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Bring it in |
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(Verse 1) |
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Once upon a time there was a brotha named Kastro |
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Had a little problem with his cash flow |
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More than once his friend'd tell me he had a dream to clock mad dough |
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Only at the time it seem that absurd |
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Then he saw a light bulb flash up in his forehead |
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Shine so bright he had to close both eyes |
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Said whoever hit him for the average poor asshole |
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'Bout to be hit for they biggest surprise |
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Now meanwhile, still short on pot to piss in |
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Not to mention any window to throw it out |
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Lookin like who don't you want and where it come from |
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Sippin on chicken wing, smackin on stout |
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Step to his boys, the label of the month |
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Like 'yo, what's the haps kid, let me get a deal' |
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Got a dope style, sound just like so and so |
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What's her name, runnin from ya, even more ill |
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Make ya wanna holler like Marvin |
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Did I mention I'm starvin and quite thirst |
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Meanin what, meanin that I'm a do whatever it take to make sure they play my shit first |
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On the Billboard and last on the countdown, like contact on that show |
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So what's up black, yo, how that sound? |
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If you down then c'mon let's go |
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Down to the studio right now |
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Bring me that crate with the old hits |
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Make that beat with the right style |
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So that brotha wanna go get |
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In that club with the DJ |
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He've been on the radio all day |
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I get in cool with him even though he fake as a toupee |
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I roll with ballers and thugs to make my image legit |
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Even though back in the day they told me "you ain't shit" |
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I'm at the Cinderella ball, now it just don't quit |
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Eh, **** that, I shrink my feet if the shoe don't fit |
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I make it happen like hormones, you been forewarned |
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I got you mad now cause I'm kickin that popcorn |
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It blows up in a couple minutes |
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Expand the pockets so your girl's hand's all in it |
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I see ya shorty starin at me on the guest line |
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But these four backstage'll do me just fine |
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Or five, that's for my jam on the request line |
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So if you stress me I could tell you through the grapevine |
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It's like this |
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(Chorus) |
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Them that's gots, I get |
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Them that's not shall lose |
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But man, you gotta get it while the gettin is good |
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Now, if you can get it all this much and this fast |
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Don't be tellin me you wouldn't cause I know that you would |
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Them that's gots, I get |
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Them that's not shall lose |
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But god, I gotta get it while the gettin is good |
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Now, if you can get it all this much and this fast |
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Don't be tellin me you wouldn't cause I know that you would |
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(Verse 2) |
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Yo, I'm number one, but the bullet can't hack it now |
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The Billboard need a full metal jacket now |
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You see my face all day 'til it make you sick |
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I got a hand full of cards, you can take your pick |
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Now who'd a thought this bullshit song'd have me seen |
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And every video and every other magazine |
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With more attention than a jet black drag queen |
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At a convention with a Grand Dragon Klans meetin |
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Kids hang on every word I say like a damn fiend |
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It's too bad it don't stand for a damn thing |
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They parents say I'm too nasty for they damn teen |
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But I ain't write it so don't ask me what the **** it mean |
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I got some other shit to worry 'bout instead |
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The more money, more problems like the man said |
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Ain't like my phone is bein tapped by the damn FEDs |
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But my accountant said I can't get out the damn red |
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I heard that people gettin tired of my song now |
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The album drops and now my fans are gettin hostile |
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I only had one song that got the style right |
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The guy who wrote it, yo, his album dropped last night |
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My pockets on Slim Fast and Jenny Craig |
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The same clubs and restaraunts that kept me well fed |
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Reject my credit like a Muslim do a boar's head |
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Good thing my boss is my boy so I ain't gotta beg |
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But now he hollerin at me like 'yo, where the loot went?' |
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We had to clear the damn sample when the loop went |
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We comin up type short like an indent |
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And I just learned a new word called recoupment |
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I got paid for the video equipment |
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And every other detail a red cent spent |
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Oh hell nah, don't talk about no ****in fine print |
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Well tell me this, how the hell I'm gonna pay the rent |
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I got a live-in landlord so now I tiptoe |
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In and out the crib to find a way to get dough |
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Can't make another record |
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Cause I can't flow |
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Damn,right |
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But I could tell you a lil story |
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And that shit go |
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(Talking) |
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Once upon a, I don't know |
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Used to be a brother named Kastro |
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Had a little problem with his cash flow |
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(Chorus fades in) |
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Them that's gots, I get |
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Them that's not shall lose |
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But God bless the child that could write his own rhyme |
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Some might choose to pray, some might choose to snooze |
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But the style that I use is the style that's mine |
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(Mixing to fade) |
