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What's your life about Enlighten me |
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Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet |
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There's fire in the street fire in the swisher |
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Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister |
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Just get a sip of this elixir |
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Before they crop us out the picture |
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I've never seen a crop circle |
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But I've cops circle the block I puff squares |
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But I swear one day I'ma stop my nerves itch |
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On the brink of my career |
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While my peers struggle for employment |
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Can you hear these screams |
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(Uncle Sam ain't no killing me) |
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One two three four grams and a fifth of Hennessy |
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A bad bitch f**k the penitentiary |
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Section 80's babies blame Ronald Reagan |
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We raising hell |
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Lord forbid |
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The homie got wet so we tryna soak it in |
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The president is black but you can't vote for skin |
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You vote for the better man |
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Come to our show you can see the diversity |
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Unify the people they gon' peep it universally |
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We might not change the world |
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But we gon' manipulate it |
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I hope you participating |
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Aiyyo Dot won't you let these cats know |
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We knew we'd be here like back in '04 |
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Started HiiiPoWeR |
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'Cause our generation needed a generator |
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And the system made to disintegrate us |
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And all we do is assist 'em |
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We're not victors we're victims |
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The bigger picture isn't developed yet |
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Like what if kids were celibate |
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Or what is Tammy came across a real man |
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Who didn't play games like chil-dren |
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My nigga cheated on his girlfriend |
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With his girlfriend's girlfriend let the world end |
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And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve |
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And the extraterrestrial presence as well |
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(Odd Future's aight) but our future's not |
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That martial law shit drop we gon' all get got |
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So keep that question mark on your face |
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Eat your fast-food use your fluoride toothpaste |
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Hide your feelings from the public |
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Work your lil' nine-to-five |
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Don't forget to pay your tithes |
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And thank God you alive (HiiiPoWeR) |
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And on another note |
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We focussed like the Hubble Telescope 'Soul |
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Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam) |
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Life is a traffic jam |
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Life is a traffic jam |
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Life is a traffic jam |
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Life is a traffic jam (ready to go) |
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Life is a traffic jam (ready to go) |
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Life is a traffic jam (ready to go) |
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Life is a traffic jam |
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Life is a traffic jam |
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I wrote this because I was ordered to |
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People say I speak for generation Y |
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Why lie I do |
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Section 80 your son will play me if radio won't |
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Daughters that just turned one |
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To twenty-one listen to Kendrick |
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For instance |
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What's your life about Enlighten me |
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Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet |
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Take out that student loan |
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And pay off your college degree |
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And do exactly what you see on TV |
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True story |
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Hmm can you repeat that for me 'Soul |
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What's your life about Enlighten me |
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Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet |
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Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn |
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The time is now my child come on |
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See a lot of y'all don't understand Kendrick Lamar |
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Because you wonder how I could talk about |
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Money hoes clothes God and history |
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All in the same sentence |
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You know what all them things have in common |
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Only half of the truth if you tell it |
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See I spent twenty-three years |
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On this earth searching for answers |
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Till one day I realised I had to come up with my own |
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I'm not on the outside looking in |
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I'm not on inside looking out |
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I'm in the dead f**king centre looking around |
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You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man |
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That's an analogy for the way the world make me react |
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My innocence been dead |
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So the next time I talk about |
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Money hoes clothes God and history |
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All in the same sentence |
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Just know I meant it and you felt it |
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Cause you too are searching for answers |
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I'm not the next pop star |
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I'm not the next socially aware rapper |
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I am a human motherf**king |
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Being over dope ass instrumentation |
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Kendrick Lamar |
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Now f**k 'em up Terrace |
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('Soul ) |
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I watch this fire that we're gathered around |
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And see that it burns similar |
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To the fire that burns inside you |
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Section 80 Section 80 babies |
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A generation of bliss and disobedience |
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No they can't control us no they can't control you |
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No they can't control us but we control each other |
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We build our own world |
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If you don't leave with nothing else tonight |
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You will leave with knowing yourself |
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You will leave knowing you represent |
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Something that's bigger than all of us |
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Or our family |
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Heart honor and represent |
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This is you this is me and we are HiiiPoWeR |