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{"{"}Verse 1} |
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They got a ***** shedding tears, reminiscin on my past fears |
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Cause **** was hectic for me last year |
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It appears that I've been marked for death |
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My heartless breath, the underlying cause of my arrest |
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My life is stressed, and no rest forever weary |
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My eyes stay teary for all the brothers that are buried in the cemetery |
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****'s scary, our black on black crime legendary |
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But at times unnecessary, I'm gettin worried |
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Teardrops and closed caskets, the three strikes law is drastic |
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And certain death for us ghetto bastards |
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What can we do when we're arrested, but open fire |
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Life in the pen ain't for me, cause I'd rather die |
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But don't cry through your despair |
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I wonder if the Lord still cares, for us *****s on welfare |
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And who cares if we survive |
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The only time they notice a ***** is when he clutchin on a four-five |
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My neighborhood ain't the same |
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Cause all the little babies goin crazy and they sufferin in the game |
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And I swear it's like a trap |
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But I ain't given up on the hood it's all good when I go back |
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Hoes show me love, *****s give me props |
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Forever hop cause it don't stop... on my block |
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{"{"}Richie Rich & 2-Pac mini skit} |
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{"{"}Verse 2} |
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Now ****'s constantly hot, on my block, it never fails to be gunshots |
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Can't explain a mother's pain, when her son drops |
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Black male living in hell when will we prevail |
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Fearin jail but crack sales got me livin well |
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In a sense I'm suicidal with this Thug's Life |
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Stayin strapped, forever trapped in this drug life |
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God help me, cause I'm starvin, can't get a job |
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So I resort to violent robbings, my life is hard |
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Can't sleep cause all the dirt make my heart hurt |
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Put in work and shed tears for my dead peers |
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Misled from childhood where I went astray |
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Till this day I still pray for a better way |
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Can't help but feel hopeless and heartbroke |
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From the start I felt the racism cause I'm dark |
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Couldn't quit, the bull**** make me represent |
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Hit the bar and played the star, everywhere I went |
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In my heart, I felt alone out here on my own |
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I close my eyes and picture home... on my block |
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{"{"}Richie Rich & 2-Pac mini skit once again} |
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{"{"}Verse 3} |
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And I can't help but wonder why |
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So many young kids had to die |
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Caught strays from AK's in a drive-by |
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Swollen pride and homicide, don't coincide |
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Brothers cry for broken lives, mama come inside |
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Cause our block is filled with danger |
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Used to be a close knit community but now we're all cold strangers |
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Time changes us to stone, them crack pipes |
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All up and down the block exterminatin black life |
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But I can't blame the dealers |
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My mama's welfare check has brought the next man chrome wheels |
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****'s real, I know ya feel, my tragedy |
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A single mother with a problem child, daddy free |
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Hangin out pickin up game, sippin cheap liquor |
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Gamin the hoochies hopin I can get to sleep with her |
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It's a man's world, stayin strapped |
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Fantasies of a ***** livin phat, but held back |
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Pipe dreams can make the night seem hopeless |
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Wide eyed and losin focus... on my block |
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{"{"}Richie Rich & 2-Pac skit once again} |
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{"{"}Verse 4} |
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And block parties in the projects lastin way past daylight |
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A young ***** learned to break night |
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Used to play fight with my homies but they stuck in the pen |
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I send them ends, but it's tough on a friend, in my mind |
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I see the same ************s ballin |
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Alcohol will make a lazy ***** slip and fall, misses call |
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I know the young *****s understand this |
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Growing up in this world where everything is scandalous |
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I reminisce on tha fast times, past crimes |
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Tryin to cop a slice of pizza with my last dime |
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Can't explain, just what attracts me to this dirty game |
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Gold chains, some extra change, and the street fame |
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And what's strange is that everybody knows my name, swear they all know me |
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And lots of cash make a ***** change |
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I hit the green just to maintain, feelin pain |
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For all the *****s that I lost to the game... from my block |
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{"{"}Outro with Richie Rich vocals} |
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Rest in peace to all the ************s who passed away |
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From all the blocks that I'm from |
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One-twelve street, 7th Avenue, New York, Uptown, knahmsayin? |
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183rd and Walt, my block, that's right |
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122nd and Morningside, my block, that's right |
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Decatur Avenue, Baltimore, my block, that's right |
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In the jungle of Marin City, that's my block, that's right |
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Los Angeles, haha, that's my block too |
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Oakland, can't forget Oaktown, that's my block for sure |
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And all the other blocks around this ************ |
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Houston, Florida, St. Louis, Tennessee, Miami, Chicago |
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All y'all *****s stay kicking up dust |
