This Is What I Do

[Intro]

Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen

I'll like to thank you for your support, love

Not only to me, but to the whole hip-hop industry itself

We as a whole, we've been weatherin' the storm

From the start, 30-plus years ago to now

But uh, like all victims of hate, we persevere

So allow me to speak not only for me

But on behalf of the hip-hop coalition

Every hood, every ghetto across the United States of America

[Verse]

Yeah, as a youngin, I was innocent and sponge-in

Just learnin' the life and, Christ second comin'

Well mannered and nice, got advice from a woman

But when the money get tight, the stomach start grumblin'

It was summer then, wasn't no Hummers then

Run in the Benz, you was kingpin and bubblin'

We started huddlin', puttin in, and jugglin'

A year later we straight, no more strugglin'

HA! But that was only the start

The love between the homies started fallin' apart

I guess anything's addictive when it's callin' your heart

Death and incarceration had us all in the dark

We was done, some would say "we had a beautiful run"

And if beauty is skin deep we was beneath the slums

I was numb, rap was like speakin' in tongues

So relax, I adapt within a week, I was sprung

Spoke facts on the track was like squeezin' a gun

No more crack, all the boys on my back hearin', "RUN!"

Yeah, I change done came

All them years, on the stairs with G Rap and Kane

I felt pain, them demons still lurkin' my brain

But the ways of the most high is too preserve to explain

It was the fame, that focused me, perfected my game

And like that, there's so many others that this rap will remain

And in exchange, we give fans the force of the reign

To feed, nurture, and breed, and be the voice of the slain

It's a shame, but that real shit come with the life

And in order to obtain, you gotta sacrifice

It's like cuttin' your bid shorter, don't pass on fights

I'm maturer, so you know all my facts is right

Plus my aura is like the spoilers on the Porsche at night

So be polite, just go for them critics that write

This is rap, we from the hood, just tryin' to get us a slice

Some'll bite, but the most just coast with ice

And, rock a little chain, and, get a little brain

[Outro]

Ha ha-ha ha, yea, hey, it is what it is

You know rap has no rules

See my enlightener he-he once told me once said

"If there is no devilish-ment, then there will be no Godliness"

"One can't exist without the other"

Knah'mean? It's like, a doctor is only needed to heal

And he caters to the sick, so the sick must exist, ya heard?

A minister, he only gives sermon to, uh you know

Those seekin' for forgiveness, so them sinners must exist

You know? It's simply simplistic, ha ha-ha ha

It's AZ the God, Constantine, Quiet Money for life

This is what I do, I'm here...