Respect (Original Extended Version)-The Notorious B.I.G.

[00:31.97]Nineteen-seventy somethin', [00:33.87]B*****s I don't sweat the date [00:35.21]My moms is late so I had to plan my escape [00:38.10]Out the skins, in this world of fly girls [00:40.82]Tanqueray and Hennessy until I cold hurl [00:43.68]Ten months in this gut, [00:45.59]What the **** [00:46.50]I wish moms'd hurry up so I could get buck [00:48.88]Wild, juvenile rippin' mics and shit [00:51.53]New York New York, [00:52.67]Ready for the likes of this, uh [00:54.72]Then came the worst date, May 21st [00:57.05]2:19, that's when my momma water burst [00:59.83]No spouse in the house so she rolled herself [01:02.32]To the hospital, [01:03.49]To see if she could get a little help [01:05.50]Umbilical cord's wrapped around my neck [01:07.88]I'm seein' my death and [01:09.28]I ain't even took my first step [01:10.94]I made it out, I'm bringin' mad joy [01:13.08]The doctor looked and said, [01:14.10]"He's gonna be a Bad Boy" [01:15.97] [01:27.18]Now I'm thirteen, [01:28.21]Smokin' blunts, makin' cream [01:29.52]On the drug scene, [01:30.59]**** a football team [01:32.26]Riskin' ruptured spleens by the age of sixteen [01:34.70]Hearin' the coach scream [01:36.17]Ain't my lifetime dream, I mean [01:38.11]I wanna blow up, [01:39.11]Stack my dough up [01:40.20]So school I didn't show up, [01:41.73]It ****ed my flow up [01:42.99]Mom said that I should grow up and check myself [01:45.59]Before I wreck myself, [01:46.81]Disrespect myself [01:48.33]Put the drugs on the shelf? [01:49.77]Nah, couldn't see it [01:51.19]Scarface, King of New York, [01:52.81]I wanna be it [01:53.83]Rap was secondary, [01:55.18]Money was necessary [01:56.62]Until I got incarcerated--kinda scary [01:59.39]C74-Mark 8 set me straight [02:01.99]Not able to move behind the great steel gate [02:04.44]Time to contemplate, damn, [02:06.29]Where did I fail? [02:07.29]All the money I stacked was all the money for bail [02:09.67] [02:31.55]Ninety-four, [02:32.52]Now I explore new horizons [02:34.42]Mama smile when she see me, [02:35.97]That's surprisin' [02:37.25]Honeys is tantalizin', [02:38.58]They freak all night [02:39.64] [02:40.18]Peep duckin' cops on the creep all night [02:42.26]As I open my eyes and realizin' I changed [02:45.19]Not the same deranged child [02:46.77]Stuck up in the game [02:48.05]And to my niggas livin' street life [02:49.99]Learn to treat life to the best, [02:52.01]Put stress to rest [02:53.26]Still tote your vest man, [02:54.94]Niggas be trippin' [02:55.91]In the streets without a gat? [02:57.29]Nah, b***h you're slippin' [02:58.62]If I'm pimpin on The F with shit on my breath [03:01.36]Original hustler with the muffler on the Tec [03:04.50]Respect to the Mac's and the Ac's [03:06.70]To the freaks in the Jeeps, [03:08.31]Lick shots to my peeps