It's a new day in the rap game!   Nobody sells records but Shyne Po!     [Verse 1]   My life had it's ups and downs, but I don't regret nothin'   I had the whole tri-state high, nigga I ain't frontin'   at Fifteen I sold my first bag of dope   used to stick Dominicans, burner under the coat   gettin' like 15 grams, a half a Ki   at Fifteen man, a nigga just glad to be   gettin' some shorts, me and my Man from a Hundred and Fifth   he knew some Dominican niggas that wanted a clique   to hold 'em down, shoot niggas in the head   throw 'em out windows if they were late with the bread   basically I'm enforcin'   around heavy coke, when nobody's lookin' I'd be dippin' in the portion   they wasn't missin' it   so I got my hustle on the side, flippin' it   sellin' like 500 bottles and Nicks, started minor   but I always knew I'd turn a big apple into cider.      Niggas...niggas just ain't built like me...   stand up niggas...since 15   I been servin' fiends and loadin' magazines...   takin' shots..burnin' blocks..   this ain't no fuckin' rap.      [Verse 2]   Everything was everything 'till my Man got pinched   he had a shoot-out with the cops in front of the precinct   other than that, I went from enforcer to movin' product, straight white   powder now, gettin' it   the hardest nigga in the street   my first car was a 190 Benz with Louie Vaton seats   buyin' out the bar at the rooftop   I had a few spots   one called the jukebox   where I was gettin' like 50 a brick   2 or 3 bricks a day, makin' mothafuckas sick   my Cousin Ron a crook from the Brook was torchin'   any niggas whisperin' or talkin' 'bout extortion   shit was goin' right and only one better   when I got my Italian connect, hittin' me with pure Heroin   moved to 116th, started seein' real dinero then   empire buildin', the shit was takin' flight   had my bitches cuttin' up like 10 Ki's a night   mixin' lactose, Bonita, and Quenii   I was the first Black nigga with mafia ties   leased my soul to the Devil with the option to buy.   Yo..bangin' for real..   niggas is thinkin' rap, I'm thinkin' laundromat..   we washin' this money...   you think this shit is about rhymes...   you'll find yourself under the fuckin' ground...you know?..   we get low when the Feds is in town..   this is justice..   we playin' the pop charts and still lettin' them things pop off...      [Verse 3]   At 21 I was a legend, had the game transformed   controllin' manufacturin' and distribution of Heron   throughout the tri-state, high stakes   I spent Hundreds of Thou's out of paper bags   you couldn't name a car I ain't have   every minute new tags   Seven series to the Five-Sixty drop nigga   I was givin' away blocks nigga   fast cars, fast money, slow deaths   this things of ours   had me doin' a hundred miles an hour   through the City evadin' the Feds   started this shit called the counsel and we all made a pledge   not to fuck each others bitches   or touch each others riches   on top or broke   never break this oath   every nigga in the counsel was a boss   we used to put coke on our dick and make bitches suck it off   it was alright 'till I got caught   charged with an Eight-Forty-Eight   behind Marion steel gates   niggas started shittin', actin' bizarre   drivin' my cars, fuckin' my broads, breakin' the laws   same niggas I took care of and got money wit' was on some funny shit   if I was different I'd snitch   what would you do if you got Millions with niggas and they had no love   for ya?   couldn't pay for ya lawyer   I figured shit, why sit in a cell to rot?   I'll be out in Ten, start over again   throw those boys in the pot, but I couldn't do it   you couldn't understand it of you ain't been through it   there's rules to this shit and I couldn't break 'em   death before dishonor 'till I meet Satan...I know he's waitin'.      God forgive me...you've never seen a nigga like me in your life...   I'm what these lil' niggas rap about...   thats me they talkin' 'bout in they rhymes...   I did that time...I flipped that dime...   shoot-outs, jet planes, cocaine and automobiles...   The Life...love it.