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Untitled 2 (Conception to Procession) - Has Lo |
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From the moment of my conception |
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The foot of my fate using the effort of every muscle |
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He could in his frame |
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To put on his weight to push on the gas peddle |
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Propelling me here to be the cat you might've slept on |
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Who deads your career |
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Is destiny |
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All I had to do was stay alive |
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Biding my time waiting for a sign to arrive |
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It came in the form of L L's tape |
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The one that had the same title |
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As the picture on the front of the case |
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9 years young in '88 Rob Base |
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Easy E Cube Ren and Dre G and Kane |
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Hammer on the first lp EPMD |
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Nike Reebok Fila |
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Scrape a little tar off the curb hold the needle on your spinning top |
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Dubbin the cassettes on my double deck boom box |
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Funny 3 quarter length tube socks |
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Run to the Koreans on the ave for a stop watch |
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Until the next thing black red and green |
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Black power and I***m and talks by Farrakhan |
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Pete Rock and the Mecca Don |
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Groomed in the game by an array of all of the ultimate in rap ever |
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In any era to do it '92 Redman '93 Black Moon |
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I'm into high school mad puerto ricans |
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In came the Wu Tang everything changed |
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The world of hip hop watched Rza make 7 straight classics |
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Nas shredded my dome with Illmatic |
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I spent '95 married to the Mobb |
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When a mixtape used to be a Maxell U R |
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S and S Tony Touch Clue and Doo Wop |
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Me and mike used to swap lps in class |
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He let me hold both Jeru and Gang Starr |
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We'd bang a joint like 3 days and trade off |
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When the real heads owned |
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And shaped the heart and the soul of the art |
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That we authored and sold |
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Until them devils strong armed the control |
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And now it's all corporate but I ain't in the pulpit |
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I just remember Tribe |
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I just remember walking to the store in the summertime |
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To cop stakes is high |
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I just remember Com' Sense Bootcamp Clik |
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Black scully hats and my first pair of timbs |
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I saw rappers locked up saw them get free |
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I saw rappers lose their careers over beef |
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I saw rappers on coke crack w**d and D |
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I saw them in their prime die younger than me |
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I saw Biggie die on the eve of Life After Death |
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To see him alive in the video is eerie inside |
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Murdered by his own people I guess |
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'Pac wasn't enough |
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I thought that all we got is us |
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The world of hip hop had hardly even gotten up |
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Then Big L took a fricking bullet in the brain a couple of weeks past |
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When my born day came and Freaky Tah from the Lost Boyz got slain |
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And Big Pun's health caught up and his heart failed him |
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We sat angered 'cause we ain't have the power to save him |
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But all things come to an end |
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Spring summer to fall |
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Winter to spring and summer again |
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Now I'm hearing hip hop is dust in the wind |
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6 feet deep covered in dirt and dead under my timbs |
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Like it was one of our peeps so we keep the essence alive |
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'Cause that's the way that some of us live |
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I feel the hunger in my stomach and ribs |
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I'd rather starve for my craft than slob for the madness |
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And it's a couple cats holding it down |
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But in the mainstream current overflow and they drown |
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Drown |
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Drown |
