So true my guy. I always argue with a friend of mines about what's more important between swag and lyrics. Sadly, he thinks swag and having hit songs is more important. Personally, I don't wanna hear club and swag music all the time, this type of music is what counts to me. Swag is just a fad but lyrics will always stick with you. Lyrics is what makes a song timeless.
Just getting into Cormega. Had just heard his Affirmative Action verse, but this nigga is nice. So many forgotten greats from this era. People need to honor true MC's..
When my homie died a few years back, his opening line about "that shit really hit you like 'damn I ain't gon see my brother no more'" played endlessly in my head. I listened to this song a lot of times before he died, but when he died it hit me so differently. A prayer for the dead.
Another brotha who didn't get that credit that he deserve due to music industry politics. Anyway, he used to get busy on that microphone. When I listen to him, I go for lyrics and then the beat...
@dominic clarke Holy fuck you sound dumb!!! Hip hop is black music, Mega is underrated in such a way that he's talented as fuck but does not get the recognition he deserves. Tf does being black have to do with shit? I'm a black African but damnn you black Americans always gotta bring race into things. You're the biggest snowflakes on this planet. Tf does being black have to do with anything here? Dude's a hip hop artist, you make it sound like he's a country singer. Btw....the majority of entertainers in this world are black , the whole world knows who they are and embrace them. Stop that crap
@@pistolpete8231 hahahaha right on. The problem is the ignorant likes to stay ignorant and never like to think for themselves. Just spew dumb shit that they hear without considering what they're saying
I always loved this track. Mega need to drop his rhymes like this again. It was bigger than just multisyllable rhymes, he had a nonchalant brilliant flow
RIP : Mac Dre , Tupac Shakur , Notorious B.I.G. , Big L , Guru , Ol' Dirty Bastard , Big Pun , MC Breed , Eyedea , Pimp C , Eazy E , Cowboy , MC Trouble , Buffy , Poetic .....rip old school H/H ! RIP Moskri !
I own this album, worth every penny. I remember when nas 2nd album came out and I was like who is this cat? And he started making the mixtape underground circuit hot but he got blackballed on an official album. He never got to blow up and get the cash like he deserves, but he's still real and hungry and always on point... it's like he said "It doesn't matter if your chain is platinum / If what you say is average / You will not be mentioned with the greatest rappers".
[Intro] What, I'ma live for my niggas I'ma shine for my niggas [Verse 1] How can I express the sorrow, I learn to dread tomorrow Had to see my nigga Yammy dead-he can rest with honor 'Cause he was reppin on his quest for dollars I was the one who took him Uptown, with someone into measure powder I treasure our memories together, hard to believe I'ma never see you again, but I'ma make you breathe with a pen So everyone can see you, my friend, in fly sneakers again Life is sweet and kinda deep when it ends Still remember you beefin' over bullshit calls at basketball games cheatin Yo, my cipher ain't complete, I'm sorry for that argument we had On twelfth street over a sale, knowing well that you was seekin dough as well We made up the same night, through the years remained tight The same love, same drugs, rockin' the same Nikes Now that you gone, I'm here reppin' your name right [Chorus] Did you ever lose a nigga you love? Then ask yourself is there a heaven for thugs? And will you be forgiven when your spirit is judged This song is dedicated to my niggas above Did you ever lose a nigga you love? Then ask yourself is there a heaven for thugs? And will you be forgiven when your spirit is judged This song is dedicated to my niggas above [Verse 2] To my cousin Bam You my fuckin man, I find it hard to understand You gone-your physical form is dormant I'm lost like the Bulls without Jordan Tell my man J.B. from Edgemere I said peace Son, I live a thug life, I clutch mics With the same intensity that I used to crush white G-Fresh was at your funeral (Word), son I felt it And if I start cryin when I rhyme I can't help it Analyze, never think I forgot you, you my heart And even death can't keep the two of us apart From day one, watchin' cartoons, shootin' playguns Who ever thought we see this day come? Tell my moms I miss her-give her a kiss And tell her that her youngest child done her proud I know she heard about me runnin' wild Y'all gone now, but livin in my memory Fallen soldiers, sleepin' in serenity [Chorus] Did you ever lose a nigga you love? Then ask yourself is there a heaven for thugs? And will you be forgiven when your spirit is judged This song is dedicated to my niggas above Did you ever lose a nigga you love? Then ask yourself is there a heaven for thugs? And will you be forgiven when your spirit is judged This song is dedicated to my niggas above [Verse 3] Killa Black, what up my nigga? I know you chillin' with my nigga Ill Will Inside a ghetto heaven building With a Mac-11, still in your jeans, screamin' Infamous Queens Forty-First Side kid, you know me I know the O-Z's are whiter there, pussy much tighter there 'Pac and Eazy-E coming through on low riders there The same old thing, except there ain't no pain Your brother Havoc doing his thing, yo for real It's all good in the hood, the Escalade with the wood-grain Son was never misunderstood, dearly departed Hear me acknowledge all my people who passed Whether holdin' heat, or in it for cash Some of y'all led sinister paths, some are pure like Dominican raw, knockin on heaven's door The only thing you ever ran from in life is law I reminisce your memories, for you this Hennessy we pour
word.... Cormega was one of the hiphop legends who got interviewe d in the book ' HOW-T0-R AP : The Art& Science of the HipHop MC ' Really amazin book, if you like classic hiphop and real mcing then its a must-read, peace
I heard a version of this on a cd with Source magazine(I think) years ago...It was still Cormega but I thought that version a bit better, could never find it again. Great album
I can still feel the palm of your hand…… it’s hard to believe I’m never gonna see you again ….. , so many memories from this track, the amount of friends I used to listen to this with and now I can’t
R. I. P to all the entertainment greats like Big L, Eazy E, Pac, ODB, Nate Dogg, Bernie Mac, Freaky Tah, & all them names that I could not list on this yo! Y'all shaped the industry big & left marks all over peace.
This is the first time I here this song!! Real music!!!! It makes me remember some of my friends from my old neighborhood in Williamsburgs Brooklyn one of my friends got stabbed in the belly with a broken beer bottle in a rumble in the Bronx in front of all of us one of our people did a rap show at a club one night we ended up having a rubble in the Bronx that night!! It was a crazy!! Night!! 🎶🎵🎶
Rest in Peace Corporal Casey Lee Mellon, Corporal Billy Ferris, Corporal Anthony Bradshaw, Captain Drew Jensen. We will never forget you. V-XX Infantry!
This isn't the album version. The one off The Realness track 7 is the most legit one made. This one sounds like it was made a few years before or something
Every time I listen to this I think of my friend Todd… the world will never know him, but man… one of coolest people I feel like that was ever on this planet,,, by the way this is maybe one of 10 things I’ve publicly written on the internet in my entire life
