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What are you doing home from school so early? |
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You shouldn't be back for another two hours |
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Now answer me... what are you doing home? |
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(I got suspended) Suspended? For what? |
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(Nothing) A good student like you, don't get suspended for nothing |
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Now why were you sent home? (Cuz I'm black!) |
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Bangin' on the lunchroom table, I used to spectate |
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And watch some of the M.C. greats |
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Throw verses back and forth, I didn't have the heart to step forth |
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I used to take it home to write some of my own |
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But still I wasn't ready to touch the mic-phone |
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The back staircases of school was filled with blunt residue |
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A broken lightbulb and the crew, a man or two |
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Bangin' on the wall while a few M.C.'s, shoot the breeze |
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I'm just passin' through, I might've took two off the trees |
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We fiend for this hip hop quarantine |
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Listen out for the walkie talkies of the Dean (security coming...) |
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Bododo.. school! |
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Sat in the back of the class with my hand up |
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Two wild security guards, grabbed my man up |
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Threw him in detention for 5 days suspension |
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Cuz he said, the teacher was lyin about the Indians |
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Tryin to dumb us with the story of Columbus |
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And brain-numb us, when all you see, that came from us |
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They copy-carvin, I learned about God and |
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Taggin Wu logo on the book margin |
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Intense like a New York riot, she stood quiet |
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And asked me, could she speak to me in private |
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(Mr. Diggs, you actin' like a fool...) Huh? |
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(You know these rules that we have in these schools) Yeah.. |
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(You and your friends think ya'll cool) Why? |
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(Cuz ya'll walk through these halls with the 12 jewels) |
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Phat shoe laces and tri-colored sneakers |
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I stood like a man then I questioned my teacher |
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Why don't we speak about the wisdom of the sages? |
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And how did Europe black out in the dark ages? |
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And when they got light did they white-wash the pages? |
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And the inquisition, why was Christian thrown in cages? |
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And why wuld they try to destroy the nation? |
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With their birth control and bring control floridation? |
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And why it seems that half the school is racist? |
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She said "Diggs, to the office!" We about faces.. |
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Handed my paper with the proper title |
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Who wrote the holy Koran or Bible? |
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Bein' that person with the scent ability |
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Makes me responsible for the uncivil |
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The next morning as I entered the building |
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A cypher goin' on and the Gods is building |
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My hot chocolate spillin', after 5th period |
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Let's cut out, go bag some chicks up at Tilden |
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Wonderful had the rental, "Nobody Beats the Biz" |
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Instrumental, attractin' a few |
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Nothin' really poppin', let's slide to Clara Barton |
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Bumped into a few good brothers from Morgas Martin |
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Mentioned Norman Thomas, had chicks |
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That'll hit flicks, and take you shopping, true indeed |
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I thought Sarah J. had the one that I need |
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Mary Burtrum, Julia Richmond, is it fashion? |
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Elijah Whitney sing the song with me |
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Sisters from Washington Irv. swing a arm |
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Brothers in death, pull the fire alarm |
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Rude ones flow rapness, Western House money makers |
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Maxwell thunder hip shakers.. |
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They not on my level, but I can sit with the O.G.'s from there |
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And make it major, youknowhatimean? (That's what's nigga) |
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Right, but, we not doing that until we get this business settled |
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And even while we doing that, we try'nna get the Wu-Tang niggaz |
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Cuz I love them niggaz, I feel as though |
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They represent the east coast, how we represent the west coast |
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And I love them... |
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