[ti:Family Tree] [ar:Naughty By Nature] [al:Iicons] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Family Tree - Naughty By Nature [00:03.77]Sometimes because of jealousy and the intent to demise [00:07.28]Certain factions have to be forbidden or destroyed [00:10.69]Fire has to be sent to the poisoned forest [00:13.48]With the root of fresh trees planted elsewhere [00:17.19]Only then will you obtain a wilderness [00:19.34]That cannot be penetrated petrified family tree [00:23.30]See what started as a family forest [00:25.33]Got cut to a family tree with the limbs [00:27.83]And the leaves looking' at the world for answers [00:30.50]The world points to the sun and the sun says [00:32.75]The answers in me so I search through the darkness [00:35.38]Can't find the key so we locked in the land of the lost [00:38.33]Lord please [00:39.14]Tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me [00:41.22]So now we choose the roots so we can plant new trees [00:44.21]Many minds always meet with pens and sheets [00:46.46]Close my eyes think what next on my rhymes [00:48.46]See this face in ink [00:49.87]I'm havin' visions of wisdom [00:51.47]Dreamin' 'bout my own ending [00:52.60]Am I seein' death as freedom and livin' as prison [00:55.18]My son didn't have a daddy to shape him so [00:57.26]God bless him with a daddy to save him [00:59.12]Yeah I raise him and pay some attention [01:01.46]He talked and he listened to reach him and teach him [01:03.78]Before I'm gone from existence [01:05.45]Teach him 'bout the foes the hos and all opponents [01:08.01]Those that always talk 'bout love but never showed it [01:10.63]Those who had the chances to stand and always blowed it [01:13.30]Those that set you up by the hour to steal your moment [01:15.78]Pac the word is you ain't there so f**k the rumor [01:18.09]I'll get a pound of that sh*t from bermuda [01:19.90]And meet you in cuba [01:21.05]F**ked up on larusa no doubt [01:22.73]I know the locale [01:23.39]If they gotta born you [01:24.52]I'm gonna mourne you 'til [01:25.53]I join you [01:26.23]See what started as a family forest [01:27.94]Got cut to a family tree with the limbs [01:30.58]And the leaves [01:31.55]Looking' at the world for answers [01:32.99]The world points to the sun and the sun says [01:35.23]The answers in me so [01:36.53]I search through the darkness [01:37.94]Can't find the key [01:38.80]So we locked in the land of the lost [01:40.84]Lord please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me [01:44.18]So now we choose the roots so we can plant new trees [01:47.51]Uhh and now I know [01:48.69]I got some family [01:49.58]Who missed me from the heart forever we're apart [01:52.30]Just because [01:52.77]I'm nothin' and you abuse me and use me [01:54.94]Now you wanna try to come bruise me [01:56.63]And even though maybe were in there [01:58.27]Farther than it once was I know family don't always [02:00.93]Mean that they blood 'cause some people just [02:03.39]Don't give a ni**a what [02:04.68]Some people tried to use my name [02:06.16]So all the fat we had to cut and I'm still [02:09.05]Walking with my six amp strut [02:10.25]Urban eyes see through camouflage [02:11.39]And now I know who's butt [02:12.68]So when I sent you tried to play me [02:14.36]All of a sudden now I'm shady [02:15.43]Maybe deep down in my heart [02:16.97]Never trust you from the start [02:18.22]Never hoped you'd be my homie don't come 'round my way [02:20.51]And if we never speak again it's got to be that way [02:23.12]This millennium we'll be spankin' your heiny [02:25.65]Remind thee naughty invented family of the 90's [02:28.39]See what started as a family forest [02:30.61]Got cut to a family tree with the limbs [02:33.21]And the leaves [02:33.89]Looking' at the world for answers [02:35.72]The world points to the sun and the sun says [02:37.84]The answers in me so [02:39.19]I search through the darkness [02:40.49]Can't find the key [02:41.50]So we locked in the land of the lost [02:43.28]Lord please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me [02:46.74]So now we choose the roots so we can plant new trees [02:49.88]Life doesn't end when the sweat dries [02:51.56]A time when a nickle cost a dollar [02:53.35]When you rise your chest dies [02:55.22]My dynasty many fear it cos' I'm near it [02:57.49]Ancient egyptian scriptures [02:58.66]Fitted in through hyroglyphics [03:00.25]Motherf**kers try to touch my mental state [03:02.54]Niggas smile up in your face and then they infiltrate [03:05.14]So it seems nowadays that the only plan [03:07.55]To get my people help my people get a load of land [03:10.50]And Im'ma see it if [03:11.42]I have to kill some sh*t [03:12.81]To make my family tree a motherf**king wilderness [03:15.39]See a black man standin' on the promised land [03:18.00]Since they broke every promise [03:19.52]I devised a plan this [03:21.17]Black this and black [03:22.29]That crap is gettin' touchy [03:23.34]Any black hat that 'cross my path [03:25.28]I call him lucky [03:26.13]Those who turn they back with they fears [03:27.66]And try to before they can see us [03:29.79]They gonna need us sweet jesus [03:31.32]See what started as a family forest [03:33.18]Got cut to a family tree with the limbs [03:35.85]And the leaves [03:36.77]Looking' at the world for answers [03:38.35]The world points to the sun and the sun says [03:40.43]The answers in me so [03:41.82]I search through the darkness [03:43.11]Can't find the key [03:44.20]So we locked in the land of the lost [03:46.12]Lord please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me [03:49.03]So now we choose the roots [03:50.42]So we can plant new trees [03:52.08]See what started as a family forest [03:54.20]Got cut to a family tree with the limbs [03:56.49]And the leaves [03:57.63]Looking' at the world for answers [03:59.27]The world points to the sun and the sun says [04:01.23]The answers in me so [04:02.79]I search through the darkness [04:04.08]Can't find the key [04:05.17]So we locked in the land of the lost [04:07.19]Lord please tomorrow ain't promised to you nor me [04:09.89]So now we choose the roots [04:11.33]So we can plant new trees