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Uh-uh-uh what up |
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Uh I'm tryna what up |
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Uh-uh I'm tryna get something |
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Uh-uh-uh I'm tryna what up |
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I say what up |
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Uh-uh I'm tryna |
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Sometimes I wanna leave |
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Sometimes I wanna cry |
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Sometimes I hate to bear the truth |
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Sometimes I wanna lie |
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Sometimes I wanna school the youth |
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Sometimes I wanna ride |
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Sometimes I wanna not think |
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Sometimes I wanna vibe |
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Sometimes I wanna bump Tribe and zone out |
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This song bout a young boy |
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That's going wild inside |
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When my world collide |
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With your world where your girl |
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And your kids reside |
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We kill the facades |
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We feel free to fly |
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We're birds that reserve in the charismatic sky |
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I care about my pride too much |
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If my clothes is new |
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If my ride is plush if my hair is cut |
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If my diamonds is crushed |
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I look in the mirror I'm trendy enough Wrong |
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Insecurity roams the black community |
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Homes where kids must have jewelry |
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The high school female need earrings and details |
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So she can be cool to be amongst popularity |
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The various name brands that reach the price scan |
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That's not about the right price |
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But more like the right scam |
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To rule us all confuse us all |
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Hit the bank within five minutes and then withdraw |
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Now let's draw the picture of a rapper with a chain |
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In a Range that is not paid for |
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My cousin from the South said he just bought him a house |
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That lives around his neck like a white collar |
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So why fast forward |
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Then I rewind |
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A time machine can help me double back to slavery times |
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Picking cotton from a field that a white man own |
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The blacker you are |
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Farther you from the white man's home |
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Negro spiritual zones gave us some type of sanity |
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Before your vanity they parted our families |
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They put us in hundred-degree shade |
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And outside we bathed |
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The more we were afraid |
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The more they made rules |
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And trapped our minds in the cage |
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Our freedom was so fake |
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Couldn't see it with the eyes |
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Of Tracee Ross uh |
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And school was exempt |
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See we couldn't have smarts |
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And a smirk could get you hurt |
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Wound diversed from a scar |
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Four-hundred years of nothing |
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Four-hundred years of suffering |
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Four-hundred years of tears |
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And tribulation miseducation |
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See what we facing is now coming |
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Back to the roots |
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Remember whips on our back and |
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If we would run they would shoot |
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Call us niggers and figured |
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That we'd never lived in pursuit |
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Of happiness |
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We captured these feelings |
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In things that we do |
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Thought it's abstinence in slavery |
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But we made it come to |
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A modern perspective |
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My shoe selection gotta be Louie |
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Her handbag gotta be Gucci |
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It's fake then she foobie |
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She still bad though |
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And her fake Gucci ain't that bad though |
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We filling up the gas for Rollies |
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Upgrade to twenty-sixes out there riding Kobes |
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My cousin from the South |
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Slavery start in the South and I bet ya |
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He overcompensates for the life of his ancestors |
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So blame it on the four-hundred years we never saw |
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The reason why the next four-hundred we gotta floss |
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Slaves |
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Uh I say the four-hundred years |
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We never had nothing |
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Barely had clothes on our back |
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It's the reason why |
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When we get a little bit of change |
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We over-exaggerate on our living expenses |
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So if you get your first big check |
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And you cop a chain before you buy a house |
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You're a vanity slave |
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If you're a female and you got four |
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Five six rings on your finger |
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Four holes in your left ear and a nose piercing |
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You're a vanity slave |
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If you got an '02 Monte |
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Carlo with twenty-fo's on it |
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And on the back of the window it says |
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"get on my level hoe" |
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You're a vanity slave |
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We all vanity slaves |
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And with that being said |
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Can somebody please tell me where the mall at |
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I'm not from around here |
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Hey Ali where we at Idaho |
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Yeah nigga you know the first of the month |
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You know them checks come in |
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I'm tryna get something but what up |
