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workin', he put the family first\n  Chicago Saturdays in the park and Sundays at church\n  Kept me from off the corner where Stones and GDs was warrin'\n  And Kings and BDs and VLs all had dreams of bein' Jordan\n  Even dope fiends was scorin', swish, tryna be like Mike\n  Shootin' through that baseline in their veins tryna reach that height\n  I was a little rockstar, dressed up like Jimi Hendrix\n  In Hyde park in the good part in the hood like Hemi engines\n  Teachers didn't see my vision, had me in IEPs\n  Kicked out of kindergarten, they didn't know that I was me\n  Tattooed my tears, wrote my story in my skin\n  Because even as a boy I always knew I'd be the man\n\n  In my dreams (In my dreams)\n  I saw it in my sleep (yeah)\n  The city will be mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine\n  Memories\n  On 47th street (yeah)\n  Sebastian got me high\n  One day it will be mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine\n\n  At age 12 I learned the difference between white and black\n  Police pulled me off of my bike, I landed on my back\n  Back to reality, oops, a victim of gravity\n  Where they pull you down and keep you there\n  Dependin' on how you keep your hair\n  Now it's fuck 'em up and bumpin nothin' but NWA\n  Smokin' a 7 or an 8th, way before 7th grade\n  My classmates sellin' yay\n  Sebastian got me high that first time\n  In the back of an abandoned truck by Webster Place\n  Couldn't feel my face\n  Sprayin' paint to see my name on trains, try not to catch a case\n  Age 13 at Cam granny house, watchin' him shoot up the Ace\n  He took the needle out and waved it in my face\n  If I ain't tell that boy, \"Be easy, dog,\" I coulda died of AIDS\n  I started realizin' my talents 'bout the time I was 15\n  Tryna take over the world like Pinky and the Brain\n  Sellin' kush and hittin' stains, still in True Religion jeans\n  16, I was shinin' just like a Stanley Kubrick scene\n  Sneakin' into Lollapalooza, I fell off of that bridge\n  15,000 volts went through my elbow, fell over 30 feet\n  The doctor said I should be dead, still alive and still ain't scared\n  In the hospital bed, writin' these rhymes in my head\n\n  In my dreams (In my dreams)\n  I saw it in my sleep (yeah)\n  The city will be mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine\n  Memories\n  On 47th street (yeah)\n  Sebastian got me high\n  One day it will be mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine\n\n  In a land of desperation we often turn to self medication as a coping mechanism.\n  Some make a living as hood pharmacists while some just inhale to remove them from hell.\n  I watched from the window of a gated community until I grew old enough there was no immunity from allure of the life\n"}]