Respect (Original Extended Version) - The Notorious B.I.G..mp3

[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"
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[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