Verse I

You told me that the world was mine even when I didn't shine / What we had was so sublime now we're losing precious time / Met you at the age of nine you were like a dream if mine / With beauty like a gem in eye your taste in rap I can’t deny /
Doggystyle, Ready to Die, Illmatic, Aquemini / Low End Theory, Paid in Full, All Eyez on Me sitting cool / And I used to crush on you when you didn't notice / Used to fantasize in class about getting in your lotus / But in high school you passed me by wouldn't look me in the eye / Thoughts were so irrational living like the Life of Pi / Walking down the hallways music blasting in my ears / Get Rich or Die Trying rapping over the Clipse "Grinding" / Banging beats on lunch tables everybody wearing labels / Friends were mostly selling drugs teachers always called us thugs / Everyday you caught my eye and your style was always fly / Even when you didn't try we were always getting high / But I didn't get to hit it ‘til I got to college /
And you came with brain like Cal how you were soaking up that knowledge / But I couldn't bear to see you sleeping with my competition / So I had to hone my craft just to better my condition / Fake friends I don’t need acting like they know me / Even though I’m hitting higher notes I keep it low key / Rappers can’t outflow me sounding like the old me / But every time I’m on the boards I’m like the 06 Kobe

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Now I'm only doing me I wish that I could make you see / How good I could make you feel I just have to keep it real / Like I'm Stanley Kubrick I’m shining now don't lose it / Listen to my music get blown and abuse it

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Menthols and echoes rose gold in the ghetto / Tryna cop a Cadillac with the diamond in the back / Sitting fat yeah you know where it’s at / Whips and chains to make us free / Dying for our vanity

Verse II

Now I'm feeling like Aaliah how I'm writing you this letter / And I struggle with my words cause I know it won't get better /And I'm feeling like an addict we don't have that magic / That we used to have but now it's only tragic / Should've been a maverick back when I was at it / Letting rappers have it when Nas was Stillmatic / Life is better when you're near but you're message isn't clear / Do you want a backpacker do you want a trap rapper? / All the nights I spent with you touching on your body / I explored your very nature and you always loved to party / You would get drunk in the hotel ‘til you passed out in the lobby / Used to try to educate me now you're twerking popping Molly's / You even tried to bone thugs hoping for some harmony / So many men inside you but your actions aren't harming me / I’m so smooth like Coltrane but I spit that propane / Everything is crack and on the web I'm getting dough mayne / Got fans out in Spokane cause I spit that cocaine / Wisdom in my bars but sometimes I’m getting profane

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