(+) Stevie Wonder - Visions
I woke up out that coma 2001
About the same time Dre dropped 2001
Two years later the album is done
Aftermath presents nigga wit an attitude volume one
Rap critics politicin, wanna know the outcome
Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, and Doggystyle in one
I feel like Pac after the Snoop Dogg trial was done
Dre behind that G series and all eyes on me
I watched the death of a dynasty
So I told Vibe Magazine working with Dr. Dre was a dream
I had visions of making a classic, then my world turned black
Like I was staring outta Stevie Wonder's glasses
It's kinda hard to imagine, like Kanye West
Coming back from his fatal accident to be making it rapping
But we the future, Whitney Houston told me that
And It's gonna take more than a bullet in the heart to hold me back
Pushing in this forty ounce,
Letting the ink from my pen bleed
Cause Martin Luther King had a "dream"
Aaliyah had a "dream", Left Eye had a "dream"
So I reached out to Kanye and brought you all my dreams
Verse 2
I had dreams of fucking an r&b bitch like Mya
When I seen that ass on the front of that King
Read the article in the magazine, she loves gangstas, loves nasty things
So I'm in the maybach having nasty dreams
Good girls never give it up, but anything is possible if Fifty fucking with Vivica
Hurdle life's obstacles, find my way through the maze
Then turned joy to pain like Frankie Beverly and Maze
Used to dream of being unsigned hype till I was crushed by Dave Mayes
Almost let my pen fall asleep on the page, daydreaming yesterday
Dosing off backstage I thought I saw Eazy talking to Jam Master Jay
So I walked over heard Jam Master say
It's a hard knock life, then you pass away
They say sleep is the cousin of death,
So my eyes wide open, cuz a dream is kin to your last breath
Pushing in this forty ounce,
Letting the ink from my pen bleed
Cause Martin Luther King had a "dream"
Aaliyah had a "dream", Left Eye had a "dream"
So I reached out to Kanye and brought you all my dreams
The dream Huey Newton that's what I'm living through
The dream of Eric Wright that's what I'm giving you
Who walked through the white house without a business suit
Compton had jheri curl dripping on Ronald Reagan shoes
Gave Mike Lynn my demo came here to pay my dues
Started out with Whookid than I started blazing Clue
It was all a dream like Big said it be
Don't sleep on me homie I bring nightmares to reality
Rap phenomenon defying the rules of gravity
Studied all the classics start revising my strategy
Cause Marshall Mathers made it Curtis Jackson made it
Head in clouds wondering where the hell Marvin Gaye went
How do I say this I'm living for my son
But I can't figure out why I'm at my temple with a gun
Wake up to a Jesus piece like Catholic nun
The war to be a rap legend has just begun
Pushing in this forty ounce,
Letting the ink from my pen bleed
Cause Martin Luther King had a "dream"
Aaliyah had a "dream", Left Eye had a "dream"
So I reached out to Kanye and brought you all my dreams