Do U Really Know?

Here's a little food for thought

As I tell it, cause if it happened to this cat

Then it can happen to you

Do the knowledge






I was sittin' outside double parked after dark

I think it was the corner of Nostrand and St. Mark

That's when this stray cat walked up to me

Now I was sure he would be

But you woulda thought he'd know me

Tellin' his life story to me

He said '
Yo Kane', since way back in his life

Days of Rappers Delight, yo he was after the hype

He rocked the Kangols, Adidas when Run and them had that spot

When I came out, he had a flat-top

And when Naughty came out, a couple years ago

He even tried the braids up in his hair, but they ain't hear him tho

Vexed and down, you know next he found

Heavy D was blowing up, so then he tried to gain extra pounds

No thanks to that, they ranked him wack

Only thing that's left to do, was to go gangsta rap

So now he rhyme about the keys being sold

The G's being fold, the trees being rolled

Now sure he should, he started acting like he from the hood

Talking thug game and had his record sales doing good

And so now, you on the road to riches

Referring to the womankind as hoes and bitches

Yeah, you the man now because you rap different

But you got your 7 year old daughter listenin'

The twist begin

When that the image you projecting

It starts to reflecting on your shorty cause she checking






Do you really know

What's the path that you really need to go

And what example you really need to show

The good rep or the hood rep

While she's walking in her father's footsteps






It be that excess drama, wonder rhymer

That could make one rapper, convert to, gun clapper

That acting buckwild, boy you know that ain't your style

Plus your thug profile is now reflecting on your child

You thinking that it couldn't happen

But then it happen

And now you're rappin, came back to haunt you

Because you want to

Be in her face puffin' li with your crew

You even let her take a sip or two upon your brew

Instead of tryin to shed light, to keep her head right

So that she wouldn't do the things that the next kid might

Oh now you never did consider tho

Your kid could go

Trying to do the things she saw you do up in your video

You went upstairs thinking that she wasn't able

Slipping, left your Glock sittin' pon the coffee table

So as you hang, with your gang, doin your thang

BLOWE! unexpectedly to your ears the shot rang

Came down, never thinking that you'd see what you saw

Right there, layin in blood across your livin room floor

So now, as you sit in grief, total disbelief

Cause everything that ever mattered

To you is all shattered

Instead of concentratin' heavily on what your rep be

You should have been thankful for your child like Cheryl Pepsi

Cause if you would have stayed aware

To whose in your care

She wouldn't be no casualty to your career"











Where did they find you?

You came into this game and let this new trend blind ya

A&R's was wrong to sign ya

You gotta be true to this game to stay in the art

But guys like you get bent apart

Because you ain't got it in the heart

Representing who? you better not be getting new

How you gonna be guerilla when you never been up in the zoo

Your whole persona's theatrical

Ain't nothing bout you natural

Here, show me now, how many gats you pull

Cause when you talk that talk

You gotta walk that walk

Or leave it up to the real OG's up North

Cause those who dramatize, realize, and be advised

You couldn't handle 3 to 5

Cause many seeking fortune and fame

Got caught in the game

Thinking the thug status was supporting the claim

All you gangsta acts y'all be guerillas on tracks

But relax, cause this is just wax

Tell em again

You gangsta acts be guerillas on tracks

But relax, cause this is just wax

One more time

Y'all gangsta acts y'all be guerillas on tracks

But relax, this just wax, nigga, damn