[Verse 1]
America got a thing for this gangster sh**, well I ain't got it
So if different sh** is wack to you, don't cop it
I can only be honest in the sh** that I write
Take a trip through my life
Visit the vivid imagery I'm giving you twice
One with the beat, the other when I'm spitting precise
You can't help but say this n***a is nice
But if I don't make a tech spit
You won't respect it
Or cop the record, so f** it let me get reckless
If I like that shine on your necklace
I'm a buss shots, go Shyne on your necklace
Drop top sped off before them hot shots let off
Now your a** can't wear shine cause you're neckless (haha)
sh**, let's get serious people
Real sh** really isn't real to you people
This is my life, f** what you write
This is my genre, f** what you like
I got
[Hook]
No real family
No real friends
No real escape
No real end
So I'm gonna die with my music by my side and that's true sh**
No good liquor
No good bud
No good p**y
No good d**
So music is the only love
[Verse 2]
You ever had a f**in' conversation with a song you sampled?
Smoking as much weed as the bong could handle
I was high looking for some inspiration
A way that I could talk through the beat itself
Then I put on some Graham Central Station
Track 9 on the album, Release Yourself, it said
"Music is the only Love"
Hell Motha f**in' yeah it's the only love
I'm never lonely cause it disowned me
Trust that if it needs me, I'll be there and vice versa
Can't say the same about these phoney punks
When I was laying in the hospital bed hooked to an IV
No one even cared if I'm dead, ain't want to find me
Music was right there, My life was touched
So I love music twice as much
Sometimes I feel like I got...
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
Sleepin' on the 2 train, freezing cold
18 years old, wearing pink and gold
No desire to live, nowhere I need to go
Dead tired, but wired from weed and coke
E and dope, speed and anything that could help me
Leave this hopeless state of mind
God saw me, he would note
Forgive me God for saying leave me alone
He forgave me, and he gave me
The best thing thats ever happened to me
That's the treble and the ba** clef
Turns out that I had it since a baby
Because of pain, I lost sight of it lately
This whole world makes me crazy
But not music, Music just makes me
I don't make music, Music makes me
So you can hate me, Music appreciates me
Can y'all hear me out there?
(I'm gon' die with my music by my side)
How y'all feelin?
[Speaking over hook]
What's real for you?
What comes from your heart?
My music comes from my heart
So this is dedicated to anyone who puts music first
If you would rather sing than breathe
If all you had left in your body was the ability to play your instrument
Would you?
If so, this is for you
If you would write a song with your own blood as ink
This is for you
Music is not just an expression, it's an art form
It is a tourniquet to the bleeding heart
Music is the helicopter that saves your soul from the hurricane of life
If music is all you got
This is for you
(Music is the only love)