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The real is back, the ville is back |
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Flow bananas here, peel this back |
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And what you'll find is, your highness |
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Can paint a picture that is vivid enough to cure blindness |
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Carolina's finest |
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You knew that already |
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And turned to the greatest, I proved that already |
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And if you would like, I do it twice |
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I just sharpen my blade for a minute but came lost in my ways |
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This for my *****s that was tossin' the graves |
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Every so often I fade deep in my thoughts and get lost in the days |
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We used to play before your coffin was made |
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Just got the call ***** got caught with a straight |
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Hope he's okay |
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Just got paid what Cochran got paid to free OJ |
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Just to share my life on the stage in front of strangers |
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Who know a ***** fall to well, and that's the danger |
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Know me better than I know myself |
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I rip a page out my notebook in anger |
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And let these thoughts linger singing |
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Don't give 'em too much you |
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Don't let 'em take control |
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This one thing you do |
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Don't let 'em taint your soul |
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If you believe in God |
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One things for sure |
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If you ain't aim too high |
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Then you aim too low |
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What's the price for a black man life? |
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I check the toe tag, not one zero in sight |
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I turn the TV on, not one hero in sight |
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Unless he dribble or he fiddle with mics |
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Look out the window cause tonight the city lit up with lights, cameras and action |
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May no man alive come through and damage my faction |
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I brought you ***** with me cause I love you like my brothers |
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And your mothers' like my mother |
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Think we need a plan of action |
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The bigger we get the more likely egos collide |
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It's just physics, please let's put our egos aside |
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You my *****s, and should our worst tenancies turn us into enemies |
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I hope that we remember these |
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Nights fulla Hennessey |
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When Hov aroun we switch up to that D'usse |
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Gotta show respect, one day we tryna stay where you stay |
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Cause we from where you from |
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I'm not talkin' bout the slums |
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I'm talkin' 'bout that mind state that keep a black ***** dumb |
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Keep a black ***** dyin' by a black ***** gun |
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And keep on listening to the frontin' ass rap *****s son |
| [02:21.550] |
Yeah I said son |
| [02:23.150] |
This is New York's finest |
| [02:24.600] |
For 11 winters straight I took on New York's climate |
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Like show me New York's ladder |
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I climb it and set the bar so high that you gotta get Obama to force the air force to find it |
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Never mind it, you'll never reach that |
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Cole is the hypnotist, control the game whenever he snap |
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That's every track |
| [02:41.800] |
Don't give 'em too much you |
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Don't let 'em take control |
| [02:45.040] |
This one thing you do |
| [02:48.040] |
Don't let 'em taint your soul |
| [02:50.830] |
If you believe in God |
| [02:53.730] |
One things for sure |
| [02:56.520] |
If you ain't aim too high |
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Then you aim too low |
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I ain't serve no pies, I ain't slang no **** |
| [03:05.720] |
I ain't bring no lies, *****s sang my quotes |
| [03:08.050] |
I ain't play no games, boy I ain't no joke |
| [03:10.990] |
Like the great Rakim, when I make my notes |
| [03:13.840] |
You *****s might be L or you might be Kane |
| [03:16.780] |
Or you might be Slick Rick with 19 chains |
| [03:19.680] |
Or you might be Drizzy Drake or Kendrick Lamar |
| [03:22.830] |
But check your birth date *****, you ain't the God |
| [03:25.530] |
Nah you ain't the God |
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***** Cole the God |
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January 28th |
