[Verse 1: INSPECTAH DECK]
I sat and kicked it with the homie, tried to ask him his thoughts
You the future, so I'll pass you the torch
He hit the backwood and coughed, said I'm contemplating clapping the bars
If I had to, I'd go after the sauce, he tried laughing it off
Dreaming bigger than a mansion in Ports, like there's more than just rap in the sports
Back and forth through the courts
Cause you know how n***as rap to the force
Trap you off, have your back to the wall
That's why I'm strapped for the wall
What up with you? I see you back from the tour
Was it cracking? Was you smashing them broads?
Was you back in them floors
Them n***as getting it, I'm trapped in the hall
Won't you throw a couple stacks in your boy?
It's like that for your boy
Shorty pregnant and she having a boy
What's he playin' for?
I can't afford bed with his toys
'Bout to mask up, blast for the cause
Had to book me in to catch me before they had my family born, boy

[Hook: ANITA BAKER]
Chasing shadows through the night, trying to find my happy end day Reaching out for another chance at heaven
We could still find a way if we try, baby, believe in me
[Verse 2: INSPECTAH DECK]
Another story about a person I know
Fly a purse in the cold
I always knew that she'll be workin' the pole since thirteen year old
She used to tease me, have me thirst for the hole
Now she's servin' the poles, I'm just observin' the show
Schoolgirl with the skirt and the bow, movin' the body with the circular flow
Like, do you wanna dance? I pass
If I do, you'll be the first one to know
She grabbed her purse and her clothes and said, I'm earnin' my dough
Fightin' hard to hide the hurt in her soul
She only do it just to purchase a home, cause she deservin' her own
Callin' men dogs, cursin' a storm
That's why me and you mergin' is wrong
Why you urgin' it on? It reminds me of the words that I heard in a song
Black girl lost, murdered by Nas
She just looked me in the eye, now the murder response
Do her hair behind her back, drop the bra on her thong, wow

[Hook: ANITA BAKER]
Diamonds shinin' in the night, lying soft and wide
Together, your only images survive and my dreams grow up forever

[Verse 3: INSPECTAH DECK]
It'll take more than this track when describin' my life
I'm tryin' to live it like the time of my life
The drama's got in my life
Do what I do, God, decide if it's right
Let the haters go and smite me for spite, and it's likely they might
General, hype for the fight
I'ma go hard, even if it mean I'm dyin' tonight
Just a lesson I decided to write
Like, it's time to wake the mind
Find some type of right in your life
Truth gon' blow and pipe you to the night
Icin' your ice, little n***a probably ain't strike you as a type
Man, anybody get it, you can write with the price
Or if you spyin', you complyin' with vice
Or you the shiesty type
Unofficials get wiped of they stripes
It's real here, n***as die for they nights
You can try if you like
No escapin', trapped inside of the light
Holla mañana, that's if we survive the night