Dear Slim

La la la la la la (dear Slim)

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Dear Slim, I never wrote you or been calling

My name ain't Stan, son, nah, we've never met and

My name's KJ, let me begin by introducing now

Myself to you and these very reasons I'll be writing

Why I took the time, and the Who, What, Where, and Why, and

The purpose of my verse and the reasons I'm reciting

What I hope you're learning from the truth I pray you're

finding

And every word I'm writing down upon the dotted lines, and

See, I heard ya first album, it was called Infinite

I shook my head 'cause nowadays you sounding different

What drove ya to take your whole persona and be flipping it

Now, what makes a man totally change, see, I ain't getting it

See, was you sick of getting booed when you was ripping it

And sick of never having dough, and you wanted to put an end to

it?

What good's all kinds of dough plus all kinds of flow

To gain a world of fans, but suffer the loss of soul?

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La la la la la la

La la la la la la la la (to whom it may concern)

Dear Slim, I never wrote you or been calling

This is my 2nd letter cause, see, son, I got some real problems

It's that to you that I'm always catching these comparisons

And after shows, I got these people coming up to me saying

"You sound like Slim Shady, son, you sound like Eminem."

And, I be like "Now, really man, do I gots to go through this

again."

See I used to get mad and sick of people saying that

Till at this one show this one day I met this one cat

He told me how he used to listen to you, but now listens to me

Had your LP, but threw it out and bought my CD

I'm like "For real?" He's like "Yeah." He said my music made a

difference

It got him away from all your words and images

Gotta mention this now, what about the effects you have on

kids?

You ever stop to think about the millions you influence?

Or is it just irrelevant, is it a true life you telling it?

Or just a way for some record companies selling it?

The only thing we got in common in our melanin, or lack of it

But anyways, now, this is what I'm saying

It's for you that I'm on my knees, now, daily praying

Praying that God opens your eyes now to what I'm relaying

Now, I'm praying that's it's your heart that'll soon be

changing

Praying one day that you'll be calling upon his name and

But anyway, I'm signing off now, don't keep me waiting

This is KJ, another cat just trying to make it.

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Dear Slim, I heard about the stuff you's going through

See, I could relate to you, 'cause, son, I'm about as old as

you

See, we both know what's it's like

Just to be growing up, to be in a neighborhood

When you's the one and only kid that's white

Or to get booed when you on the mic

Just because your skin is light, it ain't right

But sometimes you know that's life, but, really, tell me what

you do?

You just push on with hopes on that somedays you'll put on your

crew?

I hope you understand that I ain't even dissin' you

And even though it's a song you'll probably never listen to

See what I send to you is this

Is that a life without Christ is just a life that is never

fixed

I hope you remember this now a few sentences

About a living God who loves you and plus forgives

And, I'll be praying for your ex-wife and plus your kid

It's hard to live in a world as crazy as this one is

And, even though now it really might sound redundant

God's got mad love for you up in a mad abundance

You'll sell a couple mil, I'll probably sell a couple hundred

There's more to life than selling records and just getting

blunted

But, anyway, that's really all I gots to say

Just another word from an emcee now around the way

Maybe someday we meet each other in some way

Till then, one love, one God, one way.

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