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Intro: Pete Rock |
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Uh, check it |
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InI in the house, y'all |
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Soul brother number one |
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The life I live |
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Rob-O, Ras, Grap Luva, and Marco Polo |
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Yeah, hit 'em off the verse, one time |
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Verse 1: Grap Luva (Rob-O) |
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Yo, my display of attributes in a tight situation |
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Is like squeezing grapes for the drunken sensation |
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(But these grapes got the taste of wrath) |
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On behalf of my staff I blaze a trail and set a path of forward motion |
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Cause a commotion and diminish competition |
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School the shorties cause the "I" be on a mission, steady dismissing |
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Nonsense and weak foes who kick fuckery flows and stay afloat in the water |
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I simply oughta seize your whole manslaughter attitude |
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Cause niggas like you ain't really rude |
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I'm never pulling punches, delivery is revelation |
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Hear the I out, find out what you're facing |
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Never displacing is the way brothers be living |
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But what's the true elements of what I'm giving? |
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Delivering the full coverage of how I'm living in the years of the nine |
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My style and my life is defined |
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Scratched hook |
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Damn right I like the life I live |
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Verse 2: Ras G |
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The very first African man born into a system that's torn into pieces |
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Not running through the feces but every day I feel that the love keeps decreasing |
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So I bring the love vibe to make it all coincide |
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I love His Imperial Majesty and it's a tragedy |
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I've seen your whole strategy is weaker |
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Your style's been blown like the speaker |
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While I'm an old school new school rhyme fool with no tool |
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Packing the mic and keeping my cool like the water in the pool, quite refreshing |
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Won't settle for less in this rap game, I'm far from lame |
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While others fiend for fame I remain the same |
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Staying laced for the future that's faced my lord |
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We're InI, all together on one accord |
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Yo, the clique that manifests with much rapport |
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With much love to give within the life I live |
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Scratched hook |
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Damn right I like the life I live |
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Verse 3: Rob-O |
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Birth time, see my first rhyme in 2-0-7 |
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1-9-7-1, September 11th |
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To the twelfth is when he blessed my peoples with wealth |
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First born son arrived chilling in good health |
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Couldn't imagine the praise when I came out the poon-poon |
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My mama's womb was a nigga's only room |
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Now I got the whole world to express myself |
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Stretch myself, relax and plus rest myself |
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With impossible props to pull |
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Check it, steadily avoid all the obstacles |
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And negativity, y'all faggots stressin' me |
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Take advantage to get the best of me |
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Sweating in hopes of getting next to me |
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It won't happen, see I came to rock the spots |
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Serving the facts I got, on these urban black blocks of America |
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From four square miles New York is scarier |
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With strength dominates the inferior |
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And I'm out |
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Hook(Until fade out) |
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Damn right I like the life I live |