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'll put that on my everything I put that on my name
Some things are set in stone and other things are born to change

I only wanted a scholarship
Since I was 5 or 6
Do what what my father did
But I was bottled in
I know that it bothered him
Tuff one to swallow when
You proceed to watch your seed get all hollered at
By a kind a man who ain't no kinda man
Thank God I had my mantra, Nigga I'm the man
Sometimes I think to where my father stand
And wonder how he kept his cool from off on side stands
I guess that was the reason he was hollerin
He was tryin to break them chains while lookin like a fan
So now I'm twice the man. From all a lifes exams
and when I'm seekin inspiration yo i write to him

Oh Family - You're all a part a me
The strongest of influence yo ya taught me how to see
Sometimes we may not get along sometimes may not agree
But you're the wings on which I fly ya navigate the Odyssey


I only wanted to be a preacher
A Soul reacher
Some selling dreams some sellin souls
You sold neither
Was like alicia on piano keys-you so diva
So amazing how you'd get em high with no reefer
You the reason that I wanted to know Jesus
Every word from out ya mouth Ma I would believe ya
I put you up there with Moses and Peter
Wasn't always what you said but on occasion how ya read us
It was more than just them home cooked meals that you would feed us
It was the soul food - all we had to go thru
Somehow I got know me as I got to know you
A debt I can't repay cause Ma this life is what I owe you


He only wanted to be comedian
Be on the TV and
Have the people up in stitches when they seein him
But this life is full a choices where should we begin
As the doors start to open thinks he sees the end
And its just flashin lights and all the Kanye types
Where the media be messing wit ya style a life
And thats a sacrafice that wasn't worth the hype
So I guess ya take his dream and chalk it up to pipe
But in the meantime brothas on the green line
Hoppin off the train with the money his brain
Brought up under poverty and somethings gotta change
Business could be lucrative just figure out the game
Now his figures got his figure on the 1st class a the plane
Everybody's drinking and yo he the one who's payin
His dough so long it ain't a thing for him to flame
Said I earn it so I burn it on whatever you can name

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from The Edge, released January 31, 2011

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