[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:09.55]Yo, listen, huh [00:11.31] [00:12.11] [00:13.23] [00:13.42]I just wanna thank you, for bein around [00:15.85]And patiently waitin and holdin me down [00:18.62]It's easy to see, for Mr. X to the Z [00:21.42]That without no you, there could be no me [00:24.21]I just wanna thank you, for bein a fan [00:27.58]And watchin me grow from a boy to a man [00:30.45]It's easy to see, for Mr. X to the Z [00:33.22]That without no you, there could be no me [00:34.54] [00:35.09] [00:36.17] [00:36.50]You 'bout to hear some words, that you ain't probably heard [00:39.11]With all of these rappers pullin triggers and flippin birds [00:42.14]I know it sound absurd, cause they don't tell the truth [00:45.19]They prostitutes, fuckin contaminate the youth [00:48.02]But yet I'm guilty of, the things I said above [00:51.17]No matter my faults still continue to show me love [00:54.03]Naw I ain't perfect mayne, but yet I stay the same [00:57.63]I play chess not checkers but this is not a game [01:00.06]And this is not a song, and this is not a verse [01:02.97]It's not conceived, or simulated or been rehearsed [01:05.89]Spent the first half of my life, thinkin that I was cursed [01:08.81]Could have been hit with a hollow, follow behind my hearse [01:11.99]That wasn't meant for me, I spent a decade [01:14.90]makin it what it's 'sposed to be, hopefully brought you close to me [01:17.70]All these people approachin me, don't even know the half [01:20.79]I could be facin life but X is signin autographs, damn [01:23.93] [01:25.19] [01:25.61] [01:26.08] [01:26.51] [01:29.99] [01:47.76]My son's 11 now, I got to see him grow [01:49.26]Makin his free throws, the way he laughin at the show [01:53.58]Yo he remind me of me, when I was ridin bikes [01:56.47]He gon' be taller than me, he got my mother's height [01:59.48]But yo you know the difference, between me and them others [02:02.40]They say you buggin when I call you my si