Yeah, yo, c`mon
Ride wit me, lemme take you somewhere

My father was a soldier, my mother was a rider
I was born wit my fists balled up, I`ma fighter
Inspired, a real rhyme writer
Get past the past the future looks brighter

But, I wanna get it back to the way it was
Exchange blows, elbows and it was still love
A better time, better place in space
`Cause nothin` can erase, shame tat` like my ni**a Chase

`Cause Bigga B will never be replaced, right
And I`ma scream it to the whole f**kin` human race
Get a bar, get a taste
Enforce the muscle to ya hustle and ya did it with grace

`Cause real ni**az don`t save face, they make movements
Back to the time when hip-hop was music
When N.W.A. got booed at the Apollo
Broke "Straight Outta Compton" and the whole world followed

`Cause right now hip-hop is hollow
With no substance, X-Man with the roughness
`Cause success can suck sometime
And many of us the way we act, we even lost our minds

You can hold your breath, `til you`re blue in the face
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on

You can speculate, on every breath I take
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on

Back to the day when Cooley was High
Hustle big like Butch in the Y B I
We did it n` died, the gang still multiplied
Sock yo wind pipe, cut yo air supply

Hypnotized, not by the glitz n` glamor
So f**k them cameras, all I need is clips and hammers
The X-Man said that the first rhyme out
Were my fans worth my time? The first line out, so

Here we are eight years strong and still movin`
Groovin` with a reputation ya can`t ruin
I wanna take it back how it used to be
Five thousand f**ked up, rockin` outta unity

You can hold your breath, `til you`re blue in the face
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on

You can speculate, on every breath I take
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on

Was it the alcohol in you, the money the power the fame
That made you actually attempt to try to disgrace my name?
Played those games ni**a when I was younger in life
`Til I seen another man`s life cut short with a knife

Lose teeth, `cause beef, no peace with us
Ya can`t hang, and ya sho` can`t eat with us
When times get tough, the tough get rough and drastic
Never been blasted, never been an arrogant bastard

But I coulda been a lawyer, I shoulda been a doctor
I never been a actor, I`m nothin` but a monster
I move in silence, speak with violence
Think with science, live free and walk with lions

Cats around me with gats like Yasser Arafat
It takes a nation of millions to hold me back
Pounds of cush to push what I`m talkin` about
It`s hard to talk the talk with a gauge in yo mouth

It`s hard to walk the walk with ya back blew out
Don`t let the things that you can`t change stress you out
`Cause X take the money and run, and raise a man from a son
And change the world with the power of one c`mon

You can hold your breath, `til you`re blue in the face
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on

You can speculate, on every breath I take
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on