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Common - Gladiator |
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They say he's a radical, he don't fit the game |
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A heart full of glory and a fist of pain |
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A couple of battle scars but shit's the same |
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Are you not entertained |
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So all the onlookers and the bystanders |
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Wait til intermission, run buy your camera |
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Record the moment, cause it'll be platinum |
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And you could say you seen Common rock the stadium |
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I was told by a wise old to come from the heart |
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Though I might've did The Light, I don't run from the dark |
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The dark knight to spark mics, and start fights |
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The warrior archetype like Kimbo Slice |
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It's strength in the beard, am I loved or feared |
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A beast amongst boys like Paul I'm revered |
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Vroof, vroof vroof vroof vroof Vroof vroof well |
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Like Jacob Jewel, I keep clientele |
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You frail on the mic like you might break a nail |
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I might smoke a joint but I won't take the L |
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I knew a fat girl who broke the scale |
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Still touched down cause I was off Artell |
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Had dreams of breaking Mike Vick out of jail |
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Took the underground rail to the end that failed |
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I rebel, NYSL |
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Here to leave a trail like Nelson Mandela |
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nothing you could do |
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My words is the sword, my skill is the shield |
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My life is the style I stay dressed to kill |
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A legend like Will Smith with the steel |
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I could save the world when shit get for real |
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Skinny George Foreman, all in your grill |
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My rhyme style is blind, it's all in the feel |
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Touch it and watch the blood fall with the steel |
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The weak raps you wrote you could call that your will |
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My drive VROOM is how I stay the livest |
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Your guys got you gassed, my flow is a hybrid |
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Crashed I survived it, gashes over eyelids |
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You easy to take out cause you hot garbage |
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I'm amped like wattage, the truth nigga honest |
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Any moment opponents drop out like college |
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Kneel and pay homage to the rap Ziggy Stardust |
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Stadium hands in the air fists balled up |
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Feet in the dirt, blood on the shirt |
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Scars over bars, symbols of the work |
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Tight clothes the armor, center of the drama |
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Defeat your whole army like this is Sparta |
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So don't violate or you'll get violated |
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Some of you model bitches is so overrated |
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Don't mean to underrate it but damn it I made it |
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In the water I waded on the corner I painted |
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Draw blood like we related |
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MCs get de-decapitated |
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Syncopated is the style that I fight with, write with |
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Mr. Excitement, change your face up like a white chick |
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Then light shit up like a dread with the herbs |
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Get sex in the city and head in the burbs |
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These are the words of a radical |
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The crowd applaud, I'm bowed, I'm proud |
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To be the gladiator |
