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If all I saw was gangsters |
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Coming up as a youngster |
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Pussy and money the only language I clung ta |
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Claim ta, unrolled myself up to become one |
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Ain't ya happy I chose rap |
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I'm amongst tha |
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Streets deceiving |
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Can't believe my achievements |
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Cultural strata |
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Persona's that of a non-needer |
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Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver |
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For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless |
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To my g's on the flee from the coppers |
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Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors |
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From the slums I come up a phoenix |
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Caked up, tryna take what I'm eating |
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Came up a dismissive kid |
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You lucky if you allowed to witness this |
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Savvy mouth |
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Wild, hardly |
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A man's man |
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Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties |
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Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's |
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For years, all that |
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How could I not be dead |
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This old German |
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Said I was a thug with a notty head |
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Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled |
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With a face like he wonder where I got my bread |
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Probably all these stones he see |
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From my shows overseas |
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From crime to rhyme |
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My stories is I'm from the home of the thieves |
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Blessed |
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The lord is a g, he gotta be |
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Who's the God of suckers and snitches |
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The economy |
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Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe |
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Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro |
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He'd want me to spit this |
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Only the strong survive |
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Nas bear witness |
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The hypocrisy is all I can see |
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White cop acquitted for murder |
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Black cop cop a plea |
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That type of shit make me stop and think |
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We in chronic need of a second look of the law books |
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And the whole race dichotomy |
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Too many rappers, athletes, and actors |
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But not enough niggas in NASA |
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Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion |
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But when it comes to residuals, they look past us |
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Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us |
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Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandanas |
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Assassinations |
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Diplomatic relations |
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Killed indigenous people |
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Built a new nation |
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Involuntary labor |
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Took a knife split a woman naval |
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Took her premature baby |
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Let her man see you rape her |
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If I could travel to the 1700's |
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I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite |
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Through your covenant |
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Love to sit in on the Senate |
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And tell the whole government |
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Y'all don't treat women fair |
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She read about herself in the bible |
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Believing she the reason sin is here |
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You played her, with an apron |
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Like bring me my dinner, dear |
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She the nigger here |
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Ain't we in the free world |
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Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls |
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Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casually |
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Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me |
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How far we really from third world savagery |
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When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be |