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I'm focused on trying to stay focused |
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In '06 I dealt with some blows now the process |
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Of sorting through these ghosts feels hopeless |
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It's bogus but it still get under the skin like osmosis |
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Yo this world's so sick |
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Like Ne-yo's hit or folks with no OHIP |
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Don't slip |
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Know who the staff you roll with is |
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Your staff can turn to snakes like Moses' |
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And motives get exposed quick |
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When cash is grossed so don't trip |
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No sum is worth what your soul is |
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No sun immersed in the coldness |
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No son, reverse like the poles |
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Get past the bitterness out the standstill |
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It wasn't in the cards |
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Some people can't deal |
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Play the hand you're dealt |
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Might make a grand still |
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A man's real if he can return like Grant Hill |
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Those that know Shad know that hes on his own path |
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Like a nomad rolling without a road map |
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Just 4 lads in a topaz with no gas |
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I call my car Roc-a-fella cause it's got a broke dash |
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My generation's movin' so fast |
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Runnin' like old taps |
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From fear and stress and tears choked back |
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Boys hold gats while the girls got no strap |
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On their dresses and won't eat 'less it's low-fat |
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Between low-cut tops and teeth with gold caps |
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That new school looks more crazy than OCAD's |
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When there's no dads to say don't show that |
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Make em look in your eyes, your mind's where the show's at |
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And you need more than beats for a dope track |
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Even with more hooks than a coat rack |
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And more hot lines than 1-800 phones |
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That's why most cats in this rap game just don't last |
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It's not vocab they need to grow it's gonads |
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And back bone so they can speak and not hold back |
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We need folks with faith that's gon' last |
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To teach the younger ones how to live with no mask |
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And pose the kind of questions that most just won't ask |
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And keep that hope stashed like a safe of cold cash |
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Our vision for the future can't fade or go black |
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Like some Kodak pictures at night with no flash |
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Them cats be pollutin' the air like smoke stacks |
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Let the freshness in get your windows cracked |
