Gather 'round, go ahead and stair   These street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition   Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears   I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition      And my return is more like a re-up   I hold a whole like a tea cup   World in one hand, while the other hand throw the peace up   My other hand throwin' we without the E up      I got like 5 more man, I'm somethin' like Shiva   In that Fall of Rome number 4 deluxe   See I bin around the world like the nomb   But I come from a zone where the homes' all beat up      The folks unknown and the stones' all meet up   Police tap my phones, got my songs on speaker   Say he's back to poems, got their domes all geeked up   To get up on they throwns and become young leaders      Opera put it on my culture, now if that ain't wrong   Imus got it from the rhymers, now if that ain't blown   They gave my man 44, now if that ain't long   I put it all on my shoulders, now if that ain't strong      I made it out alive from the streets of the West side C-H-I   Now of that ain't home, you betta tell 'em      Gather 'round, go ahead and stair   These street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition   Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears   I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition      And in my flyness, I've become the hero and the sidekick   The rider and the nigga that I ride with   In ya ear, like the maker of 'The Vivrant'   A salaam alaikum to the maker of 'The Vivrant'      Them other niggas I don't vibe with   Now I was 'bout three when the eyes went   But I can see everythin' that you tryin' be   You can't hide it      While you comin' out your throat like a hymlic   I came up out the belly like a high scrip   Only my circumstance revised it   Hijacked the role and went and shot the pilot   I'm tryin' go public so I can get to private      Then send Bizzy to go and get the pirates   Then hit Africa try to fix the virus   Go back to the hood, tell Huggie open the hydrants   R I P stack B, I'ma keep you alive kid      Dressed in somethin' so fresh and wonderful   F N F and S N double O P      Gather 'round, go ahead and stair   These street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition   Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears   I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition      Lupy, it's Snoopy, let's go out   Tip toe through the door do it doggy style   And tell all my chicks, in she I cock owe   Lupy hit the Lotto, Snoopy hit bottle      Dolomite tight they bite it might follow   Take this chill pill will niggas swallow   Recital is very homicidal   The big screen will capture you, 'cause it's hi-definition      Listen cookin' collard greens in the kitchen   Them alphabet boys on a mission   If you out to get cash you better get it quick fast   Now a days niggas get to snitchin' on your bitch ass      You and ya boys best believe in them toys out your game   Specially when a nigga know your real name   Blam blam with the blammer   Smile nephew your on candid camera, film at eleven      Dressed in somethin' so fresh and wonderful   F N F and S N double O P      Gather 'round, go ahead and stair   These street folks don't need permission, my life's in hi-definition   Listen with your eyes, follow with your ears   I don't need no intermission, my life's in hi-definition