Sometimes because of jealousy and the intent to demise   Certain factions have to be forbidden or destroyed   Fire has to be sent to the poisoned forest   With the root of fresh trees planted elsewhere      Only then will you obtain a wilderness   That cannot be penetrated, petrified family tree      See what started as a family forest   Got cut to a family tree with the limbs   And the leaves looking' at the world for answers   The world points to the sun and the sun says      The answers in me, so I search through the darkness   Can't find the key so we locked in the land of the lost   Lord, please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me   So now we choose the roots, so we can plant new trees      Many minds always meet with pens and sheets   Close my eyes, think what next on my rhymes   See this face in ink, I'm havin' visions of wisdom   Dreamin' 'bout my own ending      Am I seein' death as freedom and livin' as prison   My son didn't have a daddy to shape him so   God bless him with a daddy to save him   Yeah I raise him and pay some attention      He talked and he listened to reach him and teach him   Before I'm gone from existence   Teach him 'bout the foes, the hos and all opponents   Those that always talk 'bout love but never showed it      Those who had the chances to stand and always blowed it   Those that set you up by the hour to steal your moment   Pac the word is you ain't there so fuck the rumor   I'll get a pound of that shit from Bermuda      And meet you in Cuba   Fucked up on Larusa no doubt, I know the locale   If they gotta born you, I'm gonna mourne you 'til I join you      See what started as a family forest   Got cut to a family tree with the limbs   And the leaves looking' at the world for answers   The world points to the sun and the sun says      The answers in me, so I search through the darkness   Can't find the key so we locked in the land of the lost   Lord, please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me   So now we choose the roots, so we can plant new trees      Uhh and now I know I got some family   Who missed me from the heart, forever we're apart   Just because I'm nothin' and you abuse me and use me   Now you wanna try to come bruise me      And even though maybe were in there   Farther than it once was I know family don't always   Mean that they blood 'cause some people just   Don't give a nigga what some people tried to use my name      So all the fat we had to cut and I'm still   Walking with my six amp strut   Urban eyes see through camouflage   And now I know who's butt      So when I sent you tried to play me   All of a sudden now I'm shady   Maybe deep down in my heart   Never trust you from the start      Never hoped you'd be my homie, don't come 'round my way   And if we never speak again, it's got to be that way   This millennium, we'll be spankin' your heiny   Remind thee naughty invented family of the 90's      See what started as a family forest   Got cut to a family tree with the limbs   And the leaves looking' at the world for answers   The world points to the sun and the sun says      The answers in me, so I search through the darkness   Can't find the key so we locked in the land of the lost   Lord, please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me   So now we choose the roots, so we can plant new trees      Life doesn't end when the sweat dries   A time when a nickle cost a dollar   When you rise your chest dies   My dynasty many fear it cos' I'm near it      Ancient Egyptian scriptures fitted in through hyroglyphics   Motherfuckers try to touch my mental state   Niggas smile up in your face and then they infiltrate   So it seems nowadays that the only plan      To get my people help my people get a load of land   And Im'ma see it if I have to kill some shit   To make my family tree a motherfucking wilderness   See a black man standin' on the promised land      Since they broke every promise I devised a plan this   Black this and black that crap is gettin' touchy   Any black hat that cross my path, I call him lucky   Those who turn. they back with they fears      And try to before they can see us   They gonna need us sweet Jesus      See what started as a family forest   Got cut to a family tree with the limbs   And the leaves looking' at the world for answers   The world points to the sun and the sun says      The answers in me, so I search through the darkness   Can't find the key so we locked in the land of the lost   Lord, please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me   So now we choose the roots, so we can plant new trees      See what started as a family forest   Got cut to a family tree with the limbs   And the leaves looking' at the world for answers   The world points to the sun and the sun says      The answers in me, so I search through the darkness   Can't find the key so we locked in the land of the lost   Lord, please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me   So now we choose the roots, so we can plant new trees