[00:00.00] The light is there, yeah yeah

[00:08.52]See I come from

[00:09.39]Mississippi

[00:11.58]I was young and runnin' wild

[00:14.88]Ended up in

[00:15.48]New York City, where

[00:18.15]I had my first child

[00:21.21]I named the boy

[00:22.11]Nasir, all the boys call him

[00:25.50]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive

[00:33.15]Let's go, hey hey hey hey

[00:43.74]Tribrary of these rap skits, styles

[00:45.81]I mastered

[00:46.53]Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it

[00:49.08]But I'm still number one, everyday real

[00:51.63]Speak what

[00:52.20]I want, I don't care what y'all feel'

[00:53.82]Cause I'm my own master

[00:55.68]My Pop told me, "Be your own boss keep integrity at every cost"

[00:59.19]And his home was

[01:00.06]Natchez Mississippi

[01:01.95]Did it like

[01:02.58]Miles and

[01:03.06]Dizzy, now we gettin' busy

[01:04.65]Bridging The

[01:05.16]Gap from the blues, to jazz, to rap

[01:07.56]The history of music on this track

[01:09.93]Born in the game, discovered my father's music

[01:12.63]Like Prince searchin' through boxes of

[01:14.22]Purple Rain

[01:15.12]But my Minneapolis was

[01:16.44]The Bridge, home of the

[01:17.34]SuperkidsSome are well-known, some doin' bids

[01:19.86]I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks

[01:22.38]If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo

[01:25.53]See I come from

[01:26.16]Mississippi

[01:28.11]I was young and runnin' wild

[01:30.72]Ended up in

[01:31.26]New York City, where

[01:33.45]I had my first child

[01:35.70]I named the boy

[01:36.66]Nasir, all the boys call him

[01:39.27]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive

[01:43.86]Greatest man alive, gre-gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive

[01:50.64]The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues

[01:53.25]Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's

[01:55.83]Old school, new school, know school rules

[01:58.71]All these years

[01:59.46]I been voicin' my blues

[02:00.69]I'm a artist from the start, hip-hop guided my heart

[02:03.39]Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in

[02:05.43]Spoffard, juvenile delinquent

[02:08.46]But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with

[02:11.25]Books to read, like

[02:12.60]X and stuff'

[02:13.50]Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia

[02:15.93]In art class

[02:16.77]I was a compulsive sketcher of

[02:18.78]Teachers in my homeroom,

[02:20.13]I drew pix to mess them up'

[02:21.96]Cause none'a them would like my style

[02:23.82]Read more books than the curriculum profile

[02:26.31]Said, " Mr. Jones please come get your child'Cause he's writin' mad poems and his verses are wild"

[02:32.19]I was born in

[02:32.97]Mississippi

[02:34.86]I was young and runnin' wild

[02:37.26]Moved to New

[02:38.10]York City, where

[02:40.26]I had my first child

[02:42.48]I named the boy

[02:43.41]Nasir, all the boys call him

[02:46.02]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive

[02:52.47]Greatest man, the great -greatest man alive

[02:55.92]Hey hey hey, my

[02:57.27]Poppa was not a

[02:58.08]Rollin' Stone

[02:59.19]He been around the world blowin' his horn, still he came home

[03:02.55]Then he got grown, changed his name to

[03:04.26]OluCome on, tell 'em 'bout all the places you gone to

[03:07.26]I been to

[03:07.59]Saudi Arabia,

[03:08.88]Mozambique

[03:10.23]Madagascar,

[03:11.31]Paris, Greece

[03:12.72]The Middle

[03:13.23]Africa is where we lived

[03:15.45]Better known as

[03:16.83]Queenbridge

[03:18.30]Nas, Nas you don't stop

[03:20.16]Olu Dara in the house, you don't stop

[03:22.71]Muddy Waters'

[03:23.49]Howling Wolf you don't stop

[03:25.29]From the Blues to

[03:26.04]Street Hop you don't stop

[03:27.60]Tell 'em Pop

[03:28.77]See I come from

[03:29.37]Mississippi

[03:31.29]I was young and runnin' wild

[03:33.93]Ended up in

[03:34.47]New York City, where

[03:36.72]I had my first child

[03:38.97]I named the boy

[03:39.87]Nasir, all the boys call him

[03:42.51]NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive

[03:48.42]Greatest man alive, gre -gre-gre -gre-greatest man alive

[03:54.42]Rest in peace

[03:54.90]Ray Charles