I'm focused on trying to stay focused

In '06 I dealt with some blows now the process

Of sorting thru these ghosts can feel hopeless

It's bogus but it still gets under the skin like osmosis

Yo this world's so sick

Like neyo's hit o folks with no OHIP

Don't slip

Know who the staff you roll with is

Your staff can turn to snakes like moses'

And motives get exposed quick

When cash is grossed so don't trip

No sum is worth what your soul is

No sun immersed in the coldness

No son, reverse like the poles

Get past the bitterness out the standstill

It wasn't in the cards

Some ppl can't deal

Play the hand you're dealt

Might make a grand still

A man's real if we can return like grant hill



Those that know shad know that hes on his own path

Like a nomad rolling without a roadmap

Just 4 lads in a topaz with no gas

I call my car rocafella cause it's got a broke dash

My generation's movin so fast

Runnin like old taps

From fear and stress and tears choked back

Boys hold gats while the girls got no strap

On their dresses and won't eat 'less it's lowfat

Between lowcut tops and teeth with gold caps

That new school look's more crazy than OCAD's

When there's no dads to say don't show that

Make em look in your eyes, your mind's where the show's at

And you need more than beats for a dope track

Even with more hooks than a coat rack

And more hot lines than 1800 phones

That's why most cats in this rap game just don't last

It's not vocab they need to grow it's go nads

And back bone so they can speak and not hold back

We need folks with faith that's gon last

To teach the younger ones how to live with no mask

And pose the kind of questions that most just won't ask

And keep that hope stashed like a safe of cold cash

Our vision for the future cnt fade or go black

Like some Kodak pictures at night with no flash

Them cats be pollutin the air like smoke stacks