Panorama - Torae, Mela Machinko

Bull rhythm

Raw livin'

Came up hard with no pot I could piss in

Came up smart with no pot in my system

At the beginning, then I went in

I asked moms about pops, why he missin'

I asked about the crack viles in the kitchen

Before I knew being an addict was addiction

Then it kicked in, then I pitched in

That was when the classmates used to diss then

What happened to your eye?

They never listened

They never wanted to know in the instance

You wake up out of your sleep half of your vision

Nigga I just couldn’t see shit

Used to feel like I was never gon' be shit

Patch on my eye, I couldn’t be Rick

You wanna hear T-Pain can you believe it?

My outlet was the music

Was either that or hoop dreams was the cool shit

I remember video music Box was the for new shit

Reading the back of the flap to see who produced it

Used to write raps on scraps like I could do this

We used to scrap those raps like, «Are you foolish?»

You ever heard of Rakim, Kane, Cool Chip?

Well maybe not the last, them other two… shit

You better find you a gig

You never gon' make it happen how they rappin' my nig

That was fuel to the fire that they light in the kid

That’s why I chose to inspire and enlighten the kids

I was moved even higher by the writing of B.I.G

Before that was Illmatic every night in the crib

Tribe Called Quest, the Gang Starr, too many to list

So when I get to work with Preme man it’s really a gift

When I get to work with Pete man it’s really the shit

And new legends, 9th Wonder, Khrysis, and Fatin

And everybody on the album that decided to pitch in

Marco you my brother till they bury my skin

Large Pro you a legend, don’t know where to begin

Buckwild, Diamond, Diggin' In The Crates to the end

And my nigga Eric G., you remembering when

You first hit me on Myspace, tryin' to be friends?

Told you, you was the truth way back then

Want 7 for the soul, now salute that man

It’s an army over here, y’all recruit that man

Come up on a ill sample go and loop that man

Really been the issues and journey since it began

Couldn’t tell you where I’m headed, how to get there fam

But if you in it for the ride put your seat back then

Ayo 'Tin put the beat back in