This Is What I Do
Title | This Is What I Do |
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Artist | AZ |
Album | The Format |
Release Date | 2006-11-07 |
Description | ? |
Lyrics | [Intro] Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen I'll like to thank you for your support, love Not only to me, but to the whole hip-hop industry itself We as a whole, we've been weatherin' the storm From the start, 30-plus years ago to now But uh, like all victims of hate, we persevere So allow me to speak not only for me But on behalf of the hip-hop coalition Every hood, every ghetto across the United States of America [Verse] Yeah, as a youngin, I was innocent and sponge-in Just learnin' the life and, Christ second comin' Well mannered and nice, got advice from a woman But when the money get tight, the stomach start grumblin' It was summer then, wasn't no Hummers then Run in the Benz, you was kingpin and bubblin' We started huddlin', puttin in, and jugglin' A year later we straight, no more strugglin' HA! But that was only the start The love between the homies started fallin' apart I guess anything's addictive when it's callin' your heart Death and incarceration had us all in the dark We was done, some would say "we had a beautiful run" And if beauty is skin deep we was beneath the slums I was numb, rap was like speakin' in tongues So relax, I adapt within a week, I was sprung Spoke facts on the track was like squeezin' a gun No more crack, all the boys on my back hearin', "RUN!" Yeah, I change done came All them years, on the stairs with G Rap and Kane I felt pain, them demons still lurkin' my brain But the ways of the most high is too preserve to explain It was the fame, that focused me, perfected my game And like that, there's so many others that this rap will remain And in exchange, we give fans the force of the reign To feed, nurture, and breed, and be the voice of the slain It's a shame, but that real shit come with the life And in order to obtain, you gotta sacrifice It's like cuttin' your bid shorter, don't pass on fights I'm maturer, so you know all my facts is right Plus my aura is like the spoilers on the Porsche at night So be polite, just go for them critics that write This is rap, we from the hood, just tryin' to get us a slice Some'll bite, but the most just coast with ice And, rock a little chain, and, get a little brain You might also like[Outro] Ha ha-ha ha, yea, hey, it is what it is You know rap has no rules See my enlightener he-he once told me once said "If there is no devilish-ment, then there will be no Godliness" "One can't exist without the other" Knah'mean? It's like, a doctor is only needed to heal And he caters to the sick, so the sick must exist, ya heard? A minister, he only gives sermon to, uh you know Those seekin' for forgiveness, so them sinners must exist You know? It's simply simplistic, ha ha-ha ha It's AZ the God, Constantine, Quiet Money for life This is what I do, I'm here... |