(Verse 1)

Always felt like I'm losing my mind...
Been a while since I seen the receipt...
Use to have dreams of the beach...
Counting cash in executive suites.../
Used to hit licks on the regular...
To Get my respect from the streets/
Drama be hitting my cellular...
And I kept me a weapon for beef/
Years pass so fast/
Had a lot of n***as I would laugh with/
I done lost some n***as in my faction/
Some in prison, some got mad kids/
Some are pushing up daisies.../
And I think about em daily/
Some n***as that I thought were thеre realest somе funny n***as, Wayne Brady/
It feels so cold outside...
Yeah, my hood done seen better days/
I still fuck with n***as that's in the cut/
But nowadays, need a better fade/
Hold down the B, sipping lemonade/
All my trees on a better grade/
But I still got some dues, I'll get em paid/
Making sure all my dudes get hella plays/
Now I'm hungrier and wiser
Hallelujah back to rap now/
Street Fighter, no defense... You won't ever see me back down/
School of hard knocks, class clown/
I got one shot, like the last round/
It's a celebration, but ya glass down/
Time to put Mattapan on some maps now/
Iluhdis!
(Gil Scott-Heron)
The first revolution is when you change your mind
About how you look at things
And see that there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown
What you see later on is the results of that but the revolution that change that takes place
Will not be televised


(Chorus)
Guess I'm just another nappy headed n***a with a dream...
Uh oh uh oh...
(Pants saggin...weed smokin...
N***AS!)
Guess I'm just another nappy headed n***a with a dream!


Summer, spring, winter, Fall, grind/
Always been the type to chase mine/
Melanated educated brotha/
Hustle like I'm running outta time/

Used to run the streets with all my bros/
Chasing bitches, diamonds and clothes/
Nowadays I see the bigger picture/
Took a minute, now I feel the growth/
Many turned they backs to me, tuh!/
Could've let it phase me, but nope/
Understand that's just how life goes/
I'll roll with the punches, I suppose/

N***as talking bout they wanna shine/
I tell em all that glitters ain't gold/
But now I want that platinum shit/
Just a brotha speaking facts in all my raps and shit/

I still dream about my past and shit/
How close I was to trapping if it wasn't for this rapping shit/
So sick and tired of all the capping shit/
My only desire get on a track and spit/

Stories about my struggle/
Tips all about the hustle/
How I dealt with all my troubles/

How I cope with all my pain/
How I'll change the game/
Untll they put me in the hall of fame/from

B-O-S-T-O-N n***a/
I was born and raised
A n***a used to cause a raucous in the older days/
Danced with the devil without knowing there's hell to pay/
Well I ain't going to hell today/
Popping off you'd think it's shells and cases/
Yeah I mean it, you could tell the Jakes/
I'll beat the case, you see the face of me/
The great, emcee the cake I need, I chase it n***a/

(Gil Scott-Heron)
The first step towards having people change is try to change their minds
To inform them giving them some information about your perspective
Tell them how you see things and why you feel the way you do as opposed to what they're being bombarded with all the time
But the first thing that you do is you try to get your house together, then next door
Then the block
You don't try to go out and change the world tomorrow without taking any of those steps in between...


ILuHDiS!


(We should've started tonight off with a word of prayer
And we're gonna have a word of prayer
I...I need, uh...
Prayer for our community!
Sometimes we might hear negative things in our community...
But we have a great community!
Mattapan's a great community!
Great community!
Great community!
And we have a lot of wonderful things going on
So let's embrace the great things we have in this city
And have in this...
Area of Mattapan!)