This Is What I Do

[Intro: AZ]

Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen

I'll like to thank you for your support, love

Not only to me, but to the whole hip-hop industry itself

We as a whole, we've been weathering in the Storm

From the start, 30-plus years ago to now

But uh, like all weapons of hate, we perceiver

So allow me to speak not only for me

But on behalf of the hip-hop coalition

Every hood, every ghetto across the United States of America

[Verse 1: AZ]

Yea, as a youngin' I was sittin'- spittin' sponge-in'

Just learnin' the life, and Christ second comin'

Well mannered and nice, got advice from women

But when the money get tight, the stomach start grumblin'

It was some of then, wasn't all Hammers then

Went in the Benz, it was kingpin and bubblin'

We started huddlin', puttin' in, and jugglin'

A shear later we straight, no more strugglin'

But that was only the start

The love between homey started fallin' apart

I guess anything's addictive when it's callin' your heart

Death and incarceration had us all in the dark

We was done, some'll say "we had a beautiful run"

And the beauty is skin deep was beneath the slums

I was numb, that was like speakin' in tongues

So relax, I adapt within a week I was sprung

Spoke facts on the track, it's like squeezin' a gun

No more crack, all the boys on my back hearin' "RUN"

Yea, I changed & came, all them years, on the stairs G Rap & Kane

I felt pain, them beamers still lurkin' my brain

But the ways is the most high is to preserve to explain

It was the fame, that focused me, perfected my game

And like that, there's so many others that this rap will remain

And in exchange, we give fans the force of the reign

To feed, nurture, and breed, and be the voice of the slain

It's a shame, but that real shit come wit the life

And in order to obtain you gotta sacrifice

It's like cuttin' your bitch shorter, don't pass on fights

I'ma tourer, so you know all my facts is right

Plus my Aurora is like used spoilers on the porch at night

So be polite, just go for them critics that write

This is Rap, we from the hood, just tryin' to get a slice

Some'll bite, but the most just coast wit ice

And rock a little chain, get a little brain

[Immediately changes to AZ talking]

Ha ha-ha ha, yea, hey, it is what it is

You know Rap has no rules

See my enlightener he-he once told me once said

"If there is no devilish-men, then there won't be Godliness"

"One can't exist without the other"

Knaw'mean?, it's like a Doctor is only needed to heal

And he caters to the sick, so the sick must exist, ya heard?

A Minister - he only gives sermon to - uh you know -

Those seeking for forgiveness - so them sinners must exist

You know? it's simple simplistic, ha ha-ha ha

It's AZ the GOD - Constantine - Quiet Money for life

This is What I Do, I'm here