I Never Ask For Nothin'

Used To Rock A Throwback Ballin On The Corner, Now I Rock Tailored Suit Lookin' Like A Owner.

I Noticed That Difference Early On, Like If You Were Successful In Rock 'n' Roll, That Was A Really Bad Thing, You Almost Had To Hide It. You Had These Guys Selling 200 Million Records With Dirty T-shirts On. I Was Like, 'come On, Man. Come On. We Know You're Successful.' Hip-hop Is More About Attaining Wealth. People Respect Success. They Respect Big. They Don't Even Have To Like Your Music. If You're Big Enough, People Are Drawn To You.

Never Prayed To God, I Prayed To Gotti, That's Right It's Wicked, That's Life I Live It. Ain't Askin' For Forgiveness For My Sins. I Gotta Get My Soul Right, I Gotta Get These Devils Out My Life. Lord Forgive Him, He Got Them Dark Forces In. Connected To The High Power. 666. I Can Introduce You To Evil.

I Jack, I Rob, I Sin. Aw Man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'cept When I Run Base, I Dodge The Pen

My Life After Childhood Has Two Main Stories: The Story Of The Hustler And The Story Of The Rapper, And The Two Overlap As Much As They Diverge. I Was On The Streets For More Than Half Of My Life From The Time I Was Thirteen Years Old. People Sometimes Say That Now I'm So Far Away From That Life - Now That I've Got Businesses And Grammys And Magazine Covers - That I Have No Right To Rap About It. But How Distant Is The Story Of Your Own Life Ever Going To Be? The Feelings I Had During That Part Of My Life Were Burned Into Me Like A Brand. It Was Life During Wartime.