[00:00.47]Here's a little food for thought
[00:03.68]As i tell it, cause if it happened to this cat
[00:07.56]Then it can happen to you,
[00:10.10]Do the knowledge
[00:10.57]I was sittin' outside double parked after dark,
[00:13.73]I think it was the corner of nostrand and st. mark,
[00:16.35]That's when this stray cat walked up to me,
[00:18.15]Now i was sure he would be,
[00:19.54]But you woulda thought he'd know me
[00:21.12]Tellin' his life story to me
[00:22.35]He said 'yo kane', since way back in his life
[00:24.71]Days of rappers delight, yo he was after the hype
[00:27.98]He rocked the kangols, adidas when run and them had that spot
[00:31.41]When i came out, he had a flat-top
[00:33.47]And when naughty came out, a couple years ago
[00:36.05]He even tried the braids up in his hair
[00:38.12]but they ain't hear him tho
[00:39.23]Vexed and down, you know next he found
[00:41.44]Heavy d was blowing up, so then he tried to gain extra pounds
[00:44.73]No thanks to that, they ranked him wack
[00:47.29]Only thing that's left to do, was to go gangsta rap
[00:50.32]So now he rhyme about the keys being sold
[00:52.69]The g's being fold, the trees being rolled
[00:55.88]Now sure he should, he started acting like he from the hood
[00:58.73]Talking thug game and had his record sales doing good
[01:01.54]And so now, you on the road to riches
[01:04.03]Referring to the womankind as hoes and *******
[01:06.84]Yeah, you the man now because you rap is for ?
[01:09.57]But you got your 7 year old daughter listenin'
[01:12.30]The twist begin
[01:13.42]When that the image you projecting
[01:15.07]It starts to reflecting on your shorty cause she checking
[01:18.15]Do you really know
[01:19.68]What's the path that you really need to go
[01:22.25]And what example you really need to show
[01:25.07]The good rep or the hood rep
[01:26.61]While she's walking in her father's footsteps
[01:29.21]Do you really know
[01:30.90]What's the path that you really need to go
[01:33.62]And what example you really need to show
[01:36.35]The good rep or the hood rep
[01:37.94]While she's walking in her father's footsteps
[01:39.98]It be that excess drama, wonder rhymer
[01:42.94]That could make one rapper, convert to, gun clapper
[01:45.98]That acting buckwild, boy you know that ain't your style
[01:48.75]Plus your thug profile is now reflecting on your child
[01:51.49]You thinking that it couldn't happen
[01:53.28]But then it happen
[01:54.20]And now you're rappin, came back to haunt you
[01:56.52]Because you want to
[01:57.46]Be in her face puffin' li with your crew
[01:59.93]You even let her take a sip or two upon your brew
[02:02.60]Instead of tryin to shed light, to keep her head right
[02:05.16]So that she wouldn't do the things that the next kid might
[02:07.91]Oh now you never did consider tho
[02:10.10]Your kid could go
[02:11.13]Trying to do the things she saw you do up in your video
[02:13.94]You went upstairs thinking that she wasn't able
[02:16.55]Slipping, left your glock sittin' pon the coffee table
[02:19.34]So as you hang, with your gang, doin your thang
[02:21.90]Blowe! unexpectedly to your ears the shot rang
[02:24.86]Came down, never thinking that you'd see what you saw
[02:27.48]Right there, layin in blood across your livin room floor
[02:30.29]So now, as you sit in grief, total disbelief
[02:32.99]Cause everything that ever mattered
[02:34.49]To you is all shattered
[02:36.08]Instead of concentratin' heavily on what your rep be
[02:38.65]You should have been thankful for your child like cheryl pepsi
[02:41.90]Cause if you would have stayed aware
[02:43.82]To whose in your care
[02:45.00]She wouldn't be no casualty to your career, right here"
[02:47.81]Do you really know
[02:49.31]What's the path that you really need to go
[02:51.79]And what example you really need to show
[02:54.54]The good rep or the hood rep
[02:56.14]While she's walking in her father's footsteps
[02:58.56]Do you really know
[03:00.25]What's the path that you really need to go
[03:02.71]And what example you really need to show
[03:05.51]The good rep or the hood rep
[03:07.21]While she's walking in her father's footsteps
[03:10.04]Where did they find you?
[03:11.10]You came into this game and let this new trend blind ya
[03:13.86]A&r's was wrong to sign ya
[03:15.71]You gotta be true to this game to stay in the art
[03:18.13]But guys like you get bent apart
[03:19.35]Because you ain't got it in the heart
[03:21.03]Representing who? you better not be getting new
[03:23.71]How you gonna be guerilla when you never been up in the zoo
[03:26.55]Your whole persona's theatrical
[03:28.74]Ain't nothing bout you natural
[03:30.21]Here, show me now, how many gats you pull
[03:32.36]Cause when you talk that talk
[03:34.18]You gotta walk that walk
[03:35.31]Or leave it up to the real og's up north
[03:37.87]Cause those who dramatize, realize, and be advised
[03:41.60]You couldn't handle 3 to 5
[03:43.08]Cause many seeking fortune and fame
[03:44.80]Got caught in the game
[03:46.08]Thinking the thug status was supporting the claim
[03:48.50]All you gangsta acts y'all be guerillas on tracks
[03:51.45]But relax, cause this is just wax
[03:53.89]Tell em again
[03:54.92]You gangsta acts be guerillas on tracks
[03:57.06]But relax, cause this is just wax
[03:59.67]One more time
[04:00.59]Y'all gangsta acts y'all be guerillas on tracks
[04:02.77]But relax, this just wax, n*gga, damn
[04:05.84]Do you really know
[04:07.28]What's the path that you really need to go
[04:09.95]And what example you really need to show
[04:12.66]The good rep or the hood rep
[04:14.37]While she's walking in her father's footsteps
[04:16.74]Do you really know
[04:18.66]What's the path that you really need to go
[04:21.09]And what example you really need to show
[04:23.71]The good rep or the hood rep
[04:25.50]While she's walking in her father's footsteps
[04:28.06]Do you really know
[04:30.68]Really need to go
[04:33.39]Really need to show
[04:38.93]Do you really know
[04:41.71]Really need to go
[04:44.57]Really need to show