Yo, just think, if you could rewind time
And start your life all over again
What would you give, and what would you keep?
You heard me, what would you keep?
If I could go back, I wouldn't have sold no crack
Wouldn't have never put my hands around no gat
But you know Loon, bein all hardheaded
And don't listen, even if God said it
I didn't have to stick with folks that sniffed no coke
I didn't have to fix the block when shit was broke
Same cats I helped was twistin smoke
Now imagine if I went to school, went to class
Instead of bein a young cat, sent to blast
Sent to slash, criminals necks in half
For playin dumb when I come to collect my cash
Because of that cats don't respect my past
If I could start from scratch I'd sign to Def Jam
Nah, shit, I'm not sayin Puff's the best man
Plus I'm a bad boy, more like a bad man
Put mo' lead in pits than Brad man
Can't dodge bullets, too bad man
Shoulda either copped the five instead of the six
That way wouldn'ta crashed and killed my cousin
Kept quiet instead of havin, the industry buzzin
Do it Devil's advocate style, don't let 'em see you comin
Use the revolver when bustin and sluggin
That way no evidence, but faggot got money
To be tried, worse come to worse
Who God bless, no man curse
Hatin ass lay in the dirt
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
Yo, if I could start life from scratch I wouldn't change shit
Same gun, same clip, same dumb shit
All out, Harlem World, same ol' clique
Same ol' studio, same ol' shit
Shit don't change, just because a cop took six to the brain
Me no got a lawyer man I'm hip to the game
You can find a gun but if my prints ain't on that thang
What is you sayin?
And on the same block, that I get my Glocks from
You see the same cop, that get popped with the shotgun
And at the same bodega I got my tops from
I give the same ol' money to the same cops from
If I could start from scratch, I'd bring daddy back
And put five in the first cat that showed mommy crack
I'd sit back and listen to them drunks on the block
Tryin to school me with jewels, tellin me who to watch
I'd kill five people I let survive
And the five I took away, I'da left alive
If I could do it all again, I'd bring Virg back
Or I'd switch plates with him, I hope you heard that
I woulda preferred that
I ain't have to starve, pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge
And I'd do it all again, if I had to
Pitch snow in the wind, and I'd be glad to
And I hit every target, I took aim at
But I'd still be a problem, you can't change that
I'm a problem
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
Yo, I really don't know what's goin on
I'm tellin y'all I really really don't know what's goin on
Yo, cause half the cats that flipped, we all was cool
And half the chicks I hit, they tease me in school
I got a baby by a lady I don't even love a lot
Wish I wore three rubbers cause the first rubber popped
But you can't cry now, that milk already spilt
I had eleven friends and ten already killed
One down South and I ain't feel the guilt
They ain't ready to war, but that ain't the way he built
And for, all the nights, and all the fights
That I had for all this money over all these dice
All my cars and homes, and all my ice
If I could do it all again I'd do it all for Christ
Whoever thought the limelight, or the superstardom
Whoever thought it'd be a problem comin through Harlem
Can't even chill, cats wanna make me a villain
Cats that I grew up with I gotta contemplate killin
Nobody love me, I'm my own mister, and on my own
Missed her, momma did what she could, but now I'm grown mister
Though she told me once, wish she told me then
Though I'm the youngest, I'mma grow to be the oldest man
And cats thinkin they gon' win cause they veterans
Ain't about age at this age man with the most cheddar win
How you live right, everyday gettin ready to sin?
How you say no, at the do' screamin let me in?
From the outside, it's lookin gooder than it ever been
To tell the truth when I was broke it was better then
All out, 33rd street
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where it's at?