[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1]
Conversations on the sidewalk
Fly talk to make ya child walk
Never replying to the side talk
Outline em in dry chalk
Late at night when the nine spark
No time for nothing that ain't uplifting tho
Drug store runs up the block give and go
Had to wake my conscious up they took my tonsils out
This girl told me my life was something to write a song about
8 albums later still ain’t said the half of it
All the stereotypes they gave me had to shatter them
Go to the root of the pain suggest you do the same
Some cope with heroin then they inherit blue veins
City life can look pretty from outside
Dressed up in bright lights to hide the foul side
Fiends that cry Dreams that died
Status symbols fake smiling when u bleed inside

[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
This is part of story they don't tell you bout
Gangster rap fairy tales I heard a fair amount
On top of stairwells these story's rarely end well
This a jewel I leave behind till I farewell

How we celebrate the fact that we trapped?
Violent bars the crowd giving me a battery pack
So what the fuck else you think I’m a write? I gotta live right?
Music is a biz and something gotta give right ?
So I can package it the way I wanna package it
My imagination don't have to be accurate
Disconnect ya mind they call it escapism
Don't wanna face reality cause too much pain in it
100,000 advertisements on the streets got brain clouded
My inner peace flooded with rain showers
Punching the clock is too slow to cop an Hublot
Right dose of coffee and liquor not to get too low
And when the money low we chase behind the money owed
Freaks and zombies coming out when the sun is low
Schools getting shot still don't got no gun control
Can never shake the feeling we being under sold
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
This is part of story they don't tell you bout
Gangster rap fairy tales I heard a fair amount
On top of stairwells these story's rarely end well
This a jewel I leave behind till I farewell