Kardinal Offishall Mr. Parker Lyrics

(All I want)
(All I need)
(All I want)
(All I need)

I’m from a city where the go getters get that go quick
And get that..both money and the chicks
Nobody has monopoly over prime it
so people pour the clips out with no rhyme in
They the pushers bow have malice though
They smoke everything without touching the chalice
though
I tried to give a damn, but ain’t nobody want though
So I held on to it and took it personal
I lived around crack dealers and preaches
Street graduates becoming the teachers
Politicians talking they couldn't reach us
So we’re becoming the six o’clock features
Don’t study me you won’t graduate
My life is good money you can’t tabulate
Get that dough, but hold your head high
A piece ain’t enough we deserving the whole pie

Chorus:
Dear Mr. Parker you made me this monster
’cause what don’t kill me makes me strong
And I decide where I belong
Damn it’s my hell yeah got something to tell you
If they never made you, they can never break you
Just remain the real you, you decide your fate, move on

If you can't take the heat, why you got your hand out
In hell's kitchen the regular never stand out
In high school they told me I wouldn't be nothin'
Wouldn't make it out the turf, wouldn't be see nothin'
It’s all my game and made up your mind quick
But I would never let the evil in their minds stick
Further more some of the hoodlums I ran with are
doctors and lawyers
Trick I hope you feeling it
Watching us on the television with your daughters
Say cheese girl wave to your father What it's like is welcome back Carter
I am at the ACC with Shawn Carter
Backstage thinking look at my life now
I done did good, got a house in a white town
Just so whenever those white folks talk
They got to respect the rapper who bought the whole
block (ah)

Chorus:
Dear Mr. Parker you made me this monster
'Cause what don’t kill me makes me strong
And I decide where I belong
Damn it’s my hell yeah got something to tell you
If they never made you, they can never break you
Just remain the real you, you decide your fate, move on
All I need
All I want
All I need


The teacher got the kids from 9 to 3
But we got 'em 24/7 on they
I-P-O-D so respect my P-O-V
When I'm filling their ears with love, that's on me
See I travel with a MasterCard, that's on me
But it’s only a fraction of who I be
Never leave a common sense like no I-D
What my daddy taught me got me into V-I-P
You see, you see, you see (x2)

Dear Mr. Parker you made me this monster
'Cause what don’t kill me makes me strong
And I decide where I belong
Damn it’s my hell yeah got something to tell you
If they never made you, they can never break you
Just remain the real you, you decide your fate, move on

'Cause what don’t kill me makes me strong
And I decide where I belong
Damn it’s my hell yeah got something to tell you
If they never made you, they can never break you
Just remain the real you, you decide your fate, move on