Raekwon - The Red Carpet lyrics

[Verse 1: Evidence] I set it off in the sunny distance, no days existed My patience led the way 'til the greatest love listened to me I used to play the witness, wait in the trenches It's like the sixth man, sits on different benches It's hard squeezing life in a sentence And if I do, roll carpet with the red tint My entrance is what's between When I exit, it's Evidence left on the scene Alchemist cut the record down, to the bone And with a record like this I take the world by storm It's God blessed, the land of the brave Understand where I stand, my hand is made From B-R-double-O-K-lyn the planet Family landed, managed to raise the man that I became Panic on my first campaign But when the words fell in place, I was certain to reign I hit the purple then step in the circle and start flexin' Weatherman invented, now storms change directions Portions of my proceeds is feeding my homies now I always shared pretty good for an only child I was the baby boy, I could do no wrong Now the role's reversed, I'm putting people on They off welfare and got healthcare They used to have their priorities elsewhere I took rims and tires and traded them For a ticket to an island, that's where I wrote this rhyme in Where I first saw my vision written Driven by a better living, a place to raise kids in So I think like I rule the world, on the brink of something bigger Building schools for boys and girls The thought alone gets me out of my bed I said you got the tools, get them sh**s up out of the shed, c'mon [Refrain] [Verse 2: Raekwon] I'm like the interstate of rhymin', the Jack Dempsey emcee All my sh** customed out, hold the fort eventually Money is made, fly blades A woman with brains, it help a black n***a reign My lifestyle as a prowler; a rich loaner, owner Used to pump at coffee shops, had my b**h Roselle with me rolling up Fly a** and still cla**y, asking questions like Why you wait on that gla**, why would you splash me Yo, it's only n***a sh** I'ma teach you like I was taught to Hold the fort, walk through Seeing all kind of grey fossils Colossal j**els, bigger house, act fly, I got you No need to walk backwards, f** up the taxes My street credibility is stronger than NASA's yeah Yo a diplomatic winner, Nike boots A skully good denim jean on, and one-rent em [Refrain] [Verse 3: Ra** Ka**] They say you only live once, I disagree You only live twice, your life and then through your seed's So I bleed on wax and feed them the deed So when I die they got the foundation on my publishing B Plus the words that I speak, here's my family j**els It ain't all blood diamonds, but life experience tools And I be rhyming cool but my philosophy's deep Like a Dear John letter, so read em and weep And the wolves smell blood, you can feed em the meat But I'm a lycan, Underworld we can meet in the street Draw heat, but what happened to peace He got a Dirty Sanchez, like what happened to Screech Jesus, diarrheas, I mean holy sh** Christ on a cracker, that's just how we spit Communion, add the wine, make the sign of the cross And I don't live in the past, chalk it up as a loss Went from, please listen to my demo to stretch limo To the pen in a cell watching Eminem on Jimmy Kimmel But I can't go out like Kimbo Slice Like Gina Corano, I'm a Cyborg we terminate Mano a mano, still Ronald McDonald, over one billion served But it's up to me to get what I deserve So I handle my biz and hustle harder than the norm The early bird gets the worm, but the hawk gets the bird