What I Know - Royce Da 5'9".mp3

[00:02.88]Unlock ya locks and keep ya keys
[00:04.89]The Pac in me got me thinkin' deeply
[00:08.04]I got to shock
[00:09.09]MC's wit my philosophies'
[00:10.95]Cause I think very deeply
[00:13.23]Where I come from, where you sweat ya pen up
[00:15.39]Young gun representer from the epicenter
[00:18.36]The microphone fienin' for a microphone
[00:21.00]Before he knew what a microphone mean
[00:23.61]Wit them four pounds and they soundin' them off
[00:26.10]And them slugs, get them thugs and the ground, get the chalk
[00:29.19]****ed hearts is dissolvin', involved i
[00:31.02]What Fara
[00:31.47]Khan and Jim
[00:32.52]Brown couldn't solve
[00:33.69]I'ma tell you what
[00:35.19]I know, what
[00:36.72]I knowIt's them boyz in the hood, it's always hard
[00:41.01]You come talkin' that trash, they'll pull ya card
[00:43.71]Who would have known, that the boy growin' up playin' them cards
[00:46.44]Will soon know the music he wrote, it was so true
[00:49.53]Who could raise me, after
[00:50.88]I been amazed by
[00:51.78]DreAnd N.W.
[00:53.31]A. and you couldn't pay me
[00:54.45]To back the staff for free,
[00:56.52]I will believe
[00:57.39]It ain't nothin' shady in the aftermath
[00:59.88]Perhaps when you unwrappin' the plastic
[01:01.89]You respect whatever you hear and ya styles is growin'
[01:05.13]Them guys is clonin', them pioneers
[01:07.02]Rappers wanna be classic, like they
[01:08.64]Clef, Pras, and
[01:09.48]WarrenI'ma tell you what
[01:12.27]I know, what
[01:15.27]I know Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me
[01:19.41]It's statements like that made me gauge, white, black, hate
[01:22.65]To make me say,
[01:23.82]I like when they fight back, they
[01:25.62]Me and rap,
[01:26.97]I vent myself
[01:28.02]Leanin' back, not knowin' that
[01:29.55]I meant myself
[01:31.02]A lesson comin' fast, you dudes better catch it
[01:33.36]Whenever the future answers ya questions from the past
[01:36.21]And hold that,
[01:37.05]I'm spillin' these cold raps'
[01:38.37]Cause I am a throwback, you feelin' the soldier
[01:41.40]And keep tryin', to keep up wit the kind of guy
[01:43.44]That'll play you until they fatally say that the game's over
[01:46.35]I'ma tell you what
[01:46.92]I know, what
[01:51.42]I knowOh my
[01:51.72]God, I destroy cities like the
[01:53.58]BlobGoin' from city to city, seein' who
[01:55.92]I can robGoin' from makin' them poems up, in my garage
[01:59.16]Then goin' on major tours wit, me and my squad
[02:02.22]Goin' from listenin' to
[02:03.30]Reggie, to meeting him
[02:04.29]Wit my palms sweaty, to him, telling me
[02:06.33]I'm deadly
[02:07.41]Goin' from likin', to spray the club after a night
[02:09.87]That didn't go my way, to plug a writin' for
[02:11.70]DreYou damn right
[02:13.32]I was raised, the amazin' handwritin'
[02:15.42]On the same page, that you can't type on
[02:17.64]So I black out, the usual same way
[02:20.10]The old fashion rap, 'til it's no lights on
[02:23.46]I'ma tell you what
[02:24.18]I know, what
[02:24.90]I know