Rain Dance (Phase 1 Intro)

Flash back seen no future in my past acts
 Back strap fit me looser, had no pack packed
 Bad stats at my school, mom and dad spazzed
 So whats a youngin' to do when cops flash badge
 I mean I always had a knack for rap
 Illmatic, Ready to Die, et cetera tracks
 Feel trapped, put on a track, you're feeling relaxed
 I just wanna do the same shit with my craft
 Through my raps, niggas thought we born winning
 When I was raised up in a graveyard for dreamin'
 My hood talk street business, ain't no physics
 Do drugs, bust guns and bring killings
 Give a nigga that cold feeling
 School sucked, most days was gon' miss it
 Screwed up, too fucked to stay with it
 Fool's luck, how I ain't end up finished
 With age I learned facts, like everything got a catch
 Especially when you're black, young with the world on your back
 [?] clouded by smoke on the track
 Got it by Lucifer, Lucy's grip on my thoughts on the loose leaf
 I do my drugs with the goonies, yell at a coffin will suit me
 Now or later meet the maker, if that karma pursue me
 Went to church, just to search, no reality found
 Ghost burnt in my spirit, holy water dissolve them
 Down in the gutter, straight guns and butter
 Good mother tried to save me and my brother
 Hood won us, had plans to take us under
 Street lovers, can't take the hood from us
 You see? That's what made a nigga me
 Part is in the heavens, but part in these streets
 Part a living legend, but part is still weak
 Though I know knowledge is part what I seek
 Hennesy sipping, cripping since I was a teen
 Nigga still a street hitter, psychedelics had me see bigger
 Mister, wanna make it past next semester
 Try to test us, but it's straight A's in my life lessons
 Life threatened living in the hood, cause the odds against us
 Had to get up every single morning, hear my father's lectures
 Mom pressure kept a strong home for us [?]
 Too pretentious, still I felt alone, no one I could vent to
 No leaving, pleasure seeking, I needed
 Drug feeling, Love fiending, dark season
 Blow teaching from my peers was my reason
 Til I learned my heart was all I needed
 Around some friends that's up, could not tell
 Now I found myself, but I'm still needing help
 Now I swim to deep end, like Michael Phelps
 From the sea, the sun raise out 'til I melt
 Puffing on that Jane in the staircase
 Never was at home, always had my momma scared straight
 Selling all my clothes, just so I could buy some red bape
 Had to hold my own, cop O's and used to sell eighths
 Felt like I was chose, don't know if I was too baked
 But I know my soul was born to do some cool thangs
 Stay up on my toes until that fat fool sang
 Had to chase my goals in hopes to see a new day, Lord
 A young man dealing with old depression
 Drugs inside of my system, was looking for intervention
 Love inside of my spirit was buried, LS some treasure
 Pieced together some lessons that helped me sharpen my weapons
 Uh, my mind sharp, divine thoughts, I blast off
 Beyond stars it's so lost that God fall
 Was reborn with wings, but also two horns
 The two side duality made a new form