My cousin Codey showed me this song when we were younger… now he’s gone. He passed away March 25, 2019 from an accidental fentanyl overdose. I miss him😔🖤
My dead brother from another mother Christopher Kin Wah Tam 01/07/82 - 02/06/2006, died from a heroin overdose i was in state prison, put me on to this classic. Sorry for your loss, keep your head up, this song has (and obviously continues to) gotten me through many a tough night .. thanks for keeping the Realness of our past loved ones alive 💯❤
Damn bruddas, this goes beyond my heart. Too the whole world... keep strong everybody! Who are they to judge you or us at that. Amen. Thank you cormega
Ahhh imagine its 2006 getting blitzed for one of the first times...this shit is monumental for me. this song hits hard even in 2020. Rip to the old us.
Respect from Toronto this is a real masterpiece everyone who knows and listens to cormega since the 90s: big respect . One of the most talented lyricist out there by far I wish hed got the success he deserved
it's like the 80th time i listen to this song today.... mad respect for cormega ive never lived mad struggle like he did but i know what its like to feel depressed and what it is to be an addict... ima try to stay positive thanks for helping me passing thru each day with your music....
Rap's a mental narcotic , i supply the street. 😡😠 Trap music before trap was even born . God damnnnn mega . You one of the greatest still getting us by.
My hip hop anthem is shook ones pt 2 But I love this fkn song the beat is off the chain and the lyrics are killah, cormega is fkn awesome n underrated!!!!!!!
If you ask me... 1) Notorious BIG 2) Cormega 3) Ghostface Killah 4) Tragedy Khadafi 5) Kool G Rap 6) Rakim 7) Sean Price 8) GZA 9) Ra. THe rugged man 10) JAy.z .. just personally :)
Man talking) Yo Mega man, what's the deal son? (Mega) Yo son, whattup? (Man) Yo, I'm just sittin' here, zonin' out, thinkin' about how life is Yo, life's general for us, you know? how we livin' out here, you know Things we goin' through man, why we gotta go through this life, you know? (Mega) Life is an interlude to death son, you ever thought about that? (Man) Word, son. (echos out) [Verse 1] The saga begins I'm a reflection of the drama within The ghetto I live in, nigga's Moms on crack, Pops just disappeared The first time you get locked up who really cares? I see a little snotty nosed kid with his sneakers on backwards Sleep on a mattress. When I go to make a sale At times I wonder, are we goin' straight to Hell? Or does God realize we're tryin' to make it as well? My sleep is interrupted by food on the stove Not gun shots, we're immune to those Some of my friends' first bids are two to fours, others on the run with huge rewards Mothers watch sons walk through the door For the last time 'till they go view at the morgue Life is deep, we all just tryin' to eat Rap's a mental narcotic, I supply the streets [Hook] Look at my life, you see white coke and black roses And tears shed for passed soldiers We all walk in a path chosen From the cradle 'till the casket's lowered I still got the black ski mask to throw on But I can get richer off the tracks I flow on I'd be lyin' if I said I wasn't hustlin' no more Look at my life
[Verse 2] Life ain't fair, Shorty pregnant with nowhere to live Sleepin' in a crackhouse cause she don't got no relatives Her friends wanna drink brew and beef about whose sale it is Now she's gettin' hungry, she smell the marijuana scent I paint a picture vividly As if Picasso's spirit entered me Starin' at the Heavens, secluded in a tinted jeep I'm sick of hearin' eulogies I realize my nigga Blue is a reminder of my past like Greek ruins Yet his seed keeps bloomin' Unaffected by police intrusions Or street illusions we were consumed wit' I've even grown away from people I grew wit' I mean we cool, but I don't need to bullshit My mood could switch easily from smooth to ruthless We ain't built the same so mind games are useless Times change, like the climate I change Check the forecast, I reign [Hook] [Verse 3] Live niggas I rep for, deceased, I pour Moet for Those incarcerated, my heart is wit' y'all I know at times it gets hard behind penitentiary bars Then once free you realize you're mentally scarred If not physically, if subjected to correctional facilities Prepare for your future to the best of your ability Prosper, otherwise You've been conquered Blowin' up your mother's phone so she can send you a box Son, I sit inside my residence And thank God I'm blessed with this poetical gift evident in every Ghetto like graffiti and crack sales And cabs that won't stop for black males Undercovers givin' younger brothers bad stares Fours clap, dogs crap in the grass here You love to hear the story son, the saga began here MC's are fictitious yet the actual facts here Like the Bible said, Jesus had napped hair
I don't like this song....I LOVE IT!! props to Mega one of(if not the) illest in the game. Never a sell out , not banal. It's good to hear a true MC that can rap without saying pussy bitch fuck motherfucker i am the greatest i fuck a lot or shit like that. This is that Hip-Hop i fell in love with.
