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"Hardknock" |
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Check it, word word |
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What's the word word |
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Yeah, check! |
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Just got word from my mans on the island, he said he needed guidance |
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Niggas on the streets is walling, he look to God but can't find him |
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So he demand silence from the glaring sirens |
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The sympathy symphony, only thing playing is the banned violence |
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No lying niggas just won't let go the iron |
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They wanna burn your molecules until you let go ions |
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Treat beef like they let go lions |
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So don't eye 'em they get the wrong message, wrong methods |
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Put you on that long stretcher |
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Too much pressure God bless ya when the semi wet'cha |
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They told me "more dress-up" I'm giving too many lectures |
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And I'm putting in too many effort in my nouns and verbs |
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Like "they gon' catch up" **** what you must heard! |
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But I done puffed enough herb |
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To be listening to young birds and dumb nerds |
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I got enough shit on my mind |
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So I don't need to be stressing and shine, it's fine |
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One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids |
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So I just can't live my life like this |
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And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is |
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So I just can't live my life like this |
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I want the gold chains and diamond rings |
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But I just can't live my life like this |
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And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff |
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But I just can't live my life like this |
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Got a collect call from up top |
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My cousin called me and what not |
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The motto never changed it's still **** cops |
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We went from having lunch in our lunchbox |
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Our lungs was hot whenever we'd puff pot |
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We'd touch blocks and end up having to duck shots |
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But **** dot, ain't trying live that life no more |
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My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure |
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Gotta be brave can't be afraid |
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Braids and waves never matter when you catch the fade |
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Trapped in a maze and your faith is your only escape |
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**** a priest's opinion, knock the hinges off of Heaven's gates |
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Trying to share my cells with my mate, not share a cell with mates |
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Wrecking shit with my recklessness |
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The L get lit that's when I start second guessing shit |
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Thinking 'bout Ty and then I reminisce |
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What you thought you niggas could've **** me over |
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Never nigga guess again |
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I'm street so cross me like pedestrians |
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And that's gon' be the end of it, straight revoking your membership |
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One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids |
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So I just can't live my life like this |
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And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is |
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So I just can't live my life like this |
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I want the gold chains and diamond rings |
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But I just can't live my life like this |
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And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff |
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But I just can't live my life like this |
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Niggas wanna know what I'm about, I'm bout blowing loud |
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On the block sporty, Glock 40 in a politician mouth |
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I take the competition out commission with my composition |
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Who the kid spitting behind the bars like a con position |
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Gotta give 'em time to listen, they'll soon bump to it |
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They'll like me, I kick it like Nike they'll soon adjust to it |
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But if you hate I know you must do it |
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I ain't mad at you I keep my attitude on "screw it a million bucks should do it" |
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I'm out for presidents to represent me |
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Yo chick keep messaging me, who the bestest MC? They be mentioning me |
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Too hot, I be molesting the beat, **** math |
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Teachers should teach us to get Smith & Wesson's off of the street |
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So first class be a lesson for me |
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**** what you teaching for some regents, I'm flying over regions |
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Reaching, all time highs where Jesus can't reach us |
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Step to me and get the recipe to make you rest in peace |
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This is for my niggas, killers, hundred dollar billers |
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On the block in the rock spot, Glock ****ed watching out for cops |
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All about their cheddar, young guns know nothing that's better |
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Like **** a prison letter, those Beretta's led us to the lettuce |
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Relish fetishes, menaces want the senator's percentages |
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If you ain't prejudice you still a nemesis |
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Smoking on the Clematis, get open like a present is |
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Now your presence is on the premises for them presidents |
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My city be the genesis for where they think the terror is |
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They linking terrorists from the Stuy then Lincoln Terraces |
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Stay on that reckless shit, they leave you left for the dead |
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Kids don't play they'll erase your head in a race for the bread |
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Children on the corners slinging some regs, popping some meds |
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Jakes be so deep in cover they be chasing the feds |
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I be back stage gripping haze breaking my leg |
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My folks was making the best when they was naked in bed, mutha****a |
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One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids |
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So I just can't live my life like this |
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And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is |
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So I just can't live my life like this |
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I want the gold chains and diamond rings |
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But I just can't live my life like this |
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And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff |
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But I just can't live my life like this |
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by og |