From the alleyways that drip and decay,
From the muthafuckin’ sticks where the hicks play,
Sick, never safe, the East is where I was made,
The young prick comin’ to pick your safe,

Slit your face, nose broke, arm in a sling,
Armed up is my ting, but I usually don’t rock bling,
Keep it rugged, in the winters we kept huddled,
In the winters is when we would hover,

Trouble always surround, jakes chasin’ giving ya perma-frowns,
Urban wasn’t the crowd, rather rural like where’s the town?
Like literally, WHERE is the town?
Every tourist would ask, and we’d just laugh and point any way,

Misfit full of mischief, runnin’ my river like Huck Finn,
Buck been shot and the bucks been got,
Now I never flop like belly on the water’s top,
Rather emerge from the submerged land like Loch, (Ness, don’t mess!)

Pac probably woulda said I have it, just gotta keep grindin’,
The clock keeps eyeing me, bout to unload heat,
Got the glock pointed at Father time screamin’ the world is MINE,
This just sport now and I’m headin’ straight for divine,

The clientele’s different colored and the product’s immaculate,
Pine trees and dusty basements blowin’ hash bricks,
Y’all flowin’ like ya seasick, meanwhile I was born in the Atlantic,
Forged in Atlantis, been a pirate since I was six,

Been a, Been a, Pirate,
Pirate, Pirate,
Since I was six,
Since I was six
x2

Been irate since a little kid, these demons surrounded my head,
These heathens been after my bread, (so I had to be like…)
Snatchin’s my passion, bulletproof the fashion,
Get irked then I get to clashin’, pull trigger’s the action,

But hate the figure the comes after, it’s a disaster,
This judgment filled, circuitous jungle mess, (east, east)
In the balance it makes ya wanna juggle less,
Hope days dim and justice dies a quick death,

But (rise, rise), that ain’t the method, kid
Nix the negative and get on your pheonix,
Believin’ a miracle that currently hasn’t been seen,
We still ain’t living Dr. Kings dream!

What to we do we in a world that perpetually screws
The few that work tirelessly to do good and speak truth?
While the suits in shadows barely move and made million grew,
I say do the only thing you can do, you, (just be yourself, it’ll work itself, out)