Biggest saga no need remix allow no need bible part 2 allow , let's go this fellow meet a lady bad crowd parents hated each other one in castle one in valley some how go mega
My cousin Codey showed me this song when we were younger… now he’s gone. He passed away March 25, 2019 from an accidental fentanyl overdose. I miss him😔🖤
My dead brother from another mother Christopher Kin Wah Tam 01/07/82 - 02/06/2006, died from a heroin overdose i was in state prison, put me on to this classic.
Sorry for your loss, keep your head up, this song has (and obviously continues to) gotten me through many a tough night .. thanks for keeping the Realness of our past loved ones alive 💯❤
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One of the deepest rap songs ever written. These new rappers could learn a thing or two from these 90’s rappers. Cormegas top 10 for sure
Damn bruddas, this goes beyond my heart. Too the whole world... keep strong everybody! Who are they to judge you or us at that. Amen. Thank you cormega
I am so connected to this song i will listen to it till i die
Mega was always the realest in tha Firm, he stayed true signing no production deal
Still bumping this after 10 years
Ahhh imagine its 2006 getting blitzed for one of the first times...this shit is monumental for me. this song hits hard even in 2020. Rip to the old us.
Respect from Toronto this is a real masterpiece everyone who knows and listens to cormega since the 90s: big respect . One of the most talented lyricist out there by far I wish hed got the success he deserved
i wish hip hop was still this good
it's like the 80th time i listen to this song today.... mad respect for cormega ive never lived mad struggle like he did but i know what its like to feel depressed and what it is to be an addict... ima try to stay positive thanks for helping me passing thru each day with your music....
This one of the best tracks ever much love from the bay 650
One of my favorite songs of all time
Why can’t I find this to buy it!? One of the best hip hop songs of all time
Rap's a mental narcotic , i supply the street. 😡😠 Trap music before trap was even born . God damnnnn mega . You one of the greatest still getting us by.
I remember everything California and Hollywood
Hands down one of my favorite tracks of all time
Same here
this is real talk!!!!! what hip-hop should and always be!!!!!
if u cant feel it dont listen to it!!!! A TRUE SPEAKER OF DA STREETS!!!!!!
2021 still hear.....
Me and my friends back in the day would bump this song. Awesome shit right here.
EPIC TRACK, where has the real hip hop gone?
2022 and still here lmao
It's been hijacked by weirdos. 😉
Cormega is beast his bars are heavy true words
Bigggggg tune❤️ RIP Jordan, from the cradle to the casket lowered❤
My hip hop anthem is shook ones pt 2 But I love this fkn song the beat is off the chain and the lyrics are killah, cormega is fkn awesome n underrated!!!!!!!
R.i.P Foosh - Jon Chambers
Cormega .. AZ .. nas .. like the dude below me said , RIP to the old us . I miss all this shit man ..
the song dat made me wanna rap !
awesome song thanks
i dont know what to say....i love it! real rap,real soldier
Legends. Rap has died and will never be the same. 😥
Я услышал этот трэк году в 2006, эта одна из самых сильных лирик в истории хип-хопа!!! Через него с нами Говорил бог!!!
Rip Rico. I know you used to love this song my dude
RIP Rico
This song got me through rehab 🙏
I covered this song at an open mic full of white ppl and I had never gotten a standing ovation like that night!! Mega is great
REAL SHIT RIGHT HERE.
Fuck, this is beautiful.
this song is real it shows how life can really be it doesnt glorify crime it shows the struggles that cormega had to go thru to become what he is now
Queenz emcee's are the fuckin best, love my hood 93 street TEC nigga
Still here
BTW rest in peace my niggaz i was raised wit and 1 love to my fam thatz still reppin that Qeenz NY street life...
Real Hip-Hop, thx for uploading!
Chills
Megas becoming my favourite artist very quickly
wat ever happened to all those real sick rappers like cormega
It’s cuzz they never sold there soul they kept it real 💯
Why is this not on spotify ? Crazy
RIGHT!. such a piss off
Honestly this is why I don’t like Spotify! So many bangers are not on it.
Yes sir 🔥🔥🔥👌🏾
True song.
hip hop anthem!! banging hook! i pefer the remix to the original
genius
This track has been my crack for years
The realness ✊🏼
YEO GIVE THE TWO PEOPLE WHO DISLIKED THIS A BREAK, WHAT HAPPENED WAS THEY LIKED THIS SO MUCH THEY TURNED THEIR LAPTOPS UPSIDE DOWN TO LIKE IT AGAIN
more deep than dope id say
True shit! this nigga aint about those bullshit rappers, this nigga real describing the ghetto and shit day a day, word.
Mega, bring'n G's back to that NY Bedrock. Industry snakes were terrified by The Realness = As the Man, not just music.
