Long since neglected so I perfected protectin' / my intellect by strippin' my thoughts down 'til they naked / The trajectory of my story arch has been perfected / It's had so many twists, you'd think Scorsese directed / I've been a Raging Bull and bid farewell to The Departed / Stayed so true to myself that I ended up a martyr / The definitive son, never had a daughter / but I learned first-hand what it means to be a father / I know tomorrow is really just a product of the past / so I multiply yesterday by today to show my path / Four squared is sixteen, in a way lookin' back / I never thought life would get better than that / A sweet sixteen used to mean a bracket in the tourney / Now it describes the way that I communicate my journey / Live fast die young, think that I'ma need a gurney / Started on the straight and narrow, guess somebody turned me / But life's a roller coaster, sometimes when you think it's over / it's just a lull before it propels you forward / I got war stories that'll rival the Armed Forces / I been bein' all I can be and doin' more in the mornin' / than Alonzo Mourning when he was a Charlotte Hornet / and Larry Johnson and him were their small and power forwards / My pen's like an '84 Georgetown Hoya / but will it die young like Len Bias in that dorm room / I'm just like he was as he was snortin' coca' / All the talent in the world but gotta remain focused / The underdog's underdog, call me Villanova / Stay on fire smokin' ain't no need to stoke it / Spit enough heat unprovoked to burn down Wake Forest, NC State, and Oklahoma / Yea, and I spit venom like a Cobra / The same mentality, lash out or your life's over / Gettin' older, winter ain't all that makes days shorter / Time marches on whether the band's in line or out of order / Lost my grandfather and he was the best conductor / Now my highs are more sober and my lows less important / Feelin' like I need to carry that torch forward / but it's tough followin' a legend, you can ask Gary Moeller / Even tougher bein' a pallbearer, droppin' 'em off / Before you know it the ride's over / Never saw myself endurin' that rollercoaster / Now his memory's in my mind like an echo that lasts forever / I'm better than I'm feelin' shout out to my older brother / Old soul, child's eyes, the Illmatic cover / Integrity to the death of me, no time for suckas / Rest in peace, I miss you, there will never be another / And it's surreal, like the Devil made a deal / but he peeled as soon as his end of the bargain was fulfilled / I'm like a high end bottle of champagne chilled / Sophisticated but cool, intoxicate your mind still / Make it a minefield, kicked like a can from a child's heal / Depressed and starvin', would die for a Happy Meal / Self-loathin', problems get bigger than Uncle Phil / but Dr. Phil's taught him how to relationship build / 'Cause just south of the Murder Mitten / T-town, you heard us spittin' hot shit like burn victims / Surgical precision, my intuition's afflicted with a sickness / I'm the illest motherfucker livin' / Presidential villain, mixture of Clinton and Nixon / After chicks suck my dick I remind 'em to stop snitchin' / Quit bitchin', uh, that Beanie Sigel diction / Spit heat on The Truth and bully the system / Until control's relinquished and the system's the victim / I go Hard in the Paint like my name was Blake Griffin / It's Mr. never nervous and y'all Kendrick Perkins / gettin it straight in the face with conviction and purpose