! [?]
Wake up. C'mon. C'mon
Wake up. Wake up!
Wake up!!
Wake up!!
Wake up!!

Shit... fuck, man
A'ight, we up
Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside
Eastside, Eastside

[Verse]
Sippin' brown liquor, drownin' in a sea of guilt
To keep it real, my body numb, it's not a need to feel (For real, dawg)
I find it odd, it's so hard to find a even keel
The reaper watched me take the test for death; I cheated, still (Right)
My brother Mag gone, I'm lost, my other half gone (Fucked up, dawg, for real)
It make me say, "Fuck a rap song", and tuck the MAC ([?])
To go huntin' at these rats and all the suckas that attacked ours (Uh-huh. We ain't forget nothin')
Just know we comin' back hard (Yeah-yeah)
How could somethin' so beautiful have an ugly end?
My best friend, my cousin and kin, strength of a hundred men ([?])
I swear it's gon' be Belly Of The East until I'm under six
But 'til then, I won't stop until his mother's rich (Facts)
Caught in a bad place that make me wanna holler
Like Marvin havin' a one-on-one with his father in these last days
Have faith, but recent adventures makin' me backspace
Like, "This rap shit gotta wait" (For real, [?])
My soul entrapped in a glass case for the whole world to see my pain (Damn)
I cut myself extra deep, but I don't bleed the same (For real)
So many tears I shed this year, y'all wouldn't need the rain (I'm serious)
And if y'all knew what I knew, y'all wouldn't be afraid (Y'all wouldn't)
Stuck in a room with a hundred black cats
I might just play the lotto, fuck a rap track
I swear to God, I feel I'm runnin' last laps
So if this one of the last times you hearin' me, I hope the legacy is legend, leavin' lessons lyrically
I pray I enter Heaven spiritually (I pray)
My next of kin with me (Right)
I pray that Mag is there and we can reconnect the energy (I can't wait to see my bro again, bro)
But now it's just metaphysically, uh—
I love you bro, for real (For real)

[Verse 2]
So where does Jordan see himself in ten years? (Huh?)
Retired at 45, admired, immortalized ([?])
And the more that I plan success, the higher I soar and rise (Woo!)
I'm flyin' towards the sky (I'm up here)
It's no more lookin' down, doin' crime that is organized (Nuh-uh)
That part of me died ([?]) - now I'm vibrant and more alive (Gettin' money)
Resurrected, Saint Lazarus
That's why I put him on my chain, we've had the same passages (Yeah-yeah)
This life chose me, my nigga, trust, I ain't ask for this (Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah)
We wasn't born with knowledge, we made knowledge born (For real, dawg)
These are raps in honest form, need to have some time to absorb 'em
I remember playin' my favorite records, then somehow became their successor (What happened?)
In this game, I turn my pain into pleasure (Oh, man)
Don't live dry, there ain't no rain the desert
Create a wave, place a change in your weather, for real (It's simple)
And keep the family close, dawg, and never break from the pressure
'Cause it won't feel the same unless you make it together, my nigga (Ooh ooh!)
Word life, real meal (Ooh ooh! [?]) Uh
Praise Allah for the day and night to come
NiCE the one that continues to rise and shine, just like the s—

[Outro]
Yeah-yeah
Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside, Eastside
[?], we there
First thoughts
How you get the day started, man
I'm out