This song is Robby's expression of ten life lessons that he hopes Atticus will learn someday.
The rhythm and rhyme scheme follow a Biggie song about the ten rules of being a good crack dealer. Biggie's lyrics can be heard underneath Robby's, so the song may not be appropriate for anyone.
LYRICS:
I’ve been in this game for years, not too many, it’s grantable.
Came up w some rules to make this life understandable.
A set of pet tenets, I now beget.
To help you think and act, in ways that ain't too whack.
Rule nombray uno, life is fast, life is slow.
No matter what speed you go, always grow.
Because you need to plant the seed, then take heed.
Watch that plant grow up, your life plan, show up.
Number 2 – be positive in all that you do.
Don't be tempted by bad boys' silence and violence.
Emphasize the kindness, and you'll find
you got friends round the bend from the start to the end.
Number 3 – always trust your family.
You know we got your back up, never ever smack up.
Tell jokes to crack up, and though we might act nuts,
We love you like no other, so hold that fact up.
Number 4 – Confidence is key, for sure,
but an oversupply will make you go awry.
Number 5 – always do things that you’re best at,
'specially what you love in large amounts, passion counts.
Number 6 – if you ever regret it, forget it.
Sometimes you need to fail, just learn and don’t sweat it.
Number 7 – material is so overrated.
Cash and happiness are rarely correlated.
Money and love can mix, but your heart should get first pick,
then find yourself a serious schtick.
Number 8 - some peeps are gonna hate on you.
The hard, but right thing is not to hate them too.
Number 9 – should have been number 1 to me.
None of this means jack if you're not healthy.
So expel the masochism like an exorcism.
In exercise or in the kitchen, your body deserves liftin'.
Number 10 - I call it spiritual refinement.
It's hard to find it, so seek with a wide net.
Many are gonna try and sell, what they well know,
but your own divination is the best, fo' sho'.
All of these rules are meant to help you stay up.
They took, me twenty-eight years just make up.
Let them breach your mental, take the uptake up,
then go fill your plate up, with you own
experience to relate up, reformulate
and pass em when you procreate up.
Til then, you better keep all your grades up.
Gotta go, gotta go, more games to play up,
I love ya