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Yo, I don't know where to start,
Uh check it out, music is - my total
existence dawg straight up,
Everything in my life
revolves around music,
It's like. you can't get a
relationship 'cuz...
I'm still with. my first love which is music,
You know what I'm sayin'? fo 'real,
The reason I'm here is. is J.Dilla just like that peace,
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Yea, yea
It started with rhythms I heard listenin' to the wall,
The bouncin' of basketballs on playgrounds an' all,
The empty bottles that's hollow,
wind blowin' inside 'em,
The flow and the rhymin' got my
alignment to a Science,
Mixin' with my moms in the kitchen
them spoons rattlin',
Pots and pans faucet water pourin'
tunes managin',
To come from all the fussin'
and ramblin'
What I noticed was - pure music
untampered with,
By things show biz does; older
thugs showed us stuff,
Like how to hold a plug,
juice from the street light,
It almost could have blowed us up,
Crates of records; great sessions
had the whole hood jammin',
Large speakers fresh made; smell
the wood sandin',
Father did his blues smooth
legendary jazz man,
Saw his wife secondary to
his true passion,
Started with my crew rappin' new
jacks in '82,
Never looked back now look what
it changed me to. music.
We gotta believe the future,
We gotta believe the past,
We gotta believe in more,
Didn't know that we haaave,
We gotta believe each other,
We gotta open up our minds,
Cause music is for liiife.
for life
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Uh, what's the difference
between me and you?
It's I'ma real kind show this
rap shit I'd really do it,
My whole life man is really music,
Through my base line I'm livin'
through it,
Another expression of life
I couldn't live without,
I like my music pure - not
watered down,
Damn! it felt good to fulfill the dreams
of gettin' out the hood,
Kept me busy gave ma a chance
to stop sellin' drugs,
Spinnin' time in the basement
kept me from actin' up,
Zonin' out; wishing Dre
could check it out,
I'm here now I can't believe
it; proof in the Puddin',
Everything happened for a reason,
Through this music I'm
able to feed the family,
When I'm stressed out
it's my sanity,
It's a life style all in the streets
and in Hollywood,
Music in my DNA - it's
my livelihood. music.
We gotta believe the children,
We gotta believe in hope,
We gotta believe in more,
Didn't know that we'd know,
See we gotta believe each other,
We gotta open up our minds,
Cause music is for liiife. for life
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Keep the music alive,
The good and the strong survive,
I closed my eyes and imagined
I was Jackson Five,
Randy and Michael goin'
through life cycle,
Music alive leader - let life go
So vital to a youngster comin' up
amongst street hustlers
The big be the toucher's since
such a special place
Givin' the ghetto a taste of what
freedom is like,
I reached a point in my life where I
was needin' the mic',
No second guessin' self- expression an' lessons learned,
Agression became sessions
where sessions burned,
Put my soul in to it,
now my feet is firm,
And the game - where name
is hard to earn,
And hot cat's careers get scarred
and burned through the years,
mine took a godly turn,
this is the story of my life here
trapped in a verse,
No matter money or the movies
- music is first, yea.
We gotta believe the future,
We gotta believe the past,
We gotta believe in more,
didn't know that we had it,
We gotta believe each other,
We gotta open up our minds,
cause music is for
liiife. for li- i- ife,
So we gotta believe the children,
We gotta believe in hope,
We gotta believe in more than all we knoow,
So we gotta believe each other,
We gotta open up our minds,
Cause music is
for liiiife.