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What up..i've been writing since late 04 and just decided to start some recording, hence the soundclick.
Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #2,809
Peak in subgenre #1,554
Uploaded
February 26, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:41
Story behind the song
Topical battle off Rapdogs.com I felt like recording about NBA Legends
Lyrics
I rise and I wake to face the day, attack it like an ice breaker,
Patrollin' the court, shots made perfect like movie theatres,
My soul is chained down to the game's whistle blow now,
I aint never gonna slow down, not even 'till I hold crowns,
I'm gonna define a new glory no man has ever thought of,
The greatest NBA legend blasting off like he brought guns,
Face covered in a cold sweat, I wake to the slightest peep,
Cuz death surrounds fate and failure might just creak,
I palm this basketball, stand tall like my city of New York,
I break the reigns- my fears, Let my anger channel into courts,
This was the point of no return... . .
Shootin hoops was my dream, from sleep to the dawn of day,
Mom was strung out on things I tried to escape and get away,
Dad was a memory to me, suicide; it scarred me like a blade,
I thought of hatred and anger, But look back, see what it made,
The basketball was my Jesus Christ for all the days that I played,
Washed away all of my pain, The weakness leaving my body,
I grew strong, stayed away from drugs and kept up my hobby,
My life, my future, my rope I strived to climb outta this hole,
Needles and spoons on the dinner table made me want to fold,
Some days I would hold my hunger to get away from mom,
But I learned better than that I had to eat to stay strong,
I prayed to a God I never knew that she would pass away,
Tellin’ myself I was insane, But how could I not be?
I felt my grip stripped- but clenched my teeth, never gave,
My endurance wasn’t just cardio, that’s how you unlock dreams,
It wasn’t ‘till the day I came home from school and found-
My mother layin’ on the ground- face down she was drowned,
In a pool of her own blood, I didn’t flinch, didn’t think,
Face with a motive to prove this wasn’t the end of me,
I just turned around headed straight down to my fate,
This was the day I sold my soul to this game, this gate,
This pathway to destiny, I gathered the rest of what was left in me,
Dropped out of school, Only mathematics was counting score,
Three point shots from every angle, I knew geometry,
Heart pounding, I’d play ‘till my vision would distort,
Giving a war to each and every man who stepped to me,
This was the birth of the greatest NBA legend seen,
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