I say I'm dope cause I know myself Flow is stealth, can't see it but you know it's fly No disguise, I'm as cool as I want to be Aint a ice'd out wrist or mouthpiece in the south that can touch the P Humble speech but the tone say I'm better Togas never, when in Rome, man I sepa - rate From the most, do what my soul choose Romans are cool, but I gotta let'em know dude Came through to bang swords with your toughest gladiator Make a mark, here'em talk like, Glad he came here Aint it something when the new kid is moving in? The whole block change, it aint the same cause he doing it A little different then the tenants did before him Supportin' your belief that good music still recorded (bang) The buck stops here like deer confronting shotguns You're hunting for that trophy case cadence and you got somethin' To rock dumb inside your car piece or Ipod Eyes on the teddy bear logo, fresh polo tee Kid with flows, skin and bones with a nosering Control my subjects but homie I am no king And aint seen once since the freedom marches My people now just marching to the rhythm Zombie n****s, like their soul got evicted Then fill it with the cinema, so they're gangsta C'mon muli, you a mobster, right? (Please) Only Italians you knew was icee, dont jive me Im Trugoy with the g removed I'm true boy, I'm what it be, give me feet to move About three and watch a brother get to rising Like De La did, before Ballooning in the mind (bang) A little story bout myself to get the party started I've been told I'm a little cold hearted but I love them hoes, I dont see what the problem is? Nah sis, pardon my speech I said I love you tho, that gotta count for something at least Right? No? Well that rapper said it, and you was vibing to him I guess, I aint nobody but me A dutty dreadlock Ras? Nah that's not in my steez See, I keep the hair long cause barbers be trippin' $20 for a cut son, you gotta be kiddin' Properly spittin', cause I know them toddlers be listening And I aint trying to have no hypocrites father my children Spit into the wind and tell me where the rain drop And pray Haji brain storm will brighten up your day, stop And shake off all that stressin' that your stressin

Aint no place like it, aint no place is it But every now and then, I need a break, listen I might've left it once, but came back to rest And everytime I do, it's like I never left. Look at me I came back Same cat, the same black Different pair of shoes, Mr. Cool, yep I'd say that Aint half steppin' kept them both where their posed to be On solid ground, them my footprints on the streets. They askin' me, What's the biz, what's the happs? Is you rich, I know you killin' it in Cali with the raps? I'm like, dag well I hate to disappoint Cause my last show was wack and I'm broke, you get the point To be real witcha, I've been missing ya Talking to my home state like cant you see that It wasn't you it was me, I'd write a poem for ya But roses aint red enough, and I suck at it Yo it's good to be back, in my element Well I meant my partners in fact But I'm the passenger, the same road we travelin' that We be around yo, we Brown Co. Aint no place like it, aint no place is it But every now and then, I need a break, listen I might've left it once, but came back to rest And everytime I do, it's like I never left. That place chewed me up and spit me up stepchild style Felt I'd never get a break there, in facts it's been a while now Felt more like a chore, and I aint wanna stay around So only call me if there's something wrong with my mommy And if not, sorry, I know I'm sounding all salty But all my memories are off beat Plus the grass is way greener across the street Until they bag on what I wear Im like,Where I'm from, that's what it is right there All of a sudden reppin' harder than a bumper sticker I guess where you come from is always coming witcha Now everywhere I go it's always something different Everything I took got me out there distant I can't call it, raised a little awkward Tried to turn my back, the correlation too solid, yo! Aint no place like it, aint no place is it But every now and then, I need a break, listen I might've left it once, but came back to rest And everytime I do, it's like I never left.

