[Verse 1: Tragedy Khadafi]
It started out in '85, live movement
Born with a mic attached to my hand, I love music
Grew with lyrical giants and rap gods
Long before CNN, Mobb Deep and Nas
Ghetto child, tell me how I see that far
I was blessed, some of my friends, they didn't beat the odds
Got introduced to weed by (?) and (?)
And my heart was a G just dying to break free
Mom tried to put me on to the code of the street
Closed Malcolm get fed in a week, just don't eat
Never played ball, I felt comfortable over beats
Never stayed home, I felt more love in the streets
Educated by the dope fiends, hustlers and crips
We learned that good die young and crew love is deep
Found n***as seamen just died in their sleep
Don't expect to see 30-18 as your peak
[Verse 2: Tragedy Khadafi]
Paragraphs intended in past tenses
Redeemed from a young black menace during crack's epidemic
Neighborhoods changed over night
Trip over my shoulder would have griped
No question I was destined to hold the mic
This was foreseen before the age of fourteen
Mom's life almost lost cut short being a fiend
Now on course staying clean, yet the damage is done
Hooked on the rock like the granite and abandoned the sun
In '89, I have to blast 'em loud
It was Intelligent Hoodlum rapping 'I'm black and I'm proud'
Exquisite and beautiful
Beyond digits and numerals
Prisons and funerals
Arrest the president, business as usual
Trashed my diploma from high school
Built it with desciples like Michael with IQs
High to the roof
Forget their vital interest and applying to the service
Breathe life to replenish, here for a higher purpose
[Verse 3: Blak Madeen]
So many contreversial things that I came to say
(?)
We all got friends and family in A Yay
Trying to go straight before we lay in the grave
This is life everyday, by fatal and it hits home
I premate 'em, alcohol syndrome
Free your dome 'cause it's cold shiver devilish
And if you're coming at the king, you can never miss
I know what heaven is, it's written in the Qur'an
36-12, (?) imam
Playing it in black and white, so you can't deny it
Like the 1984 law time race riots
I face giants, like David and Goliath
Life's a tragedy, so we try to triumph
We don't plan to fail, we just fail to plan
There's no God but Allah so we fear no man