I'm not a gangster and nor will I try to be,
At times I sigh, staring at the sky, crosseyed
I f I was fake you'dnt have to be blind to see
Not only be lying to you, why would I lie to me
Look Jack I'm more like Rap's John Cusack
I see the people in back like "hold up wait who's that?"
Ok, maybe John Cusak is a bit too whack, thanks
I'm more bank like Tom Hanks.... (Ooooo snap)
Well I guess I kind of look like Chuck from Castaway
But I spit more like Muhammad back when he was Cassius Clay
My granpaps taught me truth so "thats the way"
I spit real stats to ca ts thems just the facts ok?
I got into Rap when I was about 10
1990, I first heard Brand Nubian
I stole Grand Daddy I U's Smooth Assassin
And copped "Let The Rhythm Hit Em" Eric B and Rakim
I fell in love with hip-hop, I went back to my house
Started writing a rhyme book hid it inside of my couch
My moms wouldn't be wid it , man she would flip out
If she ever heard that shit coming outta my mouth


When Ic e Cube and De La died in '91
I nodded out to that shit everyday on the bus
Adam was Breaking Atoms, his Main Source of fun
Beatboxing while he organized his friends confusion
Kids were into Guns and Roses, I was into Funky Del
A full hip-hop Juinkie by the age of 12
The Chronic Bizzaree Ride II displayed on shelf
D orginal prophet fore ya played yaself
To come clean,was thirteen when I tried to be hood
A wanna be gangster, tried as much as I could
But I lived in a hick town, and then understood
you can't fake thug out in the sticks or the woods
93' I got real, rapped about shit in my life
breakups to makeups, relationships, girls and the like
Had the foresight to write quite advanced type spite
Christ even battled my mom dukes at least once or twice
Thats right, my productions always live up to hype
And my lyrics can snipe out any rappers that bite
Style, words, flows, quickly put haters on ice
I'm always pysched, on the mic, that why they say Absense is nice