[ti:Sincerely Yours (Explicit Version)]
[ar:Little Brother]
[al:The Minstrel Show]
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[00:00.00]Sincerely Yours (Explicit Version) - Little Brother
[00:04.42]Whatever goes around comes around
[00:09.73]Every lifetime is a lesson this is what I found
[00:13.97]No matter who you are (It don't matter)
[00:16.78]Gonna have your ups and downs
[00:18.73]Time to come up baby time to come up
[00:20.66]It's whatever
[00:21.01]Whatever goes around comes around
[00:24.07]Uh yo uh I walk wit' a swag of a letterman
[00:28.62]No amateur here I'm a veteran
[00:31.33]You couldn't find many more who is better than
[00:34.32]Big Pooh when he rocking the mic
[00:36.59]No games no hype just mind and skills
[00:39.33]Pure determination and a heart full of will
[00:42.23]My ni**a Tiggalo held me down for real
[00:44.91]But it's time now for me to ante up on the bills
[00:48.24]'Cause at the point when we signed our deal
[00:50.67]I was three years young now I'm five plus some
[00:53.95]Write to the beat of 9th's wonderful drum
[00:56.87]Overhung by the snare and the bassline
[00:58.93]It's face time commentators they deface my
[01:02.49]Place I pick up the pace 'cause I belong here
[01:05.23]Marathon man outlastin the chariot
[01:08.31]I got a bone to pick and 'bout to bury it
[01:10.66]This letter goes out to whoever want read it (whoever)
[01:13.28]Please share it with the world 'cause
[01:14.63]I won't repeat it (I won't repeat it)
[01:16.27]Believe me I know who all need it
[01:18.62]So for you I wrote this letter (check it out)
[01:21.57]I woke up wit' an epiphany (What )
[01:24.80]It's like this feelin' came over me (WHAT )
[01:27.94]'Cause right is where I'm 'posed to be
[01:30.09]So for you I wrote this letter
[01:32.21]Uh yo I awoke wit' a lot on my chest
[01:35.85]And every breath that I took wasn't gettin'
[01:38.08]Any better P
[01:39.20]I swear some niggaz wish they could replace me
[01:41.86]No bullshittin' I watched the rumors chase me
[01:44.83]'Til it had me in the corner (back down)
[01:46.96]I mean my back against the wall yo
[01:48.60]I thought I was a goner
[01:50.13]I let the pressure get the best of
[01:52.19]I let words make a mess of what's left of
[01:54.65]My pride but
[01:56.16]I refuse to hide behind the silence and smiles
[01:58.34]It's been a while though you hearin' me now
[02:01.16]Remember every foul comment that you
[02:02.99]Motherf**kers spoke
[02:04.04]Well I Rakim niggaz now no joke
[02:06.86]This is no hoax back to bench scrubs like
[02:09.24]Tremaine Foulks
[02:09.61]Coast to coast please put up a toast
[02:12.43]For the most slept on
[02:14.27]Better open your eyes 'fore yo' a** get crept on surprise
[02:18.58]This letter goes out to whoever will read it (whoever)
[02:21.09]Please share it with the world 'cause
[02:22.44]I won't repeat it (I won't repeat it)
[02:24.20]Believe me I know who all need it
[02:26.42]So for you I wrote this letter (check it out)
[02:29.07]I woke up wit' an epiphany (What )
[02:32.48]It's like this feelin' came over me (WHAT )
[02:35.65]'Cause right is where I'm 'posed to be
[02:37.98]So for you I wrote this letter (uh yo)
[02:51.48]"The Minstrel Show" is taped in front of
[02:53.18]A live studio audience
[02:53.88]At Chop Shop Studios in Durham North Carolina
[02:56.45]Funding for "The Minstrel Show"
[02:57.85]Is provided by the Atlantic Group
[02:59.39]In association with ABB Records
[03:01.87]Production design by Frank William Miller Jr
[03:04.84]Executive producers: Lowest and Common Denominator
[03:07.49]On behalf of everyone at the UBN Network
[03:10.55]This is your announcer Pete Rosenburg
[03:12.10]Saying thank you
[03:13.63]For tuning in to the biggest colored show on earth