Temptations hold me down like shackles on my freewill/
Life's ills, literally means the sickness found through the dollar bill/
Bob Marley blarrin through the speakers, gotta adjust the tweakers/
Attracted to the lyrics, similiar to heat seekers/
Time on my mind, future will hurt your present while it already hurt ya past/
Live everyday like ur last, but at the same time fast like Jesus fast/
Alcohol frees my present, represents experiences through adolescene/
Keep ya head up through the hard rain is my essence/
For livin, for diein, always be the last one cryin/
Whoever said men feel no pain musta been the first man liein/
Ya'll know me through these verses, no need for explanation/
Rap influences from black thugs poets who knew a rapper could be caucausion/
Couldn't of guessed my mind could be cleaned out with spoken poems/
Every bar shows maturity and how much a youngster grows/
From a scared little boy to a soon to be man/
Where all I learned was from books and personal experiences to become who I am/
Realized the world ain't riches and kings, chosen to be a peasent/
Watched movies about persecution and death took my mind places my rhymes couldn't send it/
Smoked my first joint, just a few hits all it took/
Hallucinations clearly painted on my walls like a picture book/
Hangin with the big boys, causin rukus 2 in the morn cops commin/
Drunk off the liquor hear the footsteps of my close friends runnin/
See the faint light of the bon fire, false alarm/
Make my drunk ass back the fire where this bitch helps me up and takes my arm/
That's growin up, my personal experiences with temptation/
Adam and Eve oblivious to the evil they were facin

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"Those who know don't talk,
and those who talk don't know a thing"
-Nas

"I swim but I wish I never learned, the water's too polluted with germs"
-Bradly Nowell

All my real niggaz stand Up.