Vessel

This is the skyline of New York City as seen from Brooklyn
 And this is a part of Brooklyn that few people see anymore
 A battleground for the police and young street criminals
 If I'm gonna die you know, better it happen now than later
 Both feet on the gas, nothin' on the brake (Nothin')
 Cuffin' on an eight (Cuffin' on an eight)
 Cupboard bare, but I swear tonight gonna be something on the plate
 Director in this movie, I cast iron
 Ride with pride, like the last lion
 Put it bluntly, you hunt me, be your ass dying
 I get love, now I need that shit cash buying
 I learned to laugh always mask crying
 Not get it done young, then you're past trying (That's all I did was try)
 Feast to famine in the streets with a cannon
 Peace to my mans deceased - I'm still standing (Still standing)
 I ran in, your boys are sweeter than tamarind
 What we push is strong, like jaws of Samson
 Pitching from Yankee Stadium to yards in Camden
 I son ya'll niggas, I'm a universe
 (Nobody does a fucking thing until I do so)
 I'm The Wolf, don't make a move unless I do it first (Do it first)
 You might hear better, but there's no truer verse
 I'm one with the gutter, I'm too immersed
 Struggle's what I'm quoting, and hoping I'm through the worst
 My last dice game, I was up a grand
 Shot sound, gave my man a pound, I ain't touch his hand (We find him, and we kill him)
 Every now and then my cousin let me pump a gram
 My real family got me, I ain't need Uncle Sam
 I celebrate my blessings (Celebrate all my blessings)
 Can't catch this live, then tape the sessions
 I'm from where a eighth's a great investment (Great investment)
 Get that statement you know my place was desperate (The fucking hood, respect)
 "Get money" was the basic testament
 Pull heat on niggas you pop 'em, even they suggest it (Better shoot me nigga)
 In King's County where the queen never faked the jack
 The MAC 10 and a nine, and my ace is strapped
 I pull it out, I gotta shoot (Gotta shoot)
 If you got heart, then follow suit
 Through me the lost art's preserved (Art's preserved)
 To make my point use the harshest words (Harshest words)
 Rocky was the route I'm choosing
 You was in the house a hundred doubts I'm proving (I'm proving)
 Confident no doubt solution
 This might be God speaking, it's just my mouth is moving
 (I'm a vessel man, word)
 A spoken memorial to all my losses
 Peace to those never found and those in coffins (That's real, man)
 For cheap grains and fruits that's stale
 My niggas in the street fought tooth and nail (Tooth and nail)
 A few hammers, no proof of sale (Proof of sale)
 Do your time, never boof the scale (Fuck that, man, do your time)
 Sleep and die, learned that before Elm Street
 I'm hard to stick like a nigga that sell heat (That sell heat)
 I'm from the grittiest dungeons
 Used to count pennies, now it's fifties and hundreds
 I'm from the grittiest dungeons
 Used to count pennies, now it's fifties and hundreds (Yeah, yeah)
 To my niggas in Brownsville
 Niggas in East New York, Bed Stuy
 Them Harlem niggas man
 Know what I'm saying, them South Jamaica niggas
 Them South Bronx niggas
 Them Delita Ward niggas, for everybody man
 There's a lot of niggas in Chile I know, know what I'm saying?
 Everybody all over the fucking world man
 If you're a live nigga, it's just your music, it's for you
 I know you feel it
 Fuck that sucker shit
 Word, from the grittiest dungeons
 We're from the grittiest dungeons
 (Ka will not feel pain in quite the same way, hardship in battle, or training, or in extreme survival situation will not effect him in the same way. Exhaustion, hunger, heat and cold do not effect him. He regards these as mere irritate, like flies, that won't keep as he goes, in effect, he is almost superhuman...)