[00:32.12] The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it [00:34.94] Let these words be your earth and moon [00:36.46] You consume every message [00:37.97] As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression [00:40.59] And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question: [00:43.88] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [00:46.62] When shit hit the fan (one two, one two) [00:49.52] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [00:52.48] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [00:55.08] The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it [00:57.60] Let these words be your earth and moon [00:59.30] You consume every message [01:00.76] As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression [01:03.43] And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question: [01:06.96] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [01:09.42] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [01:12.15] Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends [01:15.45] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [01:17.78] Do you believe in me? Are you deceiving me? [01:20.17] Could I let you down easily, is your heart where it need to be? [01:23.06] Is your smile on permanent? Is your vow on lifetime? [01:25.77] Would you know where the sermon is if I died in this next line? [01:28.96] If I'm tried in a court of law, if the industry cut me off [01:31.72] If the government want me dead, plant cocaine in my car [01:34.61] Would you judge me a drug-head or see me as K. Lamar [01:37.45] Or question my character and degrade me on every blog [01:40.24] Want you to love me like Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson [01:43.18] I freed you from being a slave in your mind, you're very welcome [01:45.95] You tell me my song is more than a song, it's surely a blessing [01:49.09] But a prophet ain't a prophet til they ask you this question: [01:52.32] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [01:55.28] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [01:57.73] Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends [02:01.18] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [02:03.55] The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it [02:06.33] Let my words be your earth and moon you consume every message [02:09.18] As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression [02:12.07] And with that [02:14.85] Do you believe in me? How much you believe in her? [02:17.56] You think she gon' stick around if them 25 years occur? [02:20.36] You think he can hold you down when you down behind bars hurt? [02:23.35] You think y'all on common ground if you promise to be the [02:25.46] First? Can you be immortalised without your life being expired? [02:29.02] Even though you share the same blood is it worth the time? [02:31.89] Like who got your best interest? [02:33.13] Like how much are you dependent? [02:34.65] How clutch are the people that say they love you? [02:36.54] And who pretending? [02:37.58] How tough is your skin when they turn you in? [02:39.13] Do you show forgiveness? [02:40.32] What brush do you bend when dusting [02:41.54] Your shoulders from being offended? [02:43.10] What kind of den did they put you in when the lions start hissing? [02:46.28] What kind of bridge did they burn? [02:47.57] Revenge or your mind when it's mentioned? [02:49.12] You wanna love like Nelson, you wanna be like Nelson [02:51.93] You wanna walk in his shoes but you peacemaking seldom [02:54.52] You wanna be remembered that delivered the message [02:57.21] That considered the blessing of everyone [02:59.29] This your lesson for everyone, say [03:01.01] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [03:03.73] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [03:06.37] Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends [03:09.55] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [03:12.12] The voice of Mandela, hope this flow stay propellin' [03:14.82] Let my word be your Earth and moon [03:16.48] You consume every message [03:17.79] As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression [03:20.60] And if you riding with me, nigga [03:23.43] I been wrote off before, I got abandonment issues [03:26.46] I hold grudges like bad judges, don't let me resent you [03:29.16] That's not Nelson-like, want you to love me like Nelson [03:31.89] I went to Robben's Island analysing, that's where his cell is [03:34.72] So I could find clarity, like how much you cherish me [03:37.58] Is this relationship a fake or real as the heavens be? [03:40.18] See I got to question it all, family, friends, fans, cats, dogs [03:43.26] Trees, plants, grass, how the wind blow [03:45.53] Murphy's Law, generation X, will I ever be your X? [03:48.73] Floss off a baby step, mauled by the mouth of [03:51.24] Pit bulls, put me under stress [03:53.17] Crawled under rocks, ducking y'all, it's respect [03:55.55] But then tomorrow, put my back against the wall [03:57.69] How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead? [04:00.48] Is it Moses, is it Huey Newton or Detroit Red? [04:03.33] Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shoot or you assassin [04:06.36] Is it Jackie, is it Jesse, oh I know, it's Michael Jackson, oh [04:09.40] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [04:12.47] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [04:15.18] That nigga gave us Billie Jean, you say he touched those kids? [04:18.11] When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? [04:20.77] The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it [04:23.50] Let my word be your earth and moon you consume every message [04:26.25] As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression [04:29.24] And if you riding with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga [04:47.85] "I remember you was conflicted [04:50.07] Misusing your influence [04:52.57] Sometimes I did the same [04:55.04] Abusing my power, full of resentment [04:58.27] Resentment that turned into a deep depression [05:01.07] Found myself screaming in the hotel room [05:04.49] I didn't wanna self destruct [05:07.33] The evils of Lucy was all around me [05:10.83] So I went running for answers [05:14.08] Until I came home [05:16.46] But that didn't stop survivor's guilt [05:19.72] Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned [05:24.27] Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was [05:27.72] But while my loved ones was fighting the [05:29.56] Continuous war back in the city, I was entering a new one [05:34.40] A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination [05:40.57] Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned [05:45.13] The word was respect [05:47.46] Just because you wore a different gang color than mine's [05:51.86] Doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man [05:55.91] Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets [06:00.19] If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us [06:06.53] But I don't know, I'm no mortal man, maybe I'm just another nigga" [06:15.52] Shit and that's all I wrote [06:17.87] I was gonna call it Another Nigga but, it ain't really a poem, [06:21.62] I just felt like it's something you probably could relate to. [06:25.33] Other than that, now that I finally got a chance to holla at you, [06:28.64] I always wanted to ask you about a certain situa--, [06:31.73] About a metaphor actually, you spoke on the ground. [06:36.39] What you mean 'bout that, what the ground represent? [06:40.09] The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil [06:43.49] Right [06:44.66] That's how I see it, my word is bond. [06:46.36] I see--and the ground is the symbol for the poor people, [06:49.53] The poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the [06:52.24] Rich people. Cause the rich people gonna be so fat, [06:54.84] They gonna be so appetising, you know what I'm saying, wealthy, [06:58.32] Appetising. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, [07:01.87] You know what I'm saying it's gonna be like... there might [07:06.08] Be some cannibalism out this mutha, they might eat the rich [07:10.30] Aight so let me ask you this then, [07:12.44] Do you see yourself as somebody that's rich or [07:15.70] Somebody that made the best of their own opportunities? [07:19.77] I see myself as a natural born hustler, [07:21.76] A true hustler in every sense of the word. I took nothin', [07:24.67] I took the opportunities, [07:25.97] I worked at the most menial and degrading job and built myself up so [07:30.53] I could get it to where I owned it. [07:32.00] I went from having somebody manage me to me hiring the person that [07:35.23] Works my management company. [07:36.80] I changed everything I realized my destiny in a matter of five years [07:40.52] You know what I'm saying I made myself a millionaire. [07:42.93] I made millions for a lot of people now it's time to make millions [07:45.74] For myself, you know what I'm saying. [07:47.04] I made millions for the record companies, [07:48.61] I made millions for these movie companies, now I make millions for us [07:53.46] And through your different avenues of success, [07:56.78] How would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity? [08:00.36] And by my faith in "all good things come to those that stay true. [08:08.69] " You know what I'm saying, and it was happening to me for a reason, [08:11.67] You know what I'm saying, I was noticing, shit, [08:14.25] I was punching the right buttons and it was happening. [08:17.08] So it's no problem, [08:18.64] You know I mean it's a problem but I'm not [08:20.02] Finna let them know. I'm finna go straight through [08:23.12] Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart or [08:27.08] Somebody that only reacts when they back is against the wall? [08:33.27] Shit, I like to think that at every opportunity I've ever been [08:37.44] Threatened with resistance, it's been met with resistance. [08:41.67] And not only me but it goes down my family tree. [08:44.75] You know what I'm saying, it's in my veins to fight back [08:46.84] Aight well, how long you think it take before niggas be like, [08:52.20] We fighting a war, [08:53.76] I'm fighting a war I can't win and I wanna lay it all down [08:57.91] In this country a black man only have like 5 years we can exhibit [09:01.87] Maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, [09:04.83] While you still strong or while you still wanna lift weights, [09:07.38] While you still wanna shoot back. [09:08.72] Cause once you turn 30 it's like they take the heart and soul out of [09:11.64] A man, out of a black man in this country. [09:13.73] And you don't wanna fight no more. [09:15.21] And if you don't believe me you can look around, [09:16.96] You don't see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafuckas [09:20.17] That's crazy, because me being one of your offspring of the legacy [09:24.65] You left behind I can truly tell you that there's nothing but turmoil [09:28.71] Goin' on so I wanted to ask you what you [09:31.97] Think is the future for me and my generation today? [09:35.22] I think that niggas is tired of grabbin' shit out the stores and next [09:38.99] Time it's a riot there's gonna be, like, uh, bloodshed for real. [09:42.83] I don't think America know that. [09:44.52] I think American think we was just playing and it's gonna be some [09:46.58] More playing but it ain't gonna be no playing. It's gonna be murder, [09:50.20] You know what I'm saying, it's gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831, [09:53.70] Up in this muthafucka. You know what I'm saying, it's gonna happen [09:58.01] That's crazy man. In my opinion, [10:01.92] Only hope that we kinda have left is music and vibrations, [10:07.22] Lotta people don't understand how important it is. [10:10.10] Sometimes I be like, [10:12.00] Get behind a mic and I don't know what type of energy [10:14.57] I'mma push out, or where it comes from. Trip me out sometimes [10:20.26] Because the spirits, we ain't even really rappin', [10:22.94] We just letting our dead homies tell stories for us [10:25.32] Damn [10:28.07] I wanted to read one last thing to you. [10:30.81] It's actually something a good friend [10:32.92] Had wrote describing my world. It says: [10:39.84] "The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it [10:44.04] Its only job is to eat or consume everything [10:47.42] Around it, in order to protect itself from this mad city [10:51.45] While consuming its environment the [10:53.78] Caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive [10:56.73] One thing it noticed is how much the [10:58.46] World shuns him, but praises the butterfly [11:02.05] The butterfly represents the talent, [11:04.09] The thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar [11:08.02] But having a harsh outlook on life the caterpillar sees the [11:11.06] Butterfly as weak and figures out [11:13.87] A way to pimp it to his own benefits [11:16.85] Already surrounded by this mad city the caterpillar [11:19.26] Goes to work on the cocoon which institutionalizes him [11:23.80] He can no longer see past his own thoughts [11:26.27] He's trapped [11:28.13] When trapped inside these walls certain ideas take roots, [11:30.80] Such as going home, and bringing back new concepts to this mad city [11:35.37] The result? [11:36.85] Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant [11:41.62] Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that [11:45.70] The caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle [11:50.85] Although the butterfly and caterpillar are [11:52.71] Completely different, they are one and the same." [11:57.47] What's your perspective on that? [12:01.51] Pac? Pac? [12:06.26] Pac?! [12:06.78]