CORY SPEAKING FACTZ 🚩
ive even grown away from people i grew wit, who only seem concerned when they need me to do shit.
real fuckin talk
Still here, this beat is better than the original imo.
Real talk.
damn..this be makin' you think.
Deep ass track
for nice sang frederik :)
I can't relate but hell yea this shit goes hard
i can fuck with that list, i would have prodigy in there...he can paint a grimey violent picture in your mind when he raps
If you ask me...
1) Notorious BIG
2) Cormega
3) Ghostface Killah
4) Tragedy Khadafi
5) Kool G Rap
6) Rakim
7) Sean Price
8) GZA
9) Ra. THe rugged man
10) JAy.z
.. just personally :)
"Queenz"
💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
realest shit i ever heard -- 1 up brothas
did he sample this? nd if yes then from what song
Amazing feel it belive it its da real shit
Dope. Pure fucking dope
respect
grande
Most underrated MC ever fuck dat and I cosign
2 people actually disliked this? The fuck....
Not gunshots we immune to those
❤
to real said it how it is
Man talking) Yo Mega man, what's the deal son?
(Mega) Yo son, whattup?
(Man) Yo, I'm just sittin' here, zonin' out, thinkin' about how life is
Yo, life's general for us, you know? how we livin' out here, you know
Things we goin' through man, why we gotta go through this life, you know?
(Mega) Life is an interlude to death son, you ever thought about that?
(Man) Word, son. (echos out)
[Verse 1]
The saga begins
I'm a reflection of the drama within
The ghetto I live in, nigga's Moms on crack, Pops just disappeared
The first time you get locked up who really cares?
I see a little snotty nosed kid with his sneakers on backwards
Sleep on a mattress. When I go to make a sale
At times I wonder, are we goin' straight to Hell?
Or does God realize we're tryin' to make it as well? My sleep is interrupted by food on the stove
Not gun shots, we're immune to those Some of my friends' first bids are two to fours, others on the run with huge rewards
Mothers watch sons walk through the door
For the last time 'till they go view at the morgue
Life is deep, we all just tryin' to eat
Rap's a mental narcotic, I supply the streets
[Hook]
Look at my life, you see white coke and black roses
And tears shed for passed soldiers
We all walk in a path chosen
From the cradle 'till the casket's lowered
I still got the black ski mask to throw on
But I can get richer off the tracks I flow on I'd be lyin' if I said I wasn't hustlin' no more
Look at my life
[Verse 2]
Life ain't fair, Shorty pregnant with nowhere to live
Sleepin' in a crackhouse cause she don't got no relatives Her friends wanna drink brew and beef about whose sale it is
Now she's gettin' hungry, she smell the marijuana scent
I paint a picture vividly
As if Picasso's spirit entered me Starin' at the Heavens, secluded in a tinted jeep
I'm sick of hearin' eulogies I realize my nigga Blue is a reminder of my past like Greek ruins
Yet his seed keeps bloomin' Unaffected by police intrusions
Or street illusions we were consumed wit' I've even grown away from people I grew wit'
I mean we cool, but I don't need to bullshit
My mood could switch easily from smooth to ruthless
We ain't built the same so mind games are useless
Times change, like the climate I change
Check the forecast, I reign
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
Live niggas I rep for, deceased, I pour Moet for Those incarcerated, my heart is wit' y'all
I know at times it gets hard behind penitentiary bars
Then once free you realize you're mentally scarred
If not physically, if subjected to correctional facilities
Prepare for your future to the best of your ability
Prosper, otherwise
You've been conquered
Blowin' up your mother's phone so she can send you a box Son, I sit inside my residence
And thank God I'm blessed with this poetical gift evident in every
Ghetto like graffiti and crack sales
And cabs that won't stop for black males
Undercovers givin' younger brothers bad stares
Fours clap, dogs crap in the grass here You love to hear the story son, the saga began here
MC's are fictitious yet the actual facts here
Like the Bible said, Jesus had napped hair
I don't like this song....I LOVE IT!! props to Mega one of(if not the) illest in the game. Never a sell out , not banal. It's good to hear a true MC that can rap without saying pussy bitch fuck motherfucker i am the greatest i fuck a lot or shit like that.
This is that Hip-Hop i fell in love with.
saigon our babies is a similar song
I like ssss
check out my favorites for real hip hop
From the cr^dle till the casket lowers!!..
Where's big L in that list? You must not have heard of him
better
only a real thug like me can relate to this shit
Biggest saga no need remix allow no need bible part 2 allow , let's go this fellow meet a lady bad crowd parents hated each other one in castle one in valley some how go mega
YMCMB fans disliked the video
where the fuck are those lyrics????
Q U!
Mega & AZ > NAS
I kinda look like this ninja 🥷 but i rap better. He’s a better story teller
you obviously aint a thug then
dislike button should just be removed
Mega should keep his hair like on this pic