I know you're dreaming dreaming you can take me out but just think cuz that's something to think about I'm trad so don't think you can take me out start thinking before you put your foot in your mouth cuz I'm not the one to be slept upon my rap is smooth and a step beyond but it took a little time for the skill to grow and it took a lot of time for my thoughts to flow I want to tell you a story so sit and wait gonna take you to a time when I wasn't so great when I used to run the streets with Mitch Mack socks in the summer of 1984 was hot the gyms in the park were really dope and the girls on the block were playing jump rope but I couldn't hang out with the guys who hung cuz my mother always told me I was just too young but she couldn't understand what it meant to me that the parties in the park is where I had to be but way back then I couldn't see she would always disapprove but I didn't care cuz if a jam was in the park I just had to be there she would send me to my room and then lock the door but it really didn't matter cuz I lived on the first floor I thought about the girls I couldn't wait to meet so I jumped out the window then I hit the street when the music started pumping everybody got up the Vernon Posse had the dance floor all sold up that's what I thought partying was all about despite a few fights and a few shootouts everybody kept partying without a care you had to have fun cuz it was in the air from blocks away you can hear them shout and it got real hype until the power went out it only lasts for a minute but it felt so long till the DJ got up and put the power back on everybody kept dancing till the records grew so I pushed up on the cutie and we started to move it felt too good to be true to me my eyes are mesmerized by the DJ's cuts and I knew later on I would have a sore butt so I sat and thought what the beat would be like but I would take several beats just to get on the mic see unlike other kids I wasn't athletic but as I grew I realized I was poetic when other kids would want to play with their friends I would rather sit and daydream about my bands with them and them as I yeah that would be me my mother used to watch me curiously but no one really ever took me seriously they used to laugh and kiss me but it was okay cuz I knew deep inside I would make it one day I did a lot of hoping and wishing way back then cuz I knew I would make it but I didn't know when cuz through my dreams I couldn't see