[00:01.50][Intro: DJ Premier]
[00:02.28]Mommy Mary, Mary Coleman that is
[00:07.41]I love you, rest in peace
[00:10.26]You still here though
[00:12.15]Word up
[00:13.24]This goes out to you
[00:14.79]Mary Parker, Loretta Randall
[00:17.73]Grandfather Bill
[00:19.13]Runy Manuel, Robert N'Blangio
[00:21.63]Uncle C, Alicia Elon
[00:25.61]Giovanni
[00:26.40][Verse 1: Guru]
[00:26.65]To my man G.O.V., I remember how you used to be
[00:29.49]You were the illest man alive now I'm reading your eulogy
[00:32.82]Eyes so serious, you told me hold my head
[00:35.72]Pursue this rap **** and go forward never backwards
[00:38.65]While you gripped Tec's tight, and ran ****** out of town
[00:42.19]I ripped up mics, showin wack ****** how to sound
[00:44.83]Still your essence, was callin
[00:47.36]By two gunshots, at close range, your frame had fallen
[00:50.56]Now like a angel you've risen
[00:52.65]And you will stay in my heart, and yo I wish you were still livin
[00:56.18]Word... this is in memory of
[00:59.17][Break: DJ Premier]
[00:59.37]Zachary Bro, Cousin Paula
[01:02.15]Harry O-Fives "Rest in peace"
[01:04.90]Yeah, Sam-O, 183rd
[01:07.29]Joshua Faust "Rest in peace"
[01:09.78]Brian Brown y'all, yeah
[01:12.86][Verse 2: Guru]
[01:13.06]To my man Brian B, I remember how you used to be
[01:15.61]You were the flyest in the club with three ******* doin rub-a-dub
[01:18.91]You was the pimp of all panderers
[01:21.29]GQ, Johnny Presley, ****** up the elegances
[01:24.63]So many hookers on your schedule
[01:27.13]Slammin Cadillac doors and mackin whores on the regular
[01:30.21]You used to boost, the slickest of suits
[01:33.00]Climbin through the back windows on the bus, you was ill Dukes
[01:36.48]Until that chick you vicked, for the Cutlass
[01:38.92]Started snillz-niffin ki-daine, and went to cut cha
[01:41.92]That freak shanked you six times in your sleep
[01:44.75]I wish you was here, cause your philosophy was mad deep
[01:48.04]Yeah... this is in memory of
[01:50.87][Break: DJ Premier]
[01:51.12]Keith 'Cowboy', Scott La Rock
[01:54.47]Prince Messiah "Rest in peace"
[01:55.96]Buffy, the Human Beatbox y'know
[01:58.75]2Pac Shakur "Rest in peace"
[02:01.68]Pink House, Sub Roc
[02:03.92]O.G. Boo Bang, salute! "Rest in peace"
[02:07.32]Seagram's, Killa Black from Mobb Deep
[02:10.30]Biggie Smalls, yeah rest in peace
[02:12.29]Lance Owens y'all
[02:14.73][Verse 3: Guru]
[02:15.84]To all my brothers doin time, whether or not you did the crime
[02:19.18]You know the system is devised to keep you deaf dumb and blind
[02:22.07]Like Scarface said, them cats are smart
[02:24.71]In order for things to change we must all play a part
[02:27.40]It's easy for us to blame society
[02:30.34]But now it's way too late, and we must take responsibility
[02:33.98]To all my brothers in the streets
[02:36.27]I know you feel you gotta hustle cause your peeps gotta eat
[02:39.51]Makin moves right and exact; don't wanna see you layin flat
[02:42.09]Don't wanna see ya catch a bullet black
[02:45.58]If we don't build we'll be destroyed
[02:47.82]That's the challenge we face in this race of poor and unemployed
[02:51.31]Freud, a philosopher, but I'm a realist
[02:53.80]So philosophize this, without love we won't exist
[02:56.88]To those who passed out there, in the deserts and the jungles
[03:00.12]With pain on their shoulders, and heavy bundles
[03:02.71]I pray each one will, ascend to new heights and new enlightenment
[03:06.04]And this is why I'm writin it
[03:08.78]Yeah... this is in memory of
[03:11.17][Outro: DJ Premier]
[03:11.91]Linnet Grinnich, Cookie Murray
[03:15.11]Yeah "Rest in peace"
[03:16.85]Ross, Laverne La-La Eyelif
[03:20.18]John Hood "Rest in peace"
[03:22.53]Kevin Fredricks, Donny Charles
[03:25.18]Leslie Clark, and Will Clark "Rest in peace"
[03:27.82]Tommy Saunders, Princess Di
[03:29.56]Don Clark, Betty Shabazz "Rest in peace"
[03:34.09]This is in memory of...
[03:38.58]"Rest in peace"