[Intro]
[Sample Quote from “Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood”]
[Ashtray's Mother]
I don't want you hanging out in the streets. I want you to finish school. ‘Cause without an education, the only kind of work you're gonna get is selling d**, pimping women, or working security for Eddie Murphy. Now, I've done all I can. I got my education, I worked two jobs to support you. But I can't teach you how to be a man. Now, give me a kiss and be a good boy
[Akir]
Again? Big shout to John Legend. It's Akir. We dedicate this to everybody with they eyes on the prize
[Statik Selektah]
Statik Selektah, Akir. It's “The Secret.”
[Verse 1 – Akir]
Song-writing again
Gotta show the industry I'm nice, lightning when I strike with the pen
Blao! Getting older. Just got sober. But I'm drinking again
And we performing at ten. And if she caught it to then
Hope I don't f** up my rhymes again
I got over. sh**, I'm a soldier
I freestyle mean styles until the end
But I'm tired of performing the same sh**
I had to get back on the street—the hustler's language
And though I thought [?] time, my lane switch
Free shows, gotta eat mo' the same sh**
Promoting, still faking
I'm getting much love from my fam
But those close to the grams
Broke while they shaking my hand
So I explain who I am
They don't give a f**
Only shorty's hitting me up
I wanna quit the nicotine, but
I light ‘em up again (light ‘em up)
And make progress to show change
But thug n***as go hard to the cage
My OG of old age
Complaining of wage. Go back to old ways
Almost as slaves
I never, ever wanna have to say: goodbye
[Verse 2 – John Legend]
So I've got a new friend
I wish I could forget you but I miss you, wanna kiss you again
But she's like you
But she not you
Gotta find you again
We remember again
The middle of the summer and I take you out to dinner again
Boy, I love her
It's not over
‘Cause I love her again