Track 13 from Sevin’s 2007 album “B4 I Wake”.
This song is about his rap skills, his art and how he’s able to escape the turmoil of his life and find worth in his writing.
To get that sort of skill a man would have to train for years...
Uh, C'mon
This is... all I know
Uh huh
C'mon
Take this walk with me...
[Sevin]
This is my life, this is my love this is my word
This is everything I stand for fresh off the curb
This is my pain and my agony, this is my tears
This is the reason that I'd grind it out for so many years
This is my end, the monologue that welcomes my death
The only reason I have for even tryin' to accept my next breath
This is my truth so you can trust this is the real
The only conceivable reason to say that I'm the nigga you feel
This is my solitary confine this is my prison
The only thing in which I'll ever find a reason for livin'
It's my catacomb I hide in, this is my tomb
This is the beginning of my ending, this is my doom
This is my art, in it's purest form this is my life
My mind and soul have intercourse within the lines that I write
This is the reason I am apprehensive, this is my fear
But it's my perfect purpose, so it's the reason I'm here
Yeah...
Uh, uh this is my vision
This is me, dog, risen from hell
This is the very witchcraft that has me bound in a spell
This is my joy this is my smile this is my gift
This is my escape from turmoil, this is my 5th
This is my protective hedge, yeah my heat and my blade
This is the reason you can keep me when I sleep in my grave
This is my hood, this is my set, this is my block
This is every single solitary thing that I've got
This is my treasure, this is my value, this is my worth
This is the only reason I exist, this is my birth
This is my child, my baby girl, this is my boy
This is my cause and effect dog to build and destroy
This is my blessing from the mouth of God, this is my call
This is my substance in the sense that this is my all
This is my lust, my gluttony this is my greed
My manuscript for survival dog it's all that I need
Yeah...
Yeah, yeah, yeah
This is my fingerprint my signature, this is my style
The reason tomorrow does not exist, this is the now
The resolution of my ambitions, this is my dream
This is the means to my end and yet, the end to my means
This is the object of my attraction, it's more than a fling
The only reason I am capable to show you these things
This is the mirror that exposes imperfections and flaws
The only, code that I honor, no respect for the law
This is my bloodline, my legacy, this is my proof
This is the reason so many lonely nights were spent on the roof
This is my footprint, the evidence of enhancement revealed
The only emotion I never took the chance to conceal
This is the battlefield of my psyche, this is my strife
The only woman able to be faithful so this is my wife
This is the reason I can feel whatever feelin' is felt
The only thing that keeps me sane instead of killin' myself
Yeah...