Brotha got his act together, never once been to drama class I'm taking full course loads, I let the drama pass To include the little beef I keep with father Who played his son and his daughter the flea flicker Rolling stone but not as cool as Keith Richards But gee mister, where you going so fast You won't even get a chance to see me g with the raps Speaking of that, moms again complain on the horn Say she mad cause her son won't write her name in a song I tell her, my loves an overpopulation of sorts It's like too many criminals encaged in a small Container for, breaking the law, engaged in a brawl That's just more than I can fit behind these 48 bars So here, take this kiss to the forehead and tell your friends That when I wrote this, I thought of you when I moved the pen I thought of you when I moved the pen I got a smile on my face, the sun on my side A pocket full of friends and a cousin doing time And everytime I come around it's love like I knew it And all they keep telling me is, come on do it. Smile on my face, sun on my side Pocket full of friends, cousin doing time Everytime I come around it's love like I knew it All they keep telling me is, come on do it Say they like it when I write it, they can hear a smile behind it An orthodontist with the rhyme I suppose cause To put a smile on yours that's what I'm writing for Well that, and a couple pairs of Nikes of course Either or it still do the soul something dumb nice Two birds, one stone, (got'em), one mic Gun shy but couldn't tell by how I creep up On unsuspecting crowds I cock back and shoot the breeze up Aim is marvelous, from any given distance I'm a guaranteed sure shot to hit my target audience Muy faults consist of a long list of things Some of which have hindered up a long list of dreams But, the way I see it homie, long as I sleep I'ma wake up to one, brotha, long live the P! I got a smile on my face, the sun on my side A pocket full of friends and a cousin doing time And everytime I come around it's love like I knew it And all they keep telling me is, come on do it. Smile on my face, sun on my side Pocket full of friends, cousin doing time Everytime I come around it's love like I knew it All they keep telling me is, come on do it Skipping work to pen a verse, man they know what I'm doing It's Ferris Bueller's day off, the kid is sick with the music And you should here what they say about him back at the schools Despite a few sisters out there trying to stick him for truant But, more importantly this is for you I'm ducking principles and rules for yall to get in the groove I could've been took my degree and bottled my speech And saved the jargon for the water cooler gossip but geez Where's the love, where's the stage and the fans Aint a pay increase better than the wave of a hand Or a hug or a Yo, that was a hell of a show And running back to your crew so you could tell'em he dope And yo (yo) yo, I just couldn't never know' So let the flow take'em where the most of us have never been Well plug me in and we can get there together friend We can get there together friend I got a smile on my face, the sun on my side A pocket full of friends and a cousin doing time And everytime I come around it's love like I knew it And all they keep telling me is, come on do it. Smile on my face, sun on my side Pocket full of friends, cousin doing time Everytime I come around it's love like I knew it All they keep telling me is, come on do it

I'm a regular brother with a regular flow I work a regular job making regular dough And I reckon I'm dope cause yall be tellin' me so But at the show in attendance be the regular folks I got a regular dog with a regular bark We take regular walks to the regular park Then he takes a poop on his regular stoop What can I say? That's a regular pooch I got regular family and regular friends So if you anything special we aint relatives then Mom dukes do okay, she be collecting some ends But ma, don't even trip, that's a regular Benz On a regular night, any regular week My DJ hits me up with a regular beat So on the reg yo, I try to write some regular heat But I usually got writers block, regularly. I used to play ball homie, pass me the joint Cross'em up, shoot the j, never averaged a point But i managed to point out when compared to others All my life I never really was the average brotha In high school I was an A student, not an A stupid A-verage, the grade curved, but I was straight (do it!) Maintain a high gpa, I tried I maintained, I'm Ha-ji P (Ayyyyyye!) Dated girls that was average at least But when they tried to play cute I tell the average peace Like, them aint D cups those are average B's And you should probably go home and brush your average teeth (geez) On the average, that's what rappers is Even to include myself and I'm talented But I'm nice with a mic and an abacus Simple mathematics kid, watch me beat the averages

all my life i've lived sticking to this tree remember at the start you feeded off of me brushing up in breezes making that sound i made every season when you were around the fall i understood swirling to the ground landed in the river not far from the mouth taking all my friends dispersing them feel my skin softening veins appearing thin something's eating what came from the tree fiber decomposing me how's this chemistry leaving me so warm parasite tendrils ripping me apart ripping me apart roots suspended in a gelatin my brain is bobbing in it resting heavy ever steady progress is a huge commitment it's easier here than it is on the surface no feasible smear that you'll need to clean up mastering death is a way to prove worth so just lay on the bottom lest you need to come up (stay here all the time that you need) currently spun and i'm wrung to nothing currently spun and wrung currently spun and i'm wrung to nothing tomorrows the day that i'll see the sun