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Load up the Pro Tools and press three
– Onus Sursum Pro Instrumenta et torcular tres
Studio filled with Jack In The Box and Pepsis
– Studio Repleti Jack In Arca archa quod Pepsis
Niggas watchin’ WorldStar videos, not the ESPYs
– Niggas watchin ‘ worldstar videos, Non De Spys
Laughin’ at B. Pumper, stomach turnin’, I get up and proceeded to write somethin’
– Ridens ‘apud B. Pumper, stomachum turnin’, surgo et perrexi scribere aliquid’
Ab-Soul in the corner mumblin’ raps, fumblin’ packs of Black & Milds
– Ab-Anima in angulo mumblin ‘raps, fumblin’ Sarcinas nigrae &Amp; Mids
Crumblin’ kush ’til he cracked a smile
– Crumblin ‘kush’ donec cru crepuit
His words legendary, wishin’ I could rhyme like him
– His verbis fabulosus, wishin ‘ rhythmus ei similis potui
Studied his style to define my pen
– Stylus eius studuit calamum meum definire
That was back when the only goal was to get Jay Rock through the door
– Quod erat reversus cum solus finis Erat Ut Jay Petram per ostium
Warner Brother Records, hope Naim Ali would let us know
– Warner Frater Records, spes Naim Ali non sit nobis scire
Was excited just to go to them label meetings
– Sicut excitatur ad eos titulus conventus
Wasn’t my record deal, but still, I couldn’t believe it
– Nisi videam ista, non credam
Me and Rock inside the booth hibernatin’
– Me et Rupem intra umbraculum hibernatin’
It was simple math, if he made it, that mean I made it
– Erat simplex math, si fecit illud, quod mean ego feci eam
Everything I had was for the team, I remained patient
– Omne quod erat ad bigas, patientes estote et manserunt
Grindin’ with my brothers, it was us against them, no one above us, bless our hearts
– Grindin’ cum fratribus meis, non erat nobis in eis, nemo super nos, benedicat cordibus nostris
Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby, just relax your mind)
– Utere corde tuo et non oculis tuis (Infans, modo animum tuum relaxa)
If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)
– Se riuscite a trovare anche la prima sarebbe perfetto!
Free your thoughts and watch them fly
– Cogitationes tuas libera et eas vola
Use your heart and not your eyes (Mm-hmm)
– Utere corde tuo, non oculis tuis (Mm-hmm)
My nigga Dave had a champagne Acura
– Dudamos que pedro busque un trabajo acura
A bunch of instrumentals I freestyled in the passenger
– Fasciculus instrumentorum ego freestyled in viatoribus
That nigga wore several hats, a producer, a manager, director, and DJ
– Quod nigga plures pileos gerebat, producentem, procuratorem, directorem ET DJ
A hothead squabblin’, Bloods, Pirus, and Keeways
– In his est et illud de perseverantia, de qua Disputamus.
For this little thing of ours we called TDE
– Ad hoc parum nostrum VOCAVIMUS TDE
I watched you take some penitentiary chances to say the least
– Videte ne quis vos de paenitentiariis poenitentiary casus dicere minimus
Remember in the county building with MixedByAli
– Memento in comitatu aedificium Cum MixedByAli
We tried to freak the system just to make a couple ends meet
– Conati sumus lusus naturae sicut ratio ad finem duobus occursum
That’s my nigga for shit sure
– Quod suus meus nigga pro stercore certus
He brought Q over, but Q didn’t rap, but he learned from our inspo
– Et non didicit, iam docere compellitur.
We split Louisiana chicken riverboat specials
– Ludoviciana pullum riverboat speciales scindimus
Sleepin’ next to 02R consoles to be our refuge
– Sleepin ‘ proximus 02R solatur ut refugium nostrum sit
He was homeless and I left home
– Erat profugo et reliquit domum suam
Q said, “Dot, you won’t be slept on, you the nigga to bet on” (Use your h—)
– Dixitque eis: Surgite, et nolite timere.
Top had given us dominion in the home he lived in
– Domine deus meus in domo tua vivifica me
Hopin’ that we see some millions, God bless our hearts
– Hopin ‘ quod videmus quidam decies Centena millia, Deus corda nostra benedicat
Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby, just relax your mind)
– Utere corde tuo et non oculis tuis (Infans, modo animum tuum relaxa)
If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)
– Se riuscite a trovare anche la prima sarebbe perfetto!
