From Scratch

Yo, just think if you could rewind time
And start your life all over again
What would you give and what would you keep?
You heard me, what would you keep?
Yo, yo , if I could go back, I wouldnta sold no crack
Wouldnta never put my hands around no gat
But you know Loon, bein all hard-headed
And dont listen, even if God said it
I didnt have to stick with folks that sniff no coke
I didnt have to fix the block when **** was broke
Same cats I helped was twistin smoke
Now imagine if I went to school, went to class
Stead of bein a young cat sent to blast
Sent to slash criminals necks in half
For playin dumb when I come to collect my cash
And cuz of that cats will respect my past , I aint playin
If I start from scratch Id sign with Def Jam
Nah, **** am I saying? Puffs the best man
Plus Imma Bad Boy, Im more like a bad man
Put mo *****s in pits than Brad, man
Cant dodge bullets? Too bad, man
****, Id a copped the five instead of the six
That way wouldnt of crashed and killed my cousin
Keep quiet instead of having the industry buzzin
Do a devils advocate style, dont let em see you comin
Use the revolver when bustin and sluggin
That way no evidence
But **** it, got money to be tried, worse come to worse
Who God bless, no man curse, hatin *****s, lay in the dirt
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (What? What?)
Rewind time and still go back (Its time to eat)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where its at?
If you could start your life from scratch (What? What?)
Rewind time and still go back (About to kill it)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where its at?
Come on, come on
Yo, if I could start life from scratch, I wouldnt change ****
Same gun, same clip, same dumb *****
All Out, Harlem World , same old clique
Same old studio, same old ****
**** dont change just because a cop took six to the brain
Meeno got a lawyer, man Im hip to the game
You could find a gun, but if my prints aint on that thing
What is you sayin?
And on the same block that I get my glocks from
You see the same cop that get popped with the shot gun
And at the same bodega I got my tops from
I give the same old money to the same cops bum
If I could start from scratch, Id bring daddy back
And put five in the first cat that show mami crack
I sit back and listen to them drunks on the block
Tryin to school me with jewels, tellin me who to watch
I killed five people, Id let survive
And the five I took away, Id a left alive
If I could do all it again Id bring Virg back
Or I switch places with him, I hope you heard that
I would have prefered that, I aint have to starve
Pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge
And Id do it all again if I had to
Pitch no-win to win, and Id be glad to
And Id hit every target I took aim at
But Id still be a problem, you cant change that
Im a problem
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (Uh)
Rewind time and still go back (All Out)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where its at? (And Double Up)
If you could start your life from scratch (Bad Boy, Bad Boy)
Rewind time and still go back (Yo, I really dont know whats goin on )
What would you change in the way that you live today (Im tellin ya, I really dont know whats goin on)
And what would you leave right where its at?
Come on, come on
Yo, cuz half the cats that flip, we all was cool
And half the chicks I hit, they teased me in school
I got a baby by a lady I dont even love alot
Wish I wore three rubbers case the first rubber popped
But you cant cry now, milk already spilt
I had eleven friends and ten already killed
Went down south and I aint feel the guilt
And I aint ready to war but that aint the way built
And for all the nights and all the fights
That I had for all this money over all these dice
All my cars and homes and all my ice
If I could do it all again, Id do it all for Christ
Whoever thought the limelight or the super-stardom
Whoever thought thered be a problem comin through Harlem
Cant even chill, cats wanna make me a villian
Cats that I grew up with I gotta contemplate killin
Nobody love me, Im my own mister, and on my own, mister
Mama did what she could but now Im grown, mister
Though she told me once, wish shed told me then
Though Im the youngest, Imma grow to be the oldest man
And cats thinkin they gon win cuz they veterans
Aint about age at this stage, man with the most cheddar win
How you live right? Every day get in bigger sin
How you say no at the door screamin 'Let me in'?
From the outside its lookin gooder than it ever been
But tell the truth, when I was broke it was better then
All Out, 33rd street
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where its at?
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where its at?
Come on, come on