1990 - Intro: Memory Lane

Yo, Wyclef this is Lena Waithe

Hittin' you... Tellin' you that it's time bro

To take this shit back to the beginning

Man it seem like yesterday man

That we just got booked at the House of Blues in LA man

So excited man. I wanna visit Compton, Watts, East LA

Then check Big Boy the Neighborhood

Sway to the Bay, check sway

Bandana 1964 Chevy Impala

We on the West side a Ice Cube saga

Cause everyday above ground is a good day

Cause I know homies that went down like under like MJ

From Léogâne to Long Beach got them palm trees

Papa was an immigrant like the father of Nipsey

I'm at the presidential overlooking looking seas

Watching as times fly the four seasons pass me

A portrait of Toussaint to remind me the life of a General ain't easy

Welcome to the block where my cousin keep a Remington

Cause many many men wanna do him in like Curtis Jackson

Menace to Society that's what we become

Drinking E40 listening to E-40 going dumb

Tuck your Jesus piece cause it's Friday homie I know

I could see the lick cause every block got a Deebo

My lad out in Britain put me up on Tears for Fears

Told me, Wyclef we living in dog years

Life is a space in the middle, between right and left

Two things we can't run from is death and the IRS

Where I come from I used to eat dirt cake water in Corn Flakes

In the projects taste like Wagyu steaks Scarface I used to imitate

Curtis used to sell the blow I guess these are the breaks

Bandana 1988 in a Maxima left New Jeruz

And I'm headed down the Carolinas

Thug angels got stopped down in Florida

Judge hit the hammer best friend turned informer

I'm Haitian Born Louisiana school

I'm so Creole you gon think I got a twin from the Bayou

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

Bro why you think I'm so comfortable in Chicago

Follow my destiny this child's on a quest

You was like no, no, no ... I was like yes, yes yes

Mr Top Shotta with Mr. We The Best

I tell a joke after the call then informer fiiii dead

5 Heartbeats I'm waiting on the song by the radio

Waiting for Flex to drop the bomb

Midlife crisis mental on a stray

Used to take a Mule to school now its Donkey of the Day

Me and Wonda kept a shotgun in the Booga Basement

Behind the crack house where the fiends look like Bebe's kids

Akon before the Locked Up used to check the kid

Told me that he gonna get a deal with Babyface yeah

I told the gang that the world is ours

Jumped on a concord and we made it out in Paris in like 3 hours

Fugees, Jay-Z and it's Nas

Dame Dash made a nigga go to Jacob just to change his watch

The only thing I ever took out of Haiti was culture

Put it on a world stage like an Oscar

Dave Chappelle Block Party, If I was the President

This ain't a bar... I really tried to be the President

Please Welcome, the one, the only, Wyclef Jean