Free your thoughts and watch them fly
– Cogitationes tuas libera et eas vola
Use your heart and not your eyes
– Utere corde tuo et non oculis tuis
Punch played Phil Jackson in my early practices
– Ferrum lusit Phil Tullius in primis exercitia mea
Strategies on how to be great amongst the averages
– Strategies in quam magna esse inter averages
I picked his brain on what was ordained, highly collaborative
– Et sustulit eum super cerebrum quod ordinavit, altus collaborative
RET pushed the label the same, amongst the savages
– PITTACIUM IDEM RET impulit, inter barbaros
Moose kept my name in the function that he would run in
– Alces nomen meum servavit in munere quod in se curreret
TEEZ kept the vultures away from me that was comin’
– Teez servavit vultures a me quod erat comin’
Sounwave let me borrow his clothes for shows as a hype man
– Sounwave vestem suam pro spectaculis ut hype hominem mutuo accipiam
To cook up in this room ’til the night ends
– Coquere sursum in hoc cubiculum ‘ la noche que nos conocimos
Time flies, I’m carryin’ debates of a top five
– Tempus fugit, ego carryin ‘ disputatio de summo quinque
Buryin’ my opps and allies
– Gollapudi’ et sociis meis opps
But I’d done a half job communicatin’ feelings of being stagnant
– Sed ego feci dimidium officium communicatin ‘ affectus entis stagnantis
Life was gettin’ bigger than just rappin’
– Vita erat gettin ‘maior quam rappin’
The business, what I was lackin’
– Negotium, quod eram lackin’
Top used to record me back when it was poor me
– Summum solebat recordarentur mihi quando erat pauper mihi
And now we at the round table for what assures me
– Nunc autem ad mensam rotundam quid me confirmat
I guess my motivation was the yearnin’ for independence
– Ego coniecto causam meam erat yearnin ‘ pro libertate
Poured everything I had left in the family business
– Effudit omnia quae in negotio familiari reliqui
Now it’s about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a Black exec’
– Nunc suus ‘Kendrick, ego volo evolve, sicut nigrum exec pone mihi skillset’
I jog my memory, knowin’ Black Hippy didn’t work ’cause of me
– Ego quatio meam memoriam, knowin ‘Nigrum Hippy non operatur’ causa me
Creatively, I moved on with new concepts in reach
– Creatively, ego movetur ad novum conceptus semoto
Top, remember all them sessions we would strategize
– Summo memento omnes sessiones nos strategize
To hit the streets, then come back, record three records? Ah
– Ut ledo plateas, tunc reversus recordarentur trium records? Ah
To tell the truth, it fucked me up when D-Man passed
– Ut verum dicam, quod mihi eruditionis habes cum D-hominis transierunt
The motive was the condolences, but the pride crashed
– Causa erat consolantibus, sed superbia ingruat
I had to bypass old mythologies I had
– Ego quoque ut bypass vetus mythologiis habui
Put my heart on display like it was an iMac
– Pone cor meum in ostentationem sicut erat iMac
To all my young niggas, let me be the demonstration
– Ad omnes meos iuvenes niggas, fiat mihi demonstratio
How to conduct differences with a healthy conversation
– Quomodo differentias ducere cum colloquio sano
If that’s your family, then handle it as such
– Si familia tua est, eam ut talem tracta
Don’t let the socials gas you up or let emotions be your crutch
– Noli te gas sociales ascendere vel affectus fusum tuum esse
Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost
– Sume telephonum et imaginem eius antequam historia amittitur
Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart
– Manus ad handshake bonum est cum cor ad cor habes
Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby, just relax your mind)
– Utere corde tuo et non oculis tuis (Infans, modo animum tuum relaxa)
If you got time and I got time (Yeah, yeah)
– Se riuscite a trovare anche la prima sarebbe perfetto!
Free your thoughts and watch them fly
– Cogitationes tuas libera et eas vola
Use your heart and not your eyes (Mm-hmm)
– Utere corde tuo, non oculis tuis (Mm-hmm)
