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On the microphone in 1993 |
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Short Dawg made me |
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And he don't stop to the beat |
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Nothing but a menace to society |
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I always heard that you gotta be strong if you wanna survive |
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Get your diploma, go to college, get a nine to five |
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Every year, you're makin' 30 |
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Gs a popWorkin', see, and you're tied to the white man's jock |
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Movin' out of the ghetto 'cause it troubles you |
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Makin' payments on a |
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BMWI know you never would settle for the minimum snaps |
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And have to live in the ghetto where the blacks be at |
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And send your kids to a school that don't really teach |
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How could |
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I care about a college degree? |
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You think |
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I wanna get cha |
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Take you to the motel and straight get richer |
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You must be crazy, smokin' that chronic |
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I take you to the motel and then put my rubber on it |
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And hope it don't bust so |
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I can stay alive' |
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Cause only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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So tell me what it is, man, tell me what you want |
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Not talkin' 'bout the music but we likes to funk |
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Ain't no such thang as a |
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Oakland punk |
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It don't matter who you are, you'll be in the trunk |
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You come twenty-five deep or maybe ten |
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If I let your push me, then you push me again |
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He was six foot four, they used to call him ' |
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Sir'But he was smooth, gunned down by a teenage gangsta |
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No bigger than me, never could be his self |
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Always tryin' to act like someone else |
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There just ain't no future for us young black men' |
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Cause we always get killed or sent to the pen |
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But even Malcolm |
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X was a ex-convict |
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And you can bet |
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I won't go fo' it next time |
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I'm kinda strong with my bullets in the clip |
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That's why |
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I never trip 'cause only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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You say, "Be a man, let's go toe to toe" |
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But that was like fifteen years ago |
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They say, "Only the strong will survive" |
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But brothers be strong and still they die |
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But you gotta get around that bush |
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All the things we used to do, we can't push |
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No more 'cause ain't nobody trippin' on us |
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You wanna fight, mess around and get shot up |
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See you layin' there, bleedin', losin' the fight |
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All behind a broad and that just ain't right |
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You could live or die, it just doesn't make a difference' |
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Cause everybody knows about your sorry ass, simpin' for a hoe |
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I thought you knew life is but the punk's so fake, he can't handle his |
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So you weak fizz news ain't no surprise 'cause only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |
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Only the strong survive |