Mass hallucination baby Ill education baby Want to reconnect with your elations This is your station baby But what am I supposed to do The good kid, m.A.A.d. city Look inside these walls and you see them having withdrawals Of a prisoner on his way

Oh oh oh I wanna go crazy Whoa yeah it felt good on my lips You can go crazy too I wanna go crazy with you Everybody sayin' whoa how sweet it is Whoa how sweet it is She said her name was a hand me down name From the side of a family that long ago came

I put that battery in his back I'm the reason why he move like that That's my muh'fuckin toy soldier I tell him pop that gat, he gon' pop that gat You don't wanna play with my toy soldier I say it's on then it's on until your life is over Fuckin' with my

If only he knew Just stand up and scream The tainted clock is counting down You gave in to me Would you say the nights are far too long now If only he knew about the world without the bullshit and the lies We could've saved him They could've saved me

'Cause even then I was infatuated with just sitting at the top And I don't owe nobody in the world no favors I started from the basement, made it to the skyscrapers I'm a successful nigga, I got shit going on I'm a successful Don, I got shit going on I

These streets aren't paved with gold Don't believe everything that you're told Deception hides in all you see Corruption hangs in the air that you breathe And in the land of the free You know nothing comes for free These colours don't run, Like colours

Talking to the feds that's a no-no I can get bread with my eyes closed Insecure, so she got lipo VVSs on me, that's a light show It can get litty like a light show Nigga I'm litty like a light show If it's 'bout money, I'ma go-go But the-, bro, she a

My people back home This is for my people back home We're lighting one up, feel the love We wouldn't be here without ya Mix it strong, pour it out no doubt We're always thinking about ya Ain't gonna let you down Just wanna make you proud

Play by the rules You're gonna miss all the fun He was a melon stealin' A do-it-anywayin' Playin' hooky from school A water tower poet class of '73 He'd say by God you better know it if you're runnin' with me

Ddrat, da-da-da-um-da Look back at it I get goosebumps when I look at it She ain’t never do this before, but she good at it Oh, girls just wanna have fun with it These girls ain’t really no good for me, yeah Ddrat, da-da, da Drdat, da-da-da, da Ddrat,