This is too much Praying for a mic to clutch I used to sit up with my man Dave-O; and smoke blunts We were upstate New York Cold, thinking of a plan To flip our lyrical sk**s So we could make grands Have thousands of fans Travel state to state Up north, down south But it all started at this house Words left his mouth And got the ultimate respect I outstretched my arm And gave him a pound cause he correct And who was up next? In retrospect it was me A short little fly n***a Ready to emcee I would kick a free Or maybe somethin premeditated Dave would get crazy hype And say I elevated And that encouragement was my nourishment I took his positive words to heart And kept flourishin' And brother: I don't know where you are now Cause we haven't spoken for a while And I'm without a number to dial But everytime I think about you I smile 'nuff respect for helpin' me Develop my style Ol' Crew These are people you once knew Everybody got a different goal to pursue Don't forget your peoples No matter what you do And this goes out to you And you and you and you I dropped outta college Now I'm in Long Island Chilling with the ?? Freestylin' It was me ?? ?? alpha And a mega-dread power crew 'nuff said The taught me to roll locks Upon my head Then they laid down the law And this is how it read It say: Grow, never to cut and Never seperate them That's forbadem And to this day I've obeyed them We pull our money together To get food and brew Then sat in front of the television ??? Commercialized rap backs And f** the radio, too
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