This Goes Out to You

[Steele] Let it be known, you can't keep a good man down Hard time, hardly wear me down The strong survive, what comes around, go around When the going get rough, we ride, lord, hold me down Blood, sweat and pain, take it and strive Nothin to do, it's breakin' my pride My eyes on the prize, been through, tribulations and trials I realize, I'm still gonna rise [Buckshot] I need one hundred percent, undivided attention Provided you mention, Black Moon is back And all the questions, like Smif-N-Wessun Changin' their name to Cocoa Brovaz, did it ruin the track? Let's think back, like the song I made So we can reminisce the rights and the all wrongs I made Don't get it twisted, I don't progress shit I don't remember, but I don't forget, shit That's how the game go, things get harder to spit What's real love, without pain, the part of the shit Who knows, few blow, few will get dough It's the reason so many rappers never move with the flow But I've shown, that I'm prone, to keep going Cuz I flown, this goes out to you This goes out to you [Hook 2X: Steele, Buckshot] This goes out to you, and out to you Who didn't believe I wouldn't achieve My goals, yo, I'm so, out of control I just don't know [Buckshot] I started out with nothing, got a little talent Came up with something, got a little violent It was hardly thumpin', everybody fakin' moves While I'm makin' moves and that party jumpin' What part of me bluffin, huh? I don't see one See guns, he run, leave sons with nothing Stranded --- handle it, stress on my chest Like a tight lamel lid, I just --- Breathe in, breathe out, see what he about And if there's no cheese, we leave him out Cuz niggas see the route that I'm on Big movers for the kid to rule, everything abroad See I was taught to write everything I saw Been around the world, from the US to Singapore You can learn a thing or more, from the veteran No calm, wanna learn no more, just get a pen [Hook 2X] [Buckshot] Me and Dru hooked up in '93 Started out as a management, then a record company Even then they wasn't bumpin' me, but I ain't give a fuck Still represented, every time I had to give them Buck On stage in the studio, or on screen They stayed out of sight, out of mind, if you off the scene Knah'mean, I do too much for me to be enlightened That's the reason, when you see me, you see me at night Walkin', by myself, spliff lit by my lip, gun by my belt Yellin' out, Duck Down is the label Plus a million soldiers with me, nigga Now that we able to make moves, and slay crews And pay dues, cuz they rule This goes out to you, this goes out to you [Hook 2X]