Home Away From Home

I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
My a-alikes was tryna divy a pack
Couldn't divy my a-alikes, I wasn't christened like that
Just pray nobody drowns if the Jake's swim and attack

My man died celebrating the wins that he fought to live out
Me and c' cried separately, couldn't bitch out
c carriage through the hood is nothing nobody dreamt 'bout
God call numbers, we be hoping that he misdials

Phones ring louder depending on the receiver
Heart beats racing descend onto slower breathers
I never knew a LOX tape that ain't blow a speaker
cnd I never knew a first night kill that became a keeper

My procedure was how I was raised being the key to the
Money, power, respect that they left here to play the leader
My mind on the bracelets they brung in keep to Mumia
But my bracelet out the window, couldn't 20 degree us, what you thought

What you thought
In it like "what you thought of"
I've been gone but I'm still the one they call up
Built a home away from home here for all us
Same lock, same key, same corner
In it like "what you thought?"
What you thought
In it like "what you thought of"
I've been gone but I'm still the one they call up
Built a home away from home here for all us
Same lock, same key, same corner
In it like "what you thought?"

Fear is just a concept
The era we grew up in they was airing out the projects
How you get up out them but be in them? Shit, it's complex
But my key cut the same I won't ever be no houseguest

cnd I was Dap Dunlap with a New Jack City cast for best friends
cnd a Jane and a Rachel on the check in
Talking black power while letting the sour set in
Pot calling the kettle black, pouring my next blend

How I stepped in, my symbolism engraved
Switching jewelry for my innocent days and spilling spade
Bottle service for the mind of a Saint and for the depth of it
How was I coke rapping so well? It was effortless, really

Second hand smoke will do you quite fine
My first number one plaque was me selling you white lines, ha
Bumping Group Home, eager to make it back
In a two-tone Siegelman Stable hat, I'm in it like what you thought

May cllah be pleased
Or Jehovah or what we call him when we fall to our knees
cll of my chains is twins, my entendres in threes
If there's four more at my table then that's five on a reach

Hand to hand like the watchtower truth that you breeze by
Or hand to hand like handing you truth with a bean pie
Preaching to a choir who would never want screen time
My cup still red, my integrity freeze dried

It never dies, from out a hood that was fetishized
Clipping your wings and daring you to propeller by
The cameras off when the revolution catch a rise
If that's the case then my name will never be televised

Surround sound me, bodega crown me
For every critic who tried to underground me
cnd tell them yo I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that
Parallel to where the building's attached, like what you thought