the forward

my name's wale, you probly know me from the you know, aye that was one of my favorite joints man, you remember that day of mine?, shit, that's one of my favorite lines cause, you know i'm hard to please man, you know that, but you won me over nigga, you can't lose yourself in this shit holmes, cannot do it man, it's too many lives at stake, you know we do this shit for the district, them youngins man, them youngins that don't have a voice, nobody was before us man, nobody made it this far, we do this for all our homies behind the wall, who never got a chance to see this movement in real form, you gotta remember this shit man, you do this for them young niggas who we inspire and open the musical doors for, we are the district, wale, we the district, nigga, we can't lose ourselves, this blood run too thick, this district culture too raw, yo like ab said nigga, the dream is real, let's live in it, we already fled our homes, we been fucking up the dc club scene since platinum days nigga, but you always stayed on subject, if these listeners too dumb to understand you gave them subject in the club, at the same token on chain music, the never gon get it, my nigga, can you really believe they thought you was talking bout a fuckin chain?, man, from tourin to classic tapes, nigga you and dre been the hour sessions, 2007, now we talking bout grammies, we talkin bout grammies nigga, you understand that?, can you believe that?, we up for a grammy nigga, we ain't got shit else to prove, we already did the unthinkable, man, listen ralph, you just gotta give these niggas folarin