| [00:02.11] | Yo, what up dough? |
| [00:03.92] | Y'all listening to Elmatic |
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| [00:06.55] | Fire that weed up and put it in the air, yeah |
| [00:11.47] | Represent, represent |
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| [00:13.73] | Represent, represent |
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| [00:16.23] | Represent, represent |
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| [00:20.73] | Straight up, shit is real, and any day could be your last when you pass |
| [00:23.54] | Your sand has dropped, now your hourglass in the flash |
| [00:26.05] | The corners is where they pitch rock to move into a rich block |
| [00:28.80] | Find somebody up in your crib, you gotta switch locks |
| [00:31.30] | Niggas pull triggers and ditch Glocks over things a bitch jock |
| [00:34.55] | It's sick as a Hitchcock flick |
| [00:36.17] | To be the big shot looks appealing, the life of crooks |
| [00:38.90] | Getting money off the books, **** a shook civilian |
| [00:41.10] | We took the ill and then mistook the feeling, of climbing to the top |
| [00:44.41] | Staying when you don't know where the cops laying |
| [00:46.35] | Loading guns, pop, spraying |
| [00:47.92] | just to get the hands on your clock to stop swaying |
| [00:50.54] | Enough to cause both of your knees to drop, praying niggas stop playing |
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| [00:54.24] | cause I was told to represent |
| [00:55.74] | by OGs claiming the D and repping Flint |
| [00:58.43] | Pushing old school whips on 20s that kept a tint |
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| [01:02.84] | Represent, represent |
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| [01:05.00] | Elzhi, |
| [01:05.69] | Represent, represent |
| [01:06.88] | Will Sessions, |
| [01:07.94] | Represent, represent |
| [01:09.13] | no doubt |
| [01:10.57] | Represent, represent |
| [01:12.57] | Yo, they call me El', I'm not your legal type of fellow |
| [01:15.13] | Bong smoker, pipe inhaler, keep a strong poker- |
| [01:17.19] | -face, playing my cards right, **** a case, cops will run in your place |
| [01:20.75] | for hard white, treat you wrong, poke ya |
| [01:22.94] | with the nightstick, I know these snitches telling, in fact |
| [01:25.19] | I'm smelling a rat, and the aroma's quite thick |
| [01:27.50] | They shut down your light, lick right quick |
| [01:29.38] | Charging you with shit that might stick |
| [01:31.38] | Thought you was Frank White slick, the joke's on |
| [01:33.63] | all you little niggas with locs on |
| [01:35.32] | counting your figures, downing liquors, getting your smokes on, representing |
| [01:37.84] | for the hood, putting your city on the map |
| [01:40.90] | Young girls throw they kitty and they titties on your lap |
| [01:43.46] | Catch you slipping while you tricking, stick the clip in |
| [01:45.96] | They get paid and leave you sicker than that AIDS symptom |
| [01:48.65] | They play a man like fools feel the heat from the tools |
| [01:51.34] | Empty out your wallet, take off your jewels, you know the rules |
| [01:54.08] | Represent, represent |
| [01:56.40] | |
| [02:01.15] | No doubt, you see my stats is fat, this is what it's about |
| [02:04.15] | before that Ice Cube conflict with MC Ren |
| [02:06.33] | Around the time when 3rd Bass was dissed by X-Clan |
| [02:09.21] | I used to wake up every morning with my ear in a box |
| [02:11.90] | Bumping Rakim, Kane, Finesse, Freddie Foxxx |
| [02:14.55] | Then I bought the Nas CD, Biggie's and Pac's |
| [02:17.11] | Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, Gang Starr and The LOX |
| [02:19.73] | Nowadays I need the green and the cash just like the next man |
| [02:22.48] | Using my mind to make shit move just like an X-Man |
| [02:25.05] | I'm talking checks, grands, commons and zeroes |
| [02:27.30] | Growing up, my heroes bombed firearms at De Niros |
| [02:29.73] | Some of 'em went to jail, got life in a cell |
| [02:32.55] | Others got death, dwelling in hell, most of 'em fell |
| [02:35.21] | When you laying low and the police is hot on your trail |
| [02:37.90] | do you think of suicide or are you plotting for bail? |
| [02:40.21] | This is words of wisdom from El', try to rise up above |
| [02:42.90] | Keep an eye out for snakes, represent, one love |
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| [02:47.03] | Yeah, yeah, this goes out to everybody around the world |
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| [02:52.84] | All over, tryna get yours |
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| [02:56.66] | Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, Chi-Town, New York |
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| [03:02.50] | Toronto, Paris, London |