Verse One

I don't love to leave?/Raised you from your situation
treated you like my seed/ Giving you what you want
and providing to all your needs/No need to beg and
plead/ I'm here through it all/Here to catch you when
you fall/Accepting 2 minute Calls/You Could have been
lone gone/A prison keepsake/but we held on and held
strong/And those Kingpin charges,
expunged/Now what the hell's wrong?
/And life's right?/Why do we live and breathe?
/Show no love, compassion or sympathy?
/Food for thought gets literally taken /like Adam coaxed
by Eve/Hence our beginning is our end/And it's a battle
ground we stand on so firmly/

It's you and I/And we survive/ hustle with unity/ (Hassan Farrow)

Hook
4 x Ingredients of Life

Verse Two

Playing catch up when we were caught up/Played the
fool/Now we play like fools on free time/My time is
your time/ And our time is kept like the face on my
wrist/Celebrating a New Edition?
/Hated when Bobby Brown went solo,
left New Edition/And if you a man then to your woman
you would take time to listen/Got chips on my shoulder/So
you know the money must come long/It's pricey to stay
icey/Man just ask the wife See,
/Life to me/Is a composite,
kaleidoscope, collage of many things/As humans we emote/Harboring
anger, frustration and greed/All off of hard laboring/401K
no longer okay/Living day to day/The new American way/Outsourcing
is crushing dreams/The new era Depression/History changed/Barack
Obama First black president/

Hook

4 x Ingredients of Life

Verse Three

Hustled through this Rap Game/Brought songwriting skills
and abilities to shame/And dreams and aspirations to
waste/Who am I to blame/Young as okay and naïve to
this game/Now I crack the Piggy Bank like 50 Cents
on the dollar/Introduced to my new self/Putting alcohol
consumption and puffing lye on the shelf/Now a little
wiser/Competitors young enough to be sons/Hanging on
boot straps/After a stint of fame/Understand,
it's important to give back/Listened to Michael Jackson's
album/Literally Off the Wall/Tapes of Anita Baker,
Billie Ocean and a 8-track of War/My taste for Mozart
and Beethoven /So classical/And with my love for music/
I promise to compose more/Grow more/Allowing my friends
and fam to eat/Listen to others as well I speak/

Hook

8 x Ingredients of Life