I came from nothing but not nothing like "nothing"
"Nothing", like "nobody thought I was something"
"Nothing", like "called every name in the book",
But for every second guess
I never gave a second look
Look, I fell myself
"Don't let it get to me.
cuz if the best the got is not impressing me,
then there's no reason they should get the best of me,
While they were aiming at my words
They missed the rest of me
How can I stop all these critics from their talking
the more I do, the more they say
But there's no way I'm stopping
so they just keep on talking
Who do you think I think I am?
I got the felling that there's more like me
Born in Babylon but you just got to be free
Shackles on your feet that you and me can't see,
but you can feel them and they're heavy,
so you need that key
and now you're looking at your hand, saying
"Man, if I ditch the system, these could be mine"
but then you hear a voice come up from behind,
"Don't even think about stepping out of line "
solo
My friends are deep and they're all I got,
and they stand up behind me if you like it or not
and I'm telling you that the Fire's Hot,
did you see that smoke
and did you hear that shot
Cuz it's a war and in the middle I am
So judge now with your pen in hand
Cuz I'm too busy to judge another man,
I'm trying to write the blueprint
for all the world to understand
this part of the song is sang whit the chorus.