Classified - Best of Me (Closing Ceremonies) lyrics

I remember camping in Green
Valley Campground and
Chris Joyce played me Run DMC's
"Tricky" It was the first rap song
I ever heard and I fell
In love with it quick started writing'
Some really bad rhymes that I
Thought were really, really clever with my
Friends Quincy Brown, Scott Brown
AJ White and Matt McDougall my first
Manager was Derek Lejeune and
That lasted one afternoon but he
Got me my first show
At a place called Café au Lait that was May
12th, 1995 i met Jorun at that show, and
He introduced me to the Hip-Hop
Scene in Halifax from
Universal Soul, Nathan C, Flexman
Papa Grand, Skillz, hip Club Grove
Shy Love and Buck 65 jo also taught me
How to make beats on the sampler
I bought from SIXTOO and around '99 I started
Producin' for different people: J-Bizzy
J-Bru, Spesh K
Bonshah and anyone lookin' for beats
Eventually I started to group with who
I thought were some of
The best in the city: White
Mic, Nathan C, Marvin Upshaw, short Shane
(rest in peace) , Dean Lucas, Dj
LooneyTunes, Mark Mirage, and Knucklehead
Who you
Might know as Tyrone from Trailer Park
Boys we even had a manager, this guy named
Martin Finch while I was doing this group
Thing I was still always doing my
Solo stuff and around 2000 Brian Cane from
Ottawa, who was helping manage me, got me a
Small independent deal with this
Label called UrbNet
Records, which is ran by Darryl Rodway
It was the first time I had my music
Out on the national level around that
Time I started doing my first real
Tour, played a lotta smaller venues
Pit's and legions, some grimy venues i
Remember this place
Called the Embassy Hotel in London
Had some great shows there jason Bruce
Aka J-Bru was on tour with me back
Then and he toured with me
For almost 10 years after that eventually my
Brother Mike Boyd came on tour too
Cause, I was producing for him and he was
Rhymin' we had a few
Different DJs, CandyMan, Tech12, but I
Eventually hooked up with this
Guy named Brian Pelrine
Aka Dj IV, who was a young DJ on the
Come up had some good times back then
And all these people from my past brought
Out the best of me now

The best of me now
The best of me now best of me now

Around 2005, a guy named Craig McMillan
Was bookin' up shows for me
I was back to managin' myself so he started
Helpin' me out with that a
Bit i was also workin'
With this guy named Chad
Hatcher and Jordan Croucher
Who you might know as JRD
They did a lotta tourin' with us back then
I was doing a lot of music
And producing for them i
Even started my own label and
Signed them both cause
I just loved the music we we're
Makin' and wanted to get it
Out around 2006, I met my fifth
And final manager, Jason Murray
He was really the first real manager
I had and everything changed and
Became 100 percent easier to focus on
My music he got me
My first major label deal through Sony Music
Shoutout to Dave
Harris, Shawn Corner and Shane
The tours got bigger
Thanks to Jason Furmen and Tom
Canton and after Sony I
Started working with JP and Randy Lennox from
Universal also added a couple more people
To my tour crew my youngest brother Jake
Boyd started playing guitar for me
Shawn Thunder started playing
Drums, but Shawn was in couple bands so after
About a year I had to get
Another drummer, Marc Shinski i got my own
Sound guy and tour manager, Elijah Walsh
Made
Sure these shows were all gonna sound good i
Was also blessed over the years to
Work with some of the best directors in
The country, like Harve, Ar T, Cazh
And the MacDonald brothers Luke and Nick
Around 2010, I started working with a guy
By the name of David Myles
Whose actually playing guitar on this
Dave say what's up man! Heeey, heeey, heeey
I produced some stuff for him and
He did a few songs
On my album like Day Doesn't
Die and Inner Ninja, which
Became my biggest song I ever did
There's actually a lotta guys
Over the years that helped me
Out with my music, i always
Made my beats but I always needed
Someone who could play guitar or
Bass or even just give me
Some advice and helpin' me
Out guys like Jim Mullen, Glen
MacDonnell, Neil Danning, Mark Pellizzer
Who
Went on to have the #1 single in the world
Rude with his band MAGIC!
Dan Weston, Hi Huyhn, Playboy and
Quake, Josh Van Tastle, ria
Mae, David Christensen, Mark Hamilton
Billy Parks, Matt Joyce
Scott Bradley, Nick Horn, Mark Perry
Greg Munden, Ian Stainger
Julie Hoffman and my break
Dancers, Tony McCool
Bernie Bermunda and B solo
All these people from my past bring
Out the best of me now

The best of me now the best of me now
Best of me now

Now I'm on my fifteenth album
Which could be my last
But, I do say that after
Every album i'm sittin'
Here back in Enfield
I been workin' on this thing for
Like nine months now, I barely left my home
Stopped tourin' and
Stopped doing shows and just stayed here
And worked on this album
In the garage of my place so I could be
Close to my kids i wear
The same jogging pants everyday
I haven't shaved, my computer
Only works right sometimes
But, I'm gettin' there i gotta thank all the
Unofficial executive producers of
This album that would help me out when I
Got confused and couldn't decide what beat
To rhyme on or which
Verses I liked my brother Mike, Simon
Benell, Dj IV, Jason Murray
White Mic, KI, J-Bru and Elijah
Big thanks to my family
My parents Mike and Cathy
Boyd, my parents-in law, ron and
Lynn Gallant, Chris Gallant, my sister
Leah and Craig Hopewell, mike's wife Sarah
And all of my nephews and nieces
And cousins and of course
My wife Kim, and three daughters
Kayla, Taylor and Emma
You all bring out the best of me thank you

The best of me now
The best of me now best of me now