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Intro: Immortal Technique |
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Hypocrites, hookers, sex offenders |
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Y'all niggas wanna be pimps and players? |
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This ain't 1997 nigga |
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Verse 1: Immortal Technique |
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I'd rather be rich and unhappy than broke and miserable |
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Cause the game don't give a FUCK if you lyrical |
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And that's pitiful, so my position is pivotal |
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You can hate me all you like but you worship the principle |
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I inspire revolution, the government's not invincible |
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Vietnam to Venezuela, trick knowledge, they pimpin you |
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All up in the hood like McDonald's and liquor |
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Selling AIDS medicine, when we know you got the cure nigga (woo!) |
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You leery of conspiracy theory but hear me |
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From a business perspective, it makes more sense clearly |
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Cause moreover, that's what we go to war over |
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And numbers don't lie unless we do Bush and Gore over |
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Free markets make money disingenuously |
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But I invest in agriculture, biochemistry |
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Smart nigga from the hood, pussy, what type of crime is that? |
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But exec's are like, "You from Harlem? Where your diamonds at?" |
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Chours: Mojo and Immortal Technique |
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Can't dodge the game |
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Stupid |
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If you lookin' for the money or the fame (oh-ohh) |
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The players and the rules ain't changed (oh no) |
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But see we tryin' to leave a name |
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So we're turnin' out |
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Yeah, this is how pimps get pimped and players get played |
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Rich people get robbed and, broke niggas paid |
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New York, London, Chicago, Philly and L.A |
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Miami, D.C., B-more and out in the Bay |
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We're tearin it out of the frame |
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See we deserve to stake that claim |
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If we didn't it's a cryin shame |
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What we're concerned about is how to turn it out |
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Verse 2: Immortal Technique |
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Show me a pretty girl, with the world stuck to her |
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And I bet you there's a brother that's tired of fuckin her |
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Lots of niggas girls is someone else's one night stand |
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I probably made some bitches nervous listenin with they man (ha ha) |
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And if that offends somebody, I'm sorry, fuck you! |
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What you think, revolutionaries don't like to fuck too? |
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You just gotta beware of dangerous coochie |
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Cover ya head like a kufi, some rappers think that they live in a movie |
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Until they get herpes or clap from a groupie |
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And I don't need to shout you out, nigga you know who you be |
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Look, most people are only players cause they got played |
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And have not, let go of that, shit since the 7th grade |
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Yeah you got your heart broke, life sucks, doesn't it? |
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But you shouldn't fuck up someone else's life because of it |
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Someone did your mother like that, that's why you fatherless |
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Before jail or racist cops, that's what the problem is |
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Chours 2: Mojo and Immortal Technique |
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See who's the one to place that blame |
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We getting trapped in cycle of pain |
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With a generation headed down the drain |
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That's how we're turning out |
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This is how pimps get pimped |
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And players get played |
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Beautiful women get cheated on |
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And gangsters strayed |
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Jersey, Detroit, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta |
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Texas, Vegas, Seattle and fuckin Louisiana |
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Regardless of the money you're paid |
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You spend it on a watch and a chain |
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But can't offer your children a thing |
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What the hell is goin' on in your brain? |
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Verse 3: Immortal Technique |
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Yeah, I'm not a crack rapper, I'm not a backpacker (ha ha ha) |
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I'm not a wack rapper, moonlighting as a bad actor |
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I treat labels like the projects, cause I'm a hater (what!) |
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Go to the Sony building and piss in the elevator |
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Cater to hustlers, crooks and cheap smugglers |
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Bootleg my own album, to reach customers (yeah) |
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Every city, state and country, the hood love me |
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Even Aborigines, in Australia bump me |
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They say underground fans are all the color of talcum |
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But who the fuck you think buy 50 and Jay albums? |
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Who the fuck you think made Snoop and Dre platinum? |
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Call up any major record label and ask 'em |
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But there's some, devils in disguise in hip-hop |
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That belong at Republican fundraisers with Kid Rock (bitch!) |
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I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot (bitch!) |
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And blames it on Acid, Prozac and Slipknot |
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You a pussy actin hard like a bitch cop |
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I'll drop you to the floor like a reverse wristlock |
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Eat your food and shit on you, like a highway pit stop |
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And make, revolutionaries out of kids that used to flip rocks |
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The government, pimped 9/11 to go to Iraq |
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And history, repeats itself right on track (how?) |
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First as a tragedy, and then the comedy begins (why?) |
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Cause it's funny, motherfuckers don't see it come around again |
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Outro: Mojo and (Immortal Technique) |
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Where, can we be free? (FUCK we gon' be free man?) |
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We only wanna live our lives |
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Live our lives, with our eyes open |
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Open your eyes open your eyes |
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You stupid motherfuckers - you stupid motherfuckers |
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Open your eyes, before you die |