I was like I pay homage to the old schoolnYou know due credit to all the niggaz out there before menLike you know what Im sayin? That paved the waynTo hold this microphone Im holdin right nownWe like young veterans know what Im sayin?nSo it's like we came we come in the game around the BiggiesnAnd the fuckin Jay-Zs and the 2Pacs and shit... you know Im sayin?nnnIt all started with PremenBack in 91 fresh on the scenenMad Mob was the team of our Red Hook dreamnWe used to gun sling to get CREAM off of crack fiendsnIn the hallway rollin weed the sunflower seedsnThirteen when I lost my momsnFourteen I got locked with Twin we when to Spafford thennFifteen they took one of my men Big GlennIn the building back then my pain begannTraybag had the fame of the pen he must of seen I could winnI used to breakdance the mad little spinsnSo he taught me and Sunny to writenUp in my lab late nights rollin dice him Supreme and MikenWe was live and direct to Da Last FuturenFor my first rhyme and now 4th my producernHad a style that my projects wasnt used tonStarted hangin with them drug dealers and them boostersnUp in John J rappin in the school hallwaynI got mad ass, even ask Foxy and GavnHad the hood on smash then I linked with BazznWe used to build and front dazz about fuckin with WunMe and 7th did Livin In HellnPressed up it independent not knowin if a record'd would sellnRae and Ghost made Heaven & Hell while we was hearin itnMeanwhile we thinkin it was all coincidencenMental Combat the b-side the style battle rapnI was rated X next heard Meth vs ChefnNot to notice we was snake bittennSunz of Man did this track with the RZA As It Was WrittennAnd then Nas came out with It Was WrittennSame time Verbal Intercourse started hittinnnnBasically I see it like you know?nLike when we reflect light you know Im sayin?nI expected to shine you know Im sayin?nSo what it is is like a reflection of what we did, know Im sayin?nSo like those was like little seeds of shit that we didnWe planted and they didn't even know that we was plantinnYou know this beautful harvestnnI see it me and Preme back young enoughnI see itnnIt all began at the age of sixteennMe and my brothers Rah and Sha had a million dollar schemenRunnin with Kline at the time we was gettin that CREAMnGoin hard under the buildings with Black and SupremenWhen the scheme failed a teen went to jail Rah got murderednI was facin three to nine when the jury read the verdictnOn trial for a hundred and forty-four crack vialsnSuited up in court wiz pregnant with my first childnBeat the case, felt rap and started pursuin my dreamnI was the nicest in the hood journey brought me the CREAMnThe first song I recorded was Make it or Die TryingnIn 91 way before Get Rich or Die TryingnWe formed the Mad Mob I filmed Party With a TecnIn all my videos I always rocked a bulletproof vestnOf course my Pops Uncle Mookie got shot in the deadnAnd Kline Sr and Supreme just got locked in the fedsnThe late eighties was Hades hip-hop save a nigganGot discovered by the RZA debuted with GravediggaznPlatinum out the gate for my first verse on DiarynNumber one on Hot 9 for three weeks the world admired menToured the Holy West with the Clan was well respectednMe and Priest got a demo deal with Atlantic RecordsnWe both had a plan to introduce the famnWe featured Prodigal and Razah the birth of the Sunz of MannRae and Ghost gave my style to the enemynI left the situation signed a contract with PenaltynAfter Crime Saga and Death be the PenaltynI left the label released Street Parables independentlynWas crowned the underground king of Europe for my shownBig Pun told me Crime Saga inspired his flownIn 96 I told Big Lez Im God Son on RapCitynIn 98 Nas tatted the shit across his bellynnnThey knew what they was doin, likenWe wanted to be different, that's what made us who we wasnKnow what Im sayin? We didnt wanna do the shit that the program said to donKnow Im sayin'? So we went against the systemnEverybody went with the systemnThat's what brought sunz of man together as a groupnEvery last individual spit some intellectual street shitnSome deep true poetic project crazy shit