Family Tree - Naughty By Nature

Sometimes because of jealousy and the intent to demise

Certain factions have to be forbidden or destroyed

Fire has to be sent to the poisoned forest

With the root of fresh trees planted elsewhere

Only then will you obtain a wilderness

That cannot be penetrated, petrified — family tree

See what started as a family forest got cut

To a family tree with the limbs and the leaves

Looking' at the world for answers;

the world points to the sun

And the sun says the answers in me

So I search through the darkness, can’t find the key

So we locked in the land of the lost;

Lord, please

Tomorrow ain’t promised to you nor me

So now we choose the roots, so we can plant new trees

Many minds always meet with pens and sheets

Close my eyes, think what next on my rhymes, see this face in ink

I’m havin' visions of wisdom, dreamin' 'bout my own ending

Am I seein' death as freedom and livin' as prison

My son didn’t have a daddy to shape him

So God bless him with a daddy to save him, Yeah, I raise him

And pay some attention, he talked and he listened

To reach him and teach him fefore I’m gone from existence

Teach him 'bout the foes, the ho’s and all opponents

Those that always talk 'bout love but never showed it

Those who had the chances to stand and always blowed it

Those that set you up by the hour to steal your moment

Pac the word is you ain’t there so fuck the rumor

I’ll get a pound of that shit from Bermuda and meet you in Cuba

Fucked up on Larusa no doubt, I know the locale

If they gotta born you, I’m gonna mourn you 'til I join you

Uhh, and now I know I got some family

Who missed me from the heart, forever we’re apart

Just because I’m nothin' and you abuse me and use me

Now you wanna try to go bruise me

And even though maybe we’ll end up farther than it once was

I know family don’t always mean that they blood, cause

Some people just don’t give a nigga what

Some people tried to use my name so all the fat we had to cut

And I’m still walking with my six amp strut

Urban eyes see through camouflage and now I know who’s butt

So when I sent you tried to play me, all of a sudden now I’m shady

Maybe deep down in my heart, never trust you from the start

Never hoped you’d be my homie, don’t come 'round my way

And if we never speak again, it’s got to be that way

This millennium, we’ll be spankin' your heiny

Remind thee Naughty invented family of the 90's

Life doesn’t end when the sweat dries

A time when a nickle cost a dollar, when you rise, your chest dies

My dynasty many fear it 'cos I’m near it

Ancient Egyptian scriptures fitted in through hyroglyphics

Motherfuckers try to touch my mental state

Niggas smile up in your face and then they infiltrate

So it seems nowadays that the only plan

To get my people help my people get a load of land

And I’ma see it if I have to kill some shit

To make my family tree a motherfucking wilderness

See a black man standin' on the promised land

Since they broke every promise, I devised a plan

This black this and black that crap is gettin' touchy

Any black hat that cross my path, I call him lucky

Those who turn they back with they fears and try to D us

Before they can see us they gonna need a sweet Jesus