Listen To Your Heart
I know there’s something in the wake of your smileI get a notion from the look in your eyes, yeahWe’ve built a love but that love falls apartA little piece of heaven turns to darkListen to your heart
There's a certain mystique when I speak,that you notice that it's sorta unique,cause you know it's me, my poetry's deep,and I'm still matic the way I flow to this beat,you can't sit still, it's like tryin to smoke crackand go to sleep, I'm strapped,just knowing any minute I could snap,I'm the equivalent of what would happen if Bush rapped,I bully these rappers so bad lyrically,it ain't even funny, I ain't even hungry,it ain't even money, you can't pay me enoughfor you to play me, it's cockamamie,you just ain't zany enough to rock with Shady,my noodle is cockadoodle, my clocks cuckoo,I got screws loose, yeahhh, the whole kitten-kaboodle,I'm just brutal. It's no rumor, I'm numero uno, assume it,there's no humor in it no more, you knowI'm rollin with a swollen bowling ball in my bag,you need a fag to come and tear a new hole in my ass
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There used to be a time when, you could just say a rhyme andWouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyingBut now it's elevated, cause once you put someone's kids in itThe shit gets escalated, it ain't just words no more is it?It's a different ball game, you call names and you ain't just rappingWe actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happeningMe and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had a chat with himAnd asked him not to start it, he wasn't going to go after himUntil Ja started yapping in magazines how he stabbed himFuck it, 50 smash him, mash him and let him have itMeanwhile my attention's pulled in another directionSome receptionist at the Source who answers phones at his deskHas an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his resurrectionTries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new recordBut now he's fucked the game up, cause one of the ways I came upWas through that publication, the same one that made me famousNow the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothing?
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I remember back one year when daddy had no moneyMommy wrapped the Christmas presents upAnd stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from meCause daddy couldn't buy 'emI'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night cryingCause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a jobBut his job was to keep the food on the table for you and momAnd at the time every house that we lived inEither kept getting broken into and robbedOr shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jarTryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to collegeAlmost had a thousand dollars til someone broke in and stole itAnd I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heartAnd it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart