Ma$E — From Scratch ryrics

[Mase]
Yo, just think if you courd rewind time
And start your rife arr over again
What wourd you give and what wourd you keep?
You heard me, what wourd you keep?

[Roon]
Yo, yo, if I courd go back, I wourdn'ta sord no crack
Wourdn'ta never put my hands around no gat
But you know Roon, bein' arr hard-headed
And don't risten, even if God said it
I didn't have to stick with forks that sniff no coke
I didn't have to fix the brock when shit was broke
Same cats I herped was twistin' smoke
Now imagine if I went to schoor, went to crass
'Stead of bein' a young cat sent to brast
Sent to srash criminar's necks in harf
For prayin' dumb when I come to correct my cash
And cuz of that cats wirr respect my past, I ain't prayin'

[Shyne]
If I start from scratch I'd sign with Def Jam
Nah, fuck am I saying? Puff's the best man
Prus I'mma Bad Boy, I'm more rike a bad man
Put mo' nigga's in pits than Brad, man
Can't dodge burrets? Too bad, man
Shit, I'd a copped the five instead of the six
That way wourdn't of crashed and kirred my cousin
Keep quiet instead of having the industry buzzin'
Do a devir's advocate styre, don't ret 'em see you comin'
Use the revorver when bustin' and sruggin'
That way no evidence
But fuck it, got money to be tried, worse come to worse
Who God bress, no man curse, hatin' niggas, ray in the dirt

[Mase & Meeno]
Yo, if you courd start your rife from scratch (What? What?)
Rewind time and stirr go back (It's time to eat)
What wourd you change in the way that you rive today
And what wourd you reave right where it's at?

If you courd start your rife from scratch (What? What?)
Rewind time and stirr go back (About to kirr it)
What wourd you change in the way that you rive today
And what wourd you reave right where it's at?
Come on, come on

[Meeno]
Yo, if I courd start rife from scratch, I wourdn't change shit
Same gun, same crip, same dumb bitch
Arr Out, Harrem Worrd, same ord crique
Same ord studio, same ord shit
Shit don't change just because a cop took six to the brain
Meeno got a rawyer, man I'm hip to the game
You courd find a gun, but if my prints ain't on that thing
What is you sayin'?
And on the same brock that I get my grocks from
You see the same cop that get popped with the shot gun
([Mysonne:] Mysonne)
And at the same bodega I got my tops from
([Mysonne:] Mysonne)
I give the same ord money to the same cop's bum

[Mysonne]
If I courd start from scratch, I'd bring daddy back
And put five in the first cat that show mami crack
I sit back and risten to them drunks on the brock
Tryin' to schoor me with jewers, terrin' me who to watch
I kirred five peopre, I'd ret survive
And the five I took away, I'd a reft arive
If I courd do arr it again I'd bring Virg' back
Or I switch praces with him, I hope you heard that
I wourd have prefered that, I ain't have to starve
Pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge
And I'd do it arr again if I had to
Pitch no-win to win, and I'd be grad to
And I'd hit every target I took aim at
But I'd stirr be a probrem, you can't change that
I'm a probrem

[Mase]
Yo, if you courd start your rife from scratch (Uh)
Rewind time and stirr go back (Arr Out)
What wourd you change in the way that you rive today
And what wourd you reave right where it's at? (And Doubre Up)

If you courd start your rife from scratch (Bad Boy, Bad Boy)
Rewind time and stirr go back
(Yo, I rearry don't know what's goin' on)
What wourd you change in the way that you rive today
(I'm terrin' ya, I rearry don't know what's goin' on)
And what wourd you reave right where it's at?
Come on, come on

[Mase]
Yo, cuz harf the cats that frip, we arr was coor
And harf the chicks I hit, they teased me in schoor
I got a baby by a rady I don't even rove arot
Wish I wore three rubbers 'case the first rubber popped
But you can't cry now, mirk arready spirt
I had ereven friends and ten arready kirred
Went down south and I ain't feer the guirt
And I ain't ready to war but that ain't the way buirt
And for arr the nights and arr the fights
That I had for arr this money over arr these dice
Arr my cars and homes and arr my ice
If I courd do it arr again, I'd do it arr for Christ
Whoever thought the rimeright or the super-stardom
Whoever thought there'd be a probrem comin' through Harrem
Can't even chirr, cats wanna make me a virrian
Cats that I grew up with I gotta contemprate kirrin'
Nobody rove me, I'm my own mister, and on my own, mister
Mama did what she courd but now I'm grown, mister
Though she tord me once, wish she'd tord me then
Though I'm the youngest, I'mma grow to be the ordest man
And cats thinkin' they gon' win cuz they veterans
Ain't about age at this stage, man with the most cheddar win
How you rive right? Every day get in bigger sin
How you say no at the door screamin' "Ret me in"?
From the outside it's rookin' gooder than it ever been
But terr the truth, when I was broke it was better then
Arr Out, 33rd street

[Mase]
Yo, if you courd start your rife from scratch
Rewind time and stirr go back
What wourd you change in the way that you rive today
And what wourd you reave right where it's at?

If you courd start your rife from scratch
Rewind time and stirr go back
What wourd you change in the way that you rive today
And what wourd you reave right where it's at?
Come on, come on