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It's funny because it's been on my mind lately |
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Having a dope beat dope idea |
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Sixteen bars ain't enough |
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How the f**k can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse |
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You know so many different levels to living your life |
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Depicting with your wordplay exactly what life means to you |
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Sixteen ain't enough |
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I know y'all gonna feel me on this one |
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You gotta feel me on this one |
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It's funny how things change funny how time fly |
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More than my feet travel the more that I feel fly |
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More that I make now the more that the chicks smile |
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She call me a local nigga I opened a Swiss account |
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Eisenhower status Etta James on the dash |
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Smooth as John Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac |
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Seville - feel my life on the real |
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We the Last Poets so this is a world premiere |
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Rolling like Mick Jagger the women just getting badder |
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All I see is the money cream Eric Clapton |
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And all I wanted was one 16 ain't enough |
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Talking that fast money 15 every month |
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When your people labelled poor that motivated me more |
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Everything I ever wore was once worn before |
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Roll with the punches now it's box office numbers |
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Dressed like Sammy Davis steaming my marijuana |
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Double MG's double M fees |
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We in every hood nigga: government cheese |
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Yacht to Yachtmasters Old Dirty Bastard |
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Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm stackin |
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Better put away a penny for the rainy days |
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Pick and roll give and go f**k a fade away |
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Living like Scottie Pippen dribble riddles for vittles |
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Started off with a scribble now I'm flowing a river |
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She say my heart cold I'm naming my son December |
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Whitney died night before the Grammys -- damn what a memory |
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Trump Tower and I started with a 10 speed |
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Born broke had to use a nigga's instincts |
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Now I get a hundred racks for the 16 |
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Waking up to turkey bacon and my thick queen |
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Niggas hating I'm just watching on the big screen |
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3 stacks on the beat and the kicks mean |
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You know how sometimes you got so much to say but |
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They on- they only give you 16 heh |
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Man it's like I mean I got so much to say |
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The world has said so much to me |
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And I just wanna give right back to 'em |
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But I only get 16 that's like a cage you know |
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I really can't say what I wanna say you know it's just a glimpse |
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That's all just one uh one little single glimpse |
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Just a page |
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But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this talking |
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Or was it winter-time ah nevermind |
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I'm in my room booming |
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Drawin' LL Cool J album covers with Crayolas on construction paper |
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I'm trying to f**k my neighbor I'm tryna hook my waves up |
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I'm tryna pull my grades up to get them saddle lace ups |
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Before lil' Marc was Jacob before them girls wore makeup |
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Before my voice would break up before we'd tour them shake clubs |
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Before my mama wake up before my palms would cake up |
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Before they tell me they love me and we'll never break up |
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Before the time she makes love to someone |
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That I thought was my homeboy |
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But boy was I wrong now |
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I don't budge don't want much just a roof and a porch |
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And a Porsche and a horse and unfortunately |
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But of course an assortment of torches that scorches the skin |
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When they enter |
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Intruders whose tutors did a lousy job |
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How's he God if he lets Lucifer let loose on us |
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That noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to juice us up |
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Make us think we do so much and do it big |
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Like they don't let us win I can't pretend |
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But I do admit it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate |
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Hence why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches |
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Then go grab the finest wine and drink it |
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Like we know which grape and which region it came from |
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As if we can name 'em hint hint it ain't um Welch's |
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Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler |
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Ya'll can't measure my worth |
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Because the odds have always been stacked |
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Against me when back's against the wall |
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I feel right at home y'all sitting right at home |
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All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending |
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Into the palm of a child looks up at mama and smile |
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With such a devilish grin like "where the hell have you been" |
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She yelling that selling's a sin well so is telling young men |
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That selling is a sin if you don't offer new ways to win |
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A dolphin gon shake his fin regardless if he gets in |
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Or out of water most important thing for him is to swim |
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And Flipper didn't hold his nose so why shall I hold my tongue |
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(I miss the days of old when one could hold his gal on his arm) |
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And I set off these alarms when camera's snap snap snap snap |
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Return fire pa-pa-pa pa pa-pa pa pa pa |
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They'll learn why mere privacy so essential |
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They won't make no laws I break their laws til they see out our window |
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I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle |
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Forsake them all I hate them all don't like em don't pretend to |
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Yea something tells me we ain't in Kansas anymore |
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All that shit that used to be cool ain't cool anymore |
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All the women we were pursuing now they want more |
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And they deserve it all don't settle for what ain't yours |
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Does your mama know you see me does she know you're freaky |
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Does she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am speaking |
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Do you ever ponder where I'm at when you get sleepy |
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How the hell I'm gonna tell the youth don't be me |
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Yea |
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Does your daddy think you perfect does he know for certain |
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Does he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains |
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Do he think I'm 2Pac cause I'm black and put the words in |
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Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman |