[Produced by Play Picasso & Frank Dukes]
[Hook]
(First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition)
[Verse 1]
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
f*ck all of these haters, still whipping inside the kitchen
f*ck all of these haters, they hating without permission
I'm the middle-man, the middle child, intermission
I intercept the plays and middle-man it to Baltimore
f*ck you waiting on Jordan's for? I'm still a carnivore
There's more regrets, more to stress over the press
More to forget, at the end of the night, more or less
Killing competition, they disappear like magician
I ain't spitting over a stupid beef that turned to repetition
All these bars I'm spitting, you'd think that I'd be imprisoned
Released my inhibition on paper, it's still unwritten
f*ck outta here, you a penitentiary cop
Fake gangstas don't act, 20th Century Fox
Permanently paint her in your picture and your bloodline
DJ Cannon with the hits, not the one from Drumline
[Hook]
(First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition)
[Verse 2]
All of these bars coming through, I'm getting sidetracked
Starting planting grenades like they Venus flytraps
n*ggas want the beef but they don't want combat
They get scared when they get contact
They get scared as f*ck by the contracts
A little bit of weed will put me back on track
n*ggas sidelining other n*ggas for the testimony
That's why them fake n*ggas reppin' gangs, attention only
Throw them a bone and they want a steak
Throw them all locations, and they wanna stay
Throw them an inch and they want a mile
May as well leave a note, I'mma be gone a while
No prayers and nay-sayers surrounded us
Thinking back on all of the people who abandoned us
Back in the day when we couldn't afford designer
Please tell me, do you need a reminder?
[Hook]
(First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition
First edition, your religion ain't got tradition)