Oh no, it’s Optimo and VITAL who got you moving again / influencing a movement in self-improvement so bring you and a friend / plus two and that’ll add to the math of us, we, you and them / tuning in to the music brought to you by two elusive men / and ya’ll should know my name by now, it’s more than a pseudonym / it’s soothing like the lubricants ya’ll use to get the smoothest trim / who is him, well that is I, I’m an adonai to you hooligans / a dueling iron mic whose bringing le coup de grace accoutrements /

C: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / that’s why I’m raising my fist / sometimes I feel like a motherless child / cuz if this system gets you crazy, we gon spin a big 180 like this / sometimes I feel like a motherless child / and I’ma have to insist / (sometimes I feel like a motherless child) / that through the thick and thin to whomever been listening, my mission’s been to make my namesake great by taking these risks /

Now please be seated eagerly and freeze as I decrease degrees / you’ll see we lethal like the HIV from ninety Eazy-Es / and vis-a-vis, twenty-seven Pacs couldn’t stand these shots and breathe / if he was bulletproof and Suge had that Michael J. Fox disease / I said it—I get ahead of my better whenever / and mom dukes is like you ever gon get it together / (Oh Yeah) / cuz all I do is what I’ve known from / Spice 1 to Bone Thugs to being fully grown up /

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Hello, how ya’ll do today, let me hit the microphone up like a true sensei / better get up out my way with the rhyme clichés /cuz I resurrect the evidence all up in three days / like the savior, major or minor / if you’re really a contender, don’t be scared if I find ya / blind ya with the ministry and it’ll be honesty, cuz I’m bringing the epitome of a true headliner / DJ…

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They call him VITAL, when you hear it, ya’ll like uh-huh / cuz now he coming, running with the distant thunder / and ya’ll amazed in a daze of wide wonder / cuz when he tears the track asunder ya’ll like thumbs up / they call him VITAL, once you know it, ya’ll like that’s right / controlling darkness like incendiary flash lights / or a match to a crack pipe / even if he’s sinking knee deep into the freedom of the fast life /

C2: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / that’s why I’m raising my fist / sometimes I feel like a motherless child / cuz if this system gets you crazy, we gon spin a big 180 like this / sometimes I feel like a motherless child / and I’ma have to persist / (sometimes I feel like a motherless child) / cuz through the thick and thin, no matter who been listening, until we meet again just remember whose the sickest at this /