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It has been, it has been, it has been |
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It has been said, |
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That there has been known to be bloodshed |
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Over bread, |
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Men who have bled to death, dead |
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Strapped to beds, pipe bombs, dynamite, |
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Lead money power respect, street cred, yeah |
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It's scary ain't it? |
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Picture yourself going out as a hero |
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Picture mural pictures of us painted |
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All over street corners |
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Fans meet to mourn us, |
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While we meet the coroners |
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Notorious tried to warn us |
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We watched, |
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So many Biggie backed off of |
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Biggie's back and 'Pac's, landmarks, history in rap |
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Statistically in fact; |
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It's so sad to see us re-enact |
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These tragic events, which lead us back |
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To where we left off on March 9th |
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To come from such hard knock lifes |
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And make it up out of them, hit the spotlights |
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And, once they're on us this is our lives |
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Thrust out for all eyes to cast upon us |
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To see who can last the longest |
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And he who lasts the longest, |
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Must be the strongest |
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In this concrete jungle, |
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Where this dog eat dog mentality comes from |
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It's origin, |
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Which is usually originated from cats who starving |
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Or it could just be somebody's horror, |
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That just horri-fies |
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And applies to his persona or the sizes |
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In his entou-rage, that intimidates the people |
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To the point that you know that he's gangster |
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He ain't just say shit, you just believe it |
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Since B.I.B. taught us niggaz to think big |
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I'm been about my business since then, |
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So anxious |
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It ain't how we live, |
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It's what he said, |
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He did it for Brooklyn |
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This I took in, sent chills through my skin |
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Vicious, I'm experiencin the same sights as him |
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It's what excited Obie to write these poems |
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Rolling, going through the same shit he spoken |
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Open up my eyes so there's no limit in them skies |
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When Ready to Die was a sick part of my life |
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Palmin that forty-five, plottin to pop my mind |
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Then that crooked eye Jamaican |
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I'd so many times rewind |
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Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my grind |
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Get up out the system, |
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Who could give him better signs |
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No pop of mine could top Big Poppa rhymes |
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So possibly I'd be popular huh? |
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That's the inspiration I got from my nigga B.I. |
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I took him from coal to diamond, |
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I molded his mind |
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Enter the most phenomenal artist of any and all time |
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I made a Frankenstein, |
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My design impressed |
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Backpackers and press who said my house was a mess |
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Critics lashed, |
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Said I made a fortune off of his passin |
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All I did was build a dynasty, off of his passion |
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And I'm addressing the adolesencents absent to who he is |
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The original king of New York, |
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Christopher Wallace |
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This is a promise on Diddy's honor, |
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I'm a father T'Yanna |
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And teach her that with all the drama |
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Don't even bother |
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On repeat, all of your albums play back to back |
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And I visit your grave cause our friendship's intact |
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An immaculate concept, extravagant progress |
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Bullet wounds left in my heart, I'm yellin "God bless" |
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Regardless to critics yellin that East/West |
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I seen the game losing, |
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I'm just pressing the reset |
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And when the ressurection of you shines through an individual |
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Lyrical enough to wear the same crown of thorns literally! |
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I'ma pay homage, Brooklyn's finest |
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Whether it's Queens or Harlem |
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It'll be instant stardom, nigga! |
