Crash!

[Verse]

I was stuck, no I couldn't move up

Give a fuck, I'm a nice guy, heart bruised up

Light skin youth same complexion bruiser

My life grew, that's right I grew up

Try truth, don't try amuse us

What would I be if I ain't have music?

Just let it be, can't entertain the bruises

I gotta heal 'cause I was squealin' too much

Poppa feel too real, true love

I'm up front, the back line move up

Catch me offsides, sometimes you gotta choose up

On the street light stepping through the mud

Couldn't settle, it was never what it was

Time lost for the pain on my cousin

Shine on me, lens get focused

Snap shots of the block I would grow on

Front lawn grass hopping like a locust

12th street til the day that I croak

Malamutes pull, got the reins in my palms

When it rain put my faith in Ifá

Taking it far, got the face of a god

No face gon' alarm me

Bitter taste don't alarm me

Used to it on the farm scene

Back then I was in them Phat Farm jeans

Baby Phat we was speaking over sun cheeks

Rose red, light skin but the truth speaks

My heart gon' sing whenever it get the chance

Try love measuring better things within grasps

In the back of the cab we crash

In the back, we crash

[Outro: Dick Cavett & James Earl Jones]

This was several years ago and I said at this point

No one knows wether to say black or negro or colored man

And people are always pausing and hesitating and

In your deep voice you said why don't you try nigga

And I as I say it now I get goose pimples do you remember this moment?

It's jigaboo now

Ohh nooo now now we’re all in trouble but I don't know remember that moment

You used though your deepest resonance and went right to the soles of my shoes

How you been? Quiet