Public Service Announcement (Interlude) - Jay-Z

The other night when I was researching what was going to be discussed today I\ncame across a passage wrote down, I think it really exemplifies what the young\nbrother next to me was just talking about and I learned that all things must\ncome to an end\nIt is an inevitable part of the cycle of existence, all things must conclude\nTake the analogy of a tree that grows in Brooklyn among the steel and the\nconcrete with all its glorious branches and leaves,\none day it too will pass on its legacy through the seeds it dropped to the\nground and as the wind carries these seeds throughout wherever they might move\na new life will begin for each one of them\nas they stand as a monument to the one that came before\nThat came before\nThat came before\nThat came before\nThat came before…