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[Featuring: stic.man] |
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[Intro: stic.man] |
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Saigon, stic.man, dead prezidents |
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Blown away, could be any one of us |
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[stic.man] |
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I pour some water on the ground for the soldiers that's fallen |
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Those who paid the ultimate price when they answer they callin |
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To all the martyrs that we lost as a people in common |
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You got blown away but you didn't go in vain |
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True examples of change on the frontline of the battle |
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Brothers like Bunchy Carter, suit up and rolled when it mattered |
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Wasn't a hidden agenda, wasn't Maulana Karenga |
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He got blown away, still unknown today |
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John Lennon and Gandhi, both were proponents of peace |
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Spiritual message they taught, millions of people they reached |
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Suited devils amongst plotted the dark and the light |
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Both got blown away so bearin this Glock is my right |
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Is there a message encoded deep in the violent display? |
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Renderin people afraid, keepin the movement at bay |
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Go intel pro is a lie still to discourage the rise |
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Leaders get blown away, the media covers our eyes |
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Modern-day genocide, what hope is there for tomorrow? |
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Whether it's vertical or the violence is horizontal |
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I lost too many cousins but was it the bullets that took you? |
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Or was it the, situations society put you? |
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Though I rally for peace, still I carry my piece |
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I keep it free of debris, I keep it oiled and greased |
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They say it's freedom of speech but just watch what you say |
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Before your face on a *****rt, like "He got blown away" (uh) |
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[Chorus: Saigon] |
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I knew a rapper that just rhymed of his **** and his grind |
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But heard a dead prez record that opened his mind |
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You know what happened the second he pressed play? (what?) |
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He got blown awayyyyyyy (yeah) |
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This other kid had never listened to S to the A (nah) |
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So yesterday I gave him a couple records to play (yeah) |
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He heard "Clap" and the *****t that I did with Trey |
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He got blown awayyyyyyy |
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[Saigon] |
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(Go 'head) I pour some Henny on the floor for every young boy |
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murdered in Baltimore, Watts to Little Rock, Arkansas |
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Philadelphia, D.C. to Chi-Town (Chi-Town) |
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And every other ghetto where *****z get shot down |
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The drama's pitiful, little *****z is homicidical |
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We ignore the fact that all the crime is political |
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When somebody's blown away, somebody's gone away |
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Prison population inflatin, the *****t grow e'ry day |
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It's usually us, that's occupyin the Riker's bus |
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It's more than us fightin just, this *****t is a crisis cuz |
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350 million guns in United States |
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Y'all callin my music conscious, I'm callin it wide awake |
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The ghettos that I escape, a lot of others succumb |
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It's hard when your pops a crackhead, and your mother's a bum |
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And you discovered the slums is not a place you should stay |
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But the only way to leave there is for you to get blown away |
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[Chorus] |