Some cats grow by the laws of the wild   Some learn slower and lag in the mud   Some stand up in defense of a style   Some let the big dogs eat them up   At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound   At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down      [Aesop Rock]   Now Benny was a New York City graf kingpin   Five Borough fame guaranteed to itch pigskin   Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, juxed an undercover   When they asked him what he pled he said, "You're fuckin' up my colors!"      [Mr. Lif]   Okay, Jose's working in the slaughterhouse   Said he's living in the hood, but he wants to get his daughter out   Slipped off a ledge, and fell into a machine   Another dead immigrant, that's the American Dream      [Aesop Rock]   Miss Molly, helpless, made a penny with a data entry temp gig   Overqualified with the rent stick   Red brick bash where the text print green   Like, "I entered my data right into your screen"      [Mr. Lif]   Jane went insane, she's an anchorwoman   Sick of pushing skewed information   And abusing the nation   Had a few options:   Either jump or run   Quit or cold raise hell, waving a gun   Time for C-H-A-N-G-E   Held a knife to the VP on TV   She demanded that the format be expanded   Beyond fair, everybody clear, understand it?      [Aesop Rock]   Billy was a coke fiend   [Mr. Lif]   Maggie was a cop   [Aesop Rock]   For the dope he stole cream   [Mr. Lif]   She patroled the block   [Aesop Rock]   Banking off his old scheme   [Mr. Lif]   She recognized his plot   [Aesop Rock]   He thought he was home free   [Mr. Lif]   She knew that he was locked   [Aesop Rock]   Now it's off to the jail in a blue squad car   [Mr. Lif]   She pocketed the crack before they got far   [Aesop Rock]   Billy watches Maggy from behind steel bars   Like "Where the crack went?"   [Mr. Lif]   "I'ma smoke it tomorrah"      [Aesop Rock]   They call him Larry Luck   Blackjack, big spender   He was married once   Till he bet her ring finger   Seen him leaving Las Vegas   With a pick up truck, diamond   Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece   Less than what he came with   hitched to the crib found nickels in the couch   Hitched back to the casino within an hour   Said "I'm here to make a dollar out of fifteen cents"   And was immediately shot to his death over debts      [Mr. Lif]   As Colin died, his mother cried   Then the EMS arrived   Said that he could be revived but they lied   Afterlife realized. Water from the skies   Washes pain from her eyes so her hopes could rise      [Aesop Rock]   Now, J.J. punch drunk, acts like a dumb fuck   Bum touched girls looking young enough to thumb suck   One sought the light thought it right to rat him out   Now gets raped by Aryans in the big house (OUCH!)      [Mr. Lif]   Ted did 20 years for rolling some weed   Although he used to snort coke and dabble with speed   Welcome home, homie, here's a blunt with hash   They said you know the rules, bitch, take two and pass      Some cats grow by the laws of the wild   Some learn slower and lag in the mud   Some stand up in defense of a style   Some let the big dogs eat them up   At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound   At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down      [Aesop Rock]   Jack for Jill   Jill won't Jack will   Jill didn't, then did it   Jack Fell   No cellophane secrets   But yeah I guess you sensed bumps in the tar   No cell.   But hell, jumped the bar so well   pardoned your partners bail and dipped.   I'm New York harbor tail   of a snail   ripped   Sort of stuck on purpose for the love of birth place   But would have carried you home inside of my teeth anyday   Turns out   I wasn't Master Plan anyway.   He holds no grudge   holds his tongue.   While.   Same one she used to hold in both smiles.   Dagger that instinctual lash out if it killed me   so you could ride off into the sun,   Silly,    guilt free.   One year passed.   The tables wobbling   and you're hollering   back   sipping the fits   you skipped   when shit   cracked   I never missed it.   Now the long-hall   Bullshit kit's   kicked into the same shoe box   with the flips and lipstick.   I'll love you forever   'cause you'll know me better.   For the record   at one time would've married you in a second.   But killed the rekindling dreams   but navigate the friendship or else   by the time the stress   air out wheel both be dead   and friendless.