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[Tracey Horton - Intro] (Rakim) |
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La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah |
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La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah (Uh...yeah...)(This is for the haters...keep hatin) |
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La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah |
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La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah(It's what we call money music, right here)(Uh, yeah, let's go in)[Rakim - Verse 1ne] |
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I perform in cities, hoods, and slums, the best seller is drugs |
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And money is the only thing that get love |
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They say don't let it make you, but that's how they rate you |
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And the more you got, the more they hate you (That's okay too!) |
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Just don't get in the way, 'cause at the end of the day |
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My agenda's make sure |
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I get them ends to get paid (uh-huh) |
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So I'm stackin grands 'til the math expand |
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It's the man with the master plan |
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Since the |
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Bambino, cash made my path cross with evil |
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Uno dos cinco on a crowded corner rollin c-lo |
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To chips and the chick in the casino pourin |
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Cliquot'Cause now |
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I make music for the c-notes |
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From New York to |
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Puerto Rico, |
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California to |
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RioHit the streets like the kilo but |
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I'm legalIt's swga like |
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I walk with heat though with all my people |
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But it's just me and my alter ego[Chorus: Tracey Horton] |
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I walk these streets, wit my mind on my plan |
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It's alright if you don't understand |
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I walk these streets, think like |
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I got a gun in my hand'cause hatin is the nature of man(Sometimes I wanna, stop the cameras, just pop the hammerBox the innocent bystander and his man up) |
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I walk these streets, think like |
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I got a gun in my hand |
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It's alright if you don't understand |
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Just stay outta my waaaay[Maino - Verse 2wo] |
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MAINOOOOO~! |
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Yo, one for my comrades, two for my family |
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Three for the day that |
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I run into my enemies |
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We gon' make a movie, the world gon' remember me |
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I survived it all dawg, what the hell you tellin me? |
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I remember days when, |
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I was young and aidin |
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Cuttin class, chasin ass, couldn't pass grades and |
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Chillin on the block then, listenin to |
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RakimBack of his album filled up with |
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Killer Ben |
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Supreme Magnetic and |
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I wasn't athletic |
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But I ran around with the |
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Tre-8 Magnetic |
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Money on my mind, crack vials in my |
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Levi'sBeen a dog since |
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I had the cream colored |
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Filas (Hahahah!) |
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Yeah, yeah, we fly, seen it all with these eyes |
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Gunplay and drugs if you put my mind on rewind |
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Fast forward my life, ya boy done |
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MADE IT!If |
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I could do it over, |
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I wouldn't |
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CHANGED IT![Chorus][Rakim - Verse 3hree](Ay, good lookin out my dude) |
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Aiyyo Maino, it's the same ol' same ol' |
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Don't matter if you in it for the fame or you lay low |
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Haters gon' hate but, it's okay though (Keep doin what you ddo) |
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The angle is make sure the payroll stay swoll |
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Big faces, cake dough and di-nay-ros |
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Rubels, yen yang, euros and pesos |
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Seven digit figures, tryna make more zay-ros |
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Spray holes in whoever in the way so (Stay outta my waaaay) |
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While I count the next bundle (that's right)"All means necessary," |
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Malcolm X hustle |
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A threat yet humble, about to flex muscle |
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Get a big amount then |
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I'm in and out the next jungle' |
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Cause every other day, |
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I'm in another state |
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It's like |
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I cross the thin line between love and hate |
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But I gotta eat, gotta get another plate |
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So I'm on my cake walk for the cake[Chorus] |
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Just stay outta my waaaay..(It's what they do..) |
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Just stay outta my waaaay.. |