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Yeah, uh-huh, okay |
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I'm tired, I'm out here strugglin', ma |
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These crooked ass police, these crooked ass bitches (Staten Island) |
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(New York City) I'mma hold it down, though, ma |
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[Solomon Childs] |
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Based on a best selling novel |
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With blood on the bottom of the Grey Goose bottle |
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You mutha****as is finished (get 'em) |
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Even the feds tried poisoning my I.V. (yeah) |
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Solomon Childs, A.K.A. The Chemical Ali (come on) |
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Sat the L.Q. and the Redbull (you know) |
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Distribution, the rule, since '76 (uh-huh) |
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The streets support, red, nigga (uh-huh), get my bread nigga (uh-huh) |
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Criminal ambitious, prepare for the millennium missions and I was born alone |
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So I'mma die alone (get 'em), scholarships |
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From workin' with a soul crisis (yeah) all praises due |
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To Allah's my idol, eyo so Dominicano (get 'em) |
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On the streets, squeezin' them 16 shot Germans |
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Up north, had beef with them Germans, complex murders |
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[Chorus: sample {Solomon Childs}] |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don't wanna cry} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {mama do you hear my cry?} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {yeah, uh-huh} |
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Mama can you hear me? {for sure} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don't wanna cry, it's a problem now nigga} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) |
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{Mama do you hear my cry?, you talk too mutha****in' much} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {whoever said would get his feelings forever} |
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Mama can you hear me? |
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{Brother, whatever it is, nigga, you gotta put in work, nigga, come on} |
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[Solomon Childs] |
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This year I'm dancin' with the devil (get 'em) |
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Rebel without a cause (uh-huh) |
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Somethin' authentic, enemy of the state |
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Who said the rich couldn't relate? |
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Wild like them Haitians on Vice City, and Little Havana |
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And it gets yourself killed for false propaganda |
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Hittin' hammers with the lulu kids (yeah) |
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Alone (uh-huh) like the last Arab |
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With AK's in the palace in Baghdad |
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Talkin' is for lovers, I want powers beyond powers |
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Twenty O-3, Excalibur, Fidel Castro replica (get 'em) |
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Hear the emotion, dog, this the projects |
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Summertime in color |
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[Chorus: sample {Solomon Childs}] |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) |
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{mama I don't wanna cry, we ain't playin' with you mutha****a} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {mama can you hear my cry? It's my time, man} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {like it or not, nigga} |
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Mama can you hear me? {out with the old, in with the new, come on} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don't wanna cry |
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Nigga, you know I don't sound like nobody else, nigga} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) |
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{Mama can you hear my cry?, I'mma show you what I'm talkin' bout |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {It's time we took it them} |
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Mama can you hear me? {Too money niggaz runnin' around talkin', get ya shit sampled} |
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[Solomon Childs] |
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Straight through it, ain't no exit wounds |
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You talkin' bout leavin' the scene red |
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You should of seen the movie I made in the tombs (get 'em) |
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We the last outlaws (yeah) Valentine, we livin', Nexus, we livin' (get 'em) |
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Drivin' to the top like Stallone in Driven (uh-huh) |
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Raised with extortion sting (yeah) with gunplay |
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Like Pacino in the original script for Chinese Coffee (yeah, uh-huh) |
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Like the Tribe of Malachi (get 'em) |
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What makes you think we mans, what makes you think it don't take much |
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To force these hands (get 'em) |
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You doin' battle with an animal, the ultimate struggle |
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[Chorus: sample {Solomon Childs}] |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don't wanna cry} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {mama do you hear my cry?} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {Ray Don for president, nigga} |
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Mama can you hear me? {Do you hear the future, nigga?, takin' over} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don't wanna cry, I'm skin' if you hear the future} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {Mama do you hear my cry? Frank Nitty} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {Ya'll give it to me, if you really feel it} |
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Mama can you hear me? {Kirk Gat, A-Team, Louie Armstrong, nigga} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {New York City, Staten Island, ya'll niggaz get ready} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {B-Town} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {Body Brighton, niggaz stop sellin' |
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**** you off, til you gettin' static} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {Big Eloheim for security, nigga} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {We got this, man, believe me} |
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Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {I'm tellin' you dog, we got this} |
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Mama can you hear me? (Mama) |
