Am I Wrong for Trying (The Prelude)

Yo

Yo

The brother's back with past tense

Fought my way back and outlasted death

Ashes from earth, everlasting mental birth

Y'all thought Kevlar would come inaccurate?

Bar none

Eternally I progress, by no means backwards

This right here is for the masses, the classic

This wins a life Oscar without even acting

I see you right now, you reading the credits

Me being executive, written, produced then arranged by the one and

Only M-I, describing the lives of my people and how to survive

I try to reach you with visions of me

Revisit the People's Army and how pops and moms charmed me

Even though marijuana smoke drifted, gifts were still being

Given and a vision sound was spinning throughout the house

Real loud, neighbors come to clock, please turn it down

Gs we receive, not welfare

Dope fiends sold our dog to get lifted on the fourth

He disappeared, never heard no more

My teacher was experienced, we reminisce on friends we lost

Stunt **** on our way, avoiding the laws

Cause and effect, I infect the cause with claws

Made it to 25, damn we adults, pause

Born in '77, truth crunched the soil will rise again and again

This be the beginning of the end and where the end begins

The past is my memory of walking wind

Lungs is pumped, I breathe in

I'm leaking my soul

Breathing vocab to feel the future unfold

Any locale will feel this

Many want their mind and heart to reach us

Yo, I found a pinnacle with the flow, the oracle didn't know

I been there, standing in your Adidas

I gotta be there for my family

Who else gonna feed us?

Add me to the three that spoke from the cradle

I do this for the angels, brothers on the corner clutching a bottle

I spit ebonics to represent my forefathers, the land that God

And boys died in, the balcony where King Soul arrives from

Through the eyes of the family that witnessed the murder

Of Malcolm, I do this for all y'all, the Kevlar Kid

I do this for all y'all, the Kevlar Kid

Battle for the cause, it's the revolution

Emphatically yours, the Kevlar Kid raise a fist

The king is going home to get his throne

From the root to the fruit, that's where everything started at

This is God's act and you a part of, uh, of it

This is, uh, no Hollywood set, this is real

Hollywood come in, take these kind of scenes and set

Them up, have somebody in the movies playing his life

This is real

We don't pick up a script, but we go through it with feeling