1996-Benny the Butcher

[00:25.352]Yo,if it don't affect us we never paid much attention [00:28.147]We busy,stuck in our ways,still slaves of tradition [00:31.674]Boys to men quick cause we was raised in the system [00:34.809]Worshippin false Gods from a made up religion [00:37.917]Most of my close friends caught felonies in they teens [00:41.104]You either in or out,there's never no inbetween [00:44.108]Never wanted much,just longevity for the team [00:47.191]Could have went to(?),funny my speciality was the fiends [00:50.351]Gold on my neck,that's what they expect from us,we kings [00:53.486]Got ya bitch for a pet,she just wanted to please [00:56.882]When she around,we don't talk checks,numbers and things [00:59.912]That's family business,we don't address none 'til she leave [01:02.942]Uhh,when you a hustla,ain't nothin ever out of reach [01:07.018]When I count a milli up that's when I'ma sleep [01:10.022]Until then I got a seat for who got it cheap [01:12.895]I heard they 21 in Atlanta just like [01:15.037]Dominique Wilkins,ahh [01:17.676]Sometimes friends turn to foes [01:20.497]I can make halves turn to wholes [01:23.475]I pray my ideas turn to goals [01:26.557]These the confessions of a burnin soul [01:29.770]The mirror tell me that I'm turnin old [01:32.252]Stress on me,the street shit done turned us cold [01:35.387]Uhh,movin shit,I had to earn a role [01:38.391]These the confessions of A,these the confessions of A [01:41.212]Ahh,you won't(?) the realest when I'm not in the room [01:44.817]My mother always told me not to assume(real shit) [01:48.134]And I got this far abidin the rules [01:50.616]A block with a groove,a Glock,pot and spoon [01:53.489]Uhh,I know she worried when I don't call her for weeks [01:56.546]Caught in the streets,I think about her fallin asleep [01:59.707]Her oldest dead,her youngest locked up callin to speak [02:02.737]She taught it to me,so she know,it's part of the streets [02:06.054]Fatherless seeds,grow up to be robbers and thieves [02:09.764]Blood thirsty killers with a carnivorous greed [02:12.454]Street chronicles,we honorable thieves [02:14.753]Started off coppin coke,hope we don't end up gettin conjugal V's [02:18.828]Uhh,real shit,you already know what I'm into [02:23.164]Real things that's what real men do [02:25.907]I put a mask on my face if my rent due [02:29.147]I'm just happy I don't look like what I've been through,uhh [02:33.378]Sometimes friends turn to foes [02:36.356]I can make halves turn to wholes [02:39.308]I pray my ideas turn to goals [02:42.338]These the confessions of a burnin soul [02:45.656]The mirror tell me that I'm turnin old [02:48.190]Stress on me,the street shit done turned us cold [02:51.507]Uhh,movin shit,I had to earn a role [02:54.511]These the confessions of A,these the confessions of A