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The air is still, the heat is rising |
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Summer time's on the horizon |
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Little girl with a baby crying' |
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Cause she's got no food to eat |
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And it ain't that nobody's listening |
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And it ain't that nobody cared |
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It's just that everybody's busy |
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Looking out for what is theirs |
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I'm a hustler on the corner |
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Making very little money |
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But down the block on the other corner |
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This nigger's down there getting paid |
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What's he doing that |
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I ain't doing? |
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He got clothes and fancy things |
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Big old car and pretty women |
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Watch what jealousy and envy brings |
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On the backstreet, that's where |
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I liveOn the backstreets, there ain't nothing positive |
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Now up the block comes my man, |
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Cee LoSay what's happening, how you feel? |
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He don't care about no [Incomprehensible]' |
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Cause he's known to keep it real |
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Peep what's happening down the block? |
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Yo hood is down, you're taking mine |
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Cee Lo knows about his business |
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So he runs it down one time |
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He get keys straight from |
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MiamiHooks it up and sells it cheap |
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You ain't getting nothing but old from |
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SallySo your prices are too steep |
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But I got just the thing you need, son |
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If you really wanna win |
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Sunlight sparkles on his gold fronts |
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As he makes this evil grin |
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Take a walk on down to my crib |
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And let me show you something new |
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Now I got loads of guns and ammo |
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That I bought from this white dude |
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You could tell that |
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I was down |
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That I was just the man to see |
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And he funded me and leased the cheese with |
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Of artillery on the backstreet |
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That's where |
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I live on the backstreet, yeah |
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There ain't nothing positive |
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Now in his bedroom, it's amazing |
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He got guns of every kind |
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He lights a plant and we start blazing |
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Then I picked the one that shined |
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It's an old school |
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CalicoSemi auto dark as night |
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It's just the thing |
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I needTo make my situation tight |
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So he shows me how to load it |
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Since I don't know what to do |
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Aims toward the wall and it exploded |
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Through this poster of |
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Ice CubeIt brought so much devastation |
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That it's obvious to me |
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That is just the thing |
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To separate your soul from your body |
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On the backstreet, that's where |
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I liveOn the backstreet, yeah, there ain't nothing positive |
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I went home and started planning |
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For he might come up at midnight |
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In the darkness catch him slipping |
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Take his [Incomprehensible] up, money is life |
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I'll just catch him as he goes out |
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To his car to make a run |
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Now you can't front when you're confronted |
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With the cold steel of a gun |
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Midnight comes and |
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I'm moving |
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On the creep all dressed in black |
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Wearing a ski mask so he won't know |
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Who just put him on his back |
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So I hid behind the bushes |
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At the people's house next door3 shots rang out from behind me |
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And my blood began to pour, no |
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What? What now, boy? |
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Told you I was gonna get you, boy |
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Thought you's gonna catch me sleeping in your dream |
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Do it hurt? |
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Let's goEverything happened in one swift action |
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Should I just couldn't believe |
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Cee Lo told them what was happening |
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I been tricked up and deceived |
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And it ain't that nobody heard it |
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And it ain't that nobody cared |
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It's just that everybody was busy |
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Looking out for what was theirs[Incomprehensible] city said |
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What they call the |
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M-C-CNow I don't really know what that means |
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But it's what the cops called me |
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They don't care what happens to me |
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They don't miss me on the beat |
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All they know is that there's one less nigger |
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Hanging on the backstreet where |
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I used to live |
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On the backstreet, there ain't nothing, nothing |
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The choices you make can make or break you |
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The choices you make can make or break you |
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The choices you make can make or break you |
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The choices you make can make or break you |
