You could enslave our bodies, but you couldn't enslave our spirit, and those songs came out of our spirit
They came from in here. The spirit can go everywhere it wants to go
And then it comes out here
A song, that was our aspirin, that was our high blood pressure medicine, so to speak
Whether we had to cry, but then you moaned, and sometimes a moan turned into a song
It helped to get us through what we were living
And I just don't think that that thing should die
Oh, well, I hushed and whispered to the devil
Just want you to go out and bring me love
Oh, well, I hushed and whispered to the devil
Peace and blessings
And start on the track
Sometime the only person you can trust is yourself
Jeweler
Yeah
We free my mind
Walk with me
Never wanted fame, all I wanted was a good name
Heart full of pride, maybe that was just a hood thing
My first mixtape was mixed with cocaine
All nighters in the trine, I spit the cold game
I'm not a rap star, these ain't rap bars, it's pain
And see, they gon' break you or make you a better man
I juggle the game, but if I miss, hit my juggler veins
Since I lost, my older brother wasn't nothing the same
I wake up and look forward to dealing with pain
And that's a blessing too, when times get rough, the Lord is testing you
Loyalty was door number one, hate was number two
Did everything on your square, they still hated you
Gold diggers count in your pockets like they was really the night, man
I couldn't go to sleep without the Drakey on my nightstand
Power movers, I lost, but I never ran with losers
High-speeded last night and had to throw a brick
It was all love, now I really don't know the bitch
You must have found you a pimp, man, who ho is this
And I ain't trying to keep her, my nigga, I'm trying to throw the bitch
I once found the girl of my dreams, and then I blew the bitch
But every time you see me coming, I got a newer bitch
F*ck the fame, all I ever did was write my pain
To the good fellas behind the wall, you know I send my change
And if you ever been my cellie, you know we did our thing
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah