My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.