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Aiyyo wassup wassup let's keep it real son |
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Count this money yaknowhatI'msayin |
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Yea yea |
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Aiyyo put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin |
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Yea yea |
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Cause we spendin these Jackson's |
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The Washington's go to wifey you know how that go |
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I'm sayin that's what this is all about right |
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Clothes bankrolls and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin |
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Yo then what man what |
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Visualizin the realism of life and actuality |
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F**k who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary |
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And my mentality is money orientated I'm destined to live |
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The dream for all my peeps who never made it cause yeah |
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We were beginners in the hood as five percenters But somethin |
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Must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners Now some |
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Restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin Others such |
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As myself are tryin to carry on tradition Keepin the schwepervesence |
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Street ghetto essence inside us Cause it provides us with the |
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Proper insight to guide us Even though we know somehow we |
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All gotta go but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin |
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With some kind of dough so and to that day we expire and |
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Turn to vapors me and my capers'll be somewhere stackin plenty |
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Papers Keepin it real packin steel gettin high |
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Cause life's a bitch and then you die |
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Life's a bitch and then you die |
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That's why we get high Cause you never know |
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When you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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That's why we puff lye Cause you never know when |
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You're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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That's why we get high Cause you never know when |
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You're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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That's why we puff ly |
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I woke up early on my born day I'm twenty years |
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Of blessing The essence of adolescent leaves my |
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Body now I'm fresh in My physical frame is celebrated |
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Cause I made it One quarter through life some God-ly |
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Like thing created Got rhymes 365 days annual plus |
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Some Load up the mic and bust one cuss while I puffs |
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From my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money |
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Maintain Don't go against the grain simple and plain |
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When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard |
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Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip |
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They green cards Dipped to the projects flashin my quick |
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Cash and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with |
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Hash Now it's all about cash in abundance niggaz I |
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Used to run with is rich or doin years in the hundreds |
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I switched my motto instead of sayin f**k tomorrow |
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That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the |
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Lotto Once I stood on the block loose cracks produce |
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Stacks I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot |
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Back Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric |
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Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage |