The Red Carpet (feat. Raekwon-Evidence

[ti:The Red Carpet feat. Raekwon & Ras Kass] [ar:Evidence] [al:Cats & Dogs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Red Carpet (feat. Raekwon - Evidence [00:40.33]I set it off in the sunny distance no days existed [00:43.59]My patience led the way until the greatest love listened to me [00:46.83]I used to play the witness wait in the trenches [00:49.42]It's like the 6th man sits on different benches [00:51.79] [00:52.81]It's hard squeezing life in a sentence [00:54.81] [00:55.48]And if I do roll carpet with the red tint [00:57.82] [00:58.59]My entrance is what's between [01:00.51]When I exit it's Evidence left on the scene [01:03.43]Alchemist cut the record down to the bone [01:06.30]And with a record like this I take the world by storm [01:08.91] [01:10.04]Sky blessed the land of the brave [01:12.08]Understand where I stand my hand is made [01:14.79]From BR Double-O KLYN the planet [01:17.79]Family landed managed to raise the man that I became [01:21.38]Panic on my first campaign [01:23.02]But when the words fell to place I was certain to reign [01:26.12]I hit the purple then step in the circle and start flexin' [01:28.87] [01:29.38]Weatherman invented now storms change directions [01:31.62] [01:32.13]Portions of my proceeds is feeding my homies now [01:35.29]I always shared pretty good for an only child [01:38.18]I was the baby boy I could do no wrong [01:41.12]Now the role's reversed I'm putting people on [01:44.12]They on welfare you got healthcare [01:46.63]They used to have their priorities elsewhere [01:49.02] [01:49.69]I took rims and tires and traded them [01:52.00]For a ticket to an island that's where [01:54.23]I wrote this rhyming [01:55.16]Where I first saw my vision [01:56.82] [01:57.57]Driven by a better living a place to raise kids in [02:00.36] [02:00.92]So I think like I rule the world [02:03.17]On the brink of something bigger building schools [02:05.86]For boys and girls [02:06.81]The thought of home gets me out of my bed [02:09.02]I said you got the tools [02:10.26]Get them shits up out of the shed C'mon [02:12.25] [02:23.34]I'm like the indispit of rhyming [02:25.08]The Jack Dempsey emcee [02:26.66]All my sh*t customed out [02:28.25]( ) eventually [02:29.54]Money is made fly blades [02:31.34]A woman with brains will help a black ni**a reign [02:34.11]My lifestyle's a prowler [02:35.48]A rich loaner owner [02:37.26]Used to pump at coffees shops [02:38.89]Had my b**ch who sell with me rolling up [02:40.97]Fly a** and still classy [02:42.73]Asking questions like "Why you wait on that glass [02:45.59]Why would you splash me " [02:46.97]Yo it's only ni**a sh*t [02:48.67]I'm a teach you like how I was taught too [02:50.95]Hold the phone Ward 2 [02:52.34]Seeing all kinds of grey fossils [02:54.16]Colossal juice pick the house act fly [02:57.18]I got you No need to walk backwards [02:59.69]F**k with the taxes [03:00.59]I speak credibility the story to masses [03:03.76]Yo a diplomatic winner Nik boots [03:06.47]A scully good denim jean on and one rental [03:09.04] [03:20.60]They say you only live once I disagree [03:22.84]You only live twice: your life enable your seed [03:26.24]So I lead on whacks and feed em the deeds [03:28.98]So when I die they got a foundation on my publishing B [03:31.99]Plus the words that I speak here's my family jewels [03:34.60]It ain't all blood diamonds but like experienced fools [03:37.73]And I be rhyming cool but my philosophy's deep [03:40.41]Like a Dear John letter so read em and weep [03:43.30]And the wolf smells blood: you can feed em to me [03:46.13]But I'm a Lycan underworld you can meet in the street [03:48.87] [03:49.41]Draw heat but what happened to peace [03:51.93]He got a Dirty Sanchez like what happened to Screech [03:54.89]Jesus diarrhea's - I mean holy sh*t [03:57.64]Christ on a cracker that's just how we spit [04:00.55]Communion: had the wine make the sign of the cross [04:03.51]And I will live in the past chalk it up as a loss [04:06.26]Went from "please listen to my demo " [04:08.32]To stretch limo [04:09.31]To the penn in a cell watching Eminem on Jimmy Kimmel [04:12.17]But I can't go out like Timbo slice [04:14.40]Like Geena Korrano a cyborg determinate [04:17.42]Mano a mano still Ronald McDonald [04:19.75]Over one billion served [04:21.38]But it's up to me to get what I deserve [04:23.57]So I handle my biz and hustle harder than the norm [04:26.30]The early bird gets the worm but the hawk gets the bird