Benzoin Gum + Asafoetida = 10 Years Later

[Sample (Melody): The 5th Dimension - “Requiem: 820 Latham”]

[Additional Vocals: Fatman Scoop]

[Verse 1: MF Grimm]

10 years later

I’m blessed and still breathing

But I gotta tell you, Jay, things are not greater

As you know, many more lives were terminated

So even more scars accumulated

Memories engraved deep, not faded

Death came, passed, no Sunday shaded

But I know without you, Jay, I’d have never made it

10 years later

[Hook: MF Grimm]

Thinking about you, brother, all the time (And I be)

Talking to you most of my rhymes

Things are not better, Jay.  Feel me?

More scars, more memories (And I be)

Hoping that the babies don’t suffer (And I be)

Tell ‘em that, “An MF love ya” (Love ya)

Clutched in the hands of poverty

More scars, more memories (Memories)

[Verse 2: MF Grimm]

Traveled through the years, jealousy

Became a cancer to the family

Quest for money divided us

Feels like they forgot you died for us

Feels like God just lied to us

Life on Earth is death to us

Not saying I can’t be wrong

Just saying, about this, I feel strong

[Hook (Overlapped with Interlude): MF Grimm] (x3)

Thinking about you, brother, all the time (And I be)

Talking to you most of my rhymes

Things are not better, Jay.  Feel me?

More scars, more memories (And I be)

Hoping that the babies don’t suffer (And I be)

Tell ‘em that, “An MF love ya” (Love ya)

Clutched in the hands of poverty

More scars, more memories (Memories)

[Interlude (Overlapped with Hook): MF Grimm]

To the mighty Subroc, Big L, T., K-NIT.  10 years later.  Yves St. Larock, Kae K, and to all the other ones who left this Earth too soon.  Rest in peace.  K-NIT, Subroc, Yves St. Larock, Big L.  Rest in peace.  And to all others who left this Earth too soon

[Outro: Fatman Scoop]

Let me just calm down, get myself together.  Like I told you, I don’t just endorse anything.  I don’t just walk into a studio and say, “This is hot,” or put my name or put my image on something just because.  I’m telling you this man is hot.  I’ve known this man for many years, aight?  Taking it back to the X-Ecutioner days, when Roc Raida was his DJ and he was getting down in the streets, he has continued on and done his thing, and this is the culmination of all that right here: Special Herbs + Spices Volume One