(feat. Chino XL, Common, Royce Da 5'9)



[Intro]

Yeah

Sway and Tech nigga

My name is 5'9

Y'all been in the game for a minute

Shout out to GangStarr

What up Prim' (back to basics)



[Chorus]

A lot of shit has happened, since I started rappin

A lot of shit has happened, since I started rappin

A lot of shit has happened, since I started rappin

There's been enough beef, and enough gat clappin



[Royce da 5'9]

Yeah

I'da became a target

From the bottom became the hardest artist in the game

The first time they started to market my name

I started to change

Smart but hardly could think logically

The insane part of me layin inside of me says pardon

me so I part with the same side of me

I hang out with the same guys

Either they not noticin the game changin me or they ain't watchin me

Bitches sayin, "hi" to me

Niggaz who ain't hot as me

Picturin me slain niggaz gettin plain tired o' me

Lookin down at 'em when he got the same drive as me

We the same niggaz aim just as high as me

Everything is the same with us but the thing is that I

came in here with a different anxiety

Hopefully the day I retire is approachin me lookin

back like those were the days I was fly

(But y'all gon' learn) from the mistakes to wait and

to be patient wrong turns did take up a lot of time

But I finally found my way around now I'm wiser

I thank God that I made it out alive



[Chorus]



[Common]

One man rises another falls

To discover all is one and one is all

I come to call like Jericho with the trumpets

It's wild and the honeys gramps and the Kwa hummin

The Lord soon comin

From glow some grow

Many stay stunted songs with the shorties knowin

I learn from the keep the dumb shit from my circumference

I run with niggaz that wanted and done it the hunted and blunted

L said it gotta come from the stomach

To me the stomach is the voice of the Lord

The revolutionary people's choice the award

Seein souls move forward

Ghosts move toward new homes and new floors for us to rise to

In the attic tapin up my Bible thinkin I cannot apply to survival

The un-American Idol seein by the size of those times

I put it in my rhymes

A lot of shit has happened



[Chorus]



[Chino XL]

Yo, welcome lambs to the slaughter

It's the most important moment in my life since the birth of my daughters

Regardless, all is well in the universe put man

track, and Chino who cannot spit a wack verse

My first CDs basically made me Marky Mark with the

whole planet of the apes chasin me

Here to save you all now rap ain't worth savin but I

can't get the pavement with gay shit like Craig David

Vocal arrangements even basic I'm still the hottest

nigga to spit inside of my cousin Tigga basement

I've no replacement for what's seeming like ages

I ain't no hypochondriac complainin I stay sick

Standin ovations for acapellas shitiations

I get better with agens everybody's observation

Starvation to brawl the last samurai

Take an eye for an eye till the world goes blind I'm bovine

Raging bull words are my weapons hoping not over ya head like cangos in '87

I move from Jers' to Cali' fillin the love

Move moms to Miami promised I would

Beef 'n drama i've been you wouldn't last through

What's funny motherfucker I wanna laugh too

But now I'm ready to get rich old dog new tricks

Told L could dig to China with chopsticks

When I switch to the big leagues this year with no fear

Cuz who'd even believe that I'd be here



[Chorus]