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I grew up, a fuckin' screw up |
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Tie my shoe up, |
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wish they was newer |
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Damn, need somethin' newer |
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In love with the baddest girl in the city, |
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I wish I knew her |
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I wish I won't so shy, |
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I wish I was a bit more fly |
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I wish that I, could tell her |
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how I really feel inside |
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That I'm the perfect nigga for her, |
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but then maybe that's a lie |
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She like a certain type of nigga, |
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and it's clear I'm not that guy |
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Ball player, star player, |
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I'm just watchin' from the side |
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On the bench, |
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cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly |
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I ain't grow up with my father, |
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I ain't thinkin' bout that now |
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Fast forward four years or |
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so from now I'll probably cry |
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When I realize what I missed, |
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but as of now my eyes are dry |
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Cause I'm tryna stay alive, |
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In the city where too many niggas die |
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Dreamin' quiet tryna dodge a suit and tie |
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Who am I? Aye who am I (Yeah) |
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Things change, rearrange and so do I |
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It ain't always for the better dawg I can't lie |
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I get high cause the lows can be so cold |
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I might bend a little bit but I don't fold |
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One time for my mind and two for yours |
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I got food for your |
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thoughts to sooth your soul |
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If you see my tears fall just let me be |
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Move along, nothing to see |
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I always did shit the hard way, |
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my niggas slangin' in the hallway |
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Burnt CD's and trees like this was broadway, |
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Times Square |
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Kept the dimes there in the locker |
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Some Reggie Miller |
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With more brown hairs than Chewbacca |
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Whispers that he got it for the low low |
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Sell a, dime for a dub, |
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them white boys ain't know no better |
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Besides, |
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what's twenty dollars to a nigga like that? |
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He tell his pops he need some lunch |
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and he gon' get it right back |
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I peep game |
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Got home snatched my mama keychain, |
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took her whip |
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The appeal, too ill to refrain |
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I hit the boulevard pull up |
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to my nigga front door |
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His mama at home, |
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she still let em' hit the blunt though |
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I told her hello |
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and sat with my nigga and laughed |
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And talked about |
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how we gon' smash all the bitches in class |
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I complimented |
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how I see him out here getting his cash, |
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and just asked |
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"What a nigga gotta do to get that? Put me on" |
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He just laughed when he seen I was sure |
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17 years breathing his demeanor said more |
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He told me, |
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"Nigga you know how you sound right now? |
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If you wasn't my mans, |
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I would think that you a clown right now |
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Listen, you everything I wanna be |
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that's why I fucks with you |
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So how you looking up to me, |
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when I look up to you |
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You bout to go get a degree, |
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I'ma be stuck with two choices |
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Either graduate to weight |
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or selling number two |
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For what? A hundred bucks or two a week? |
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Do you think that you would know |
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what to do if you was me? |
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I got, four brothers, |
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one mother that don't love us |
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If they ain't never want us |
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why the fuck they never wore rubbers?" |
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I felt ashamed to have ever complained |
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about my lack of gear |
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And thought about how far we done came |
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From trailer park to a front yard |
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with trees in the sky |
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Thank you mama dry your eyes, |
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there ain't no reason to cry |
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You made a genius and I, |
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ain't gon' take it for granted |
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I ain't gon' settle for lesser, |
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I ain't gon' take what they handed |
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Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me |
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and show you that I can fly |
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And show ol' girl what she missing |
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The illest nigga alive |
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Aye who am I? |
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Things change, rearrange and so do I |
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It ain't always for the better dawg I can't lie |
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I get high cause the lows can be so cold |
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I might bend a little bit but I don't fold |
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One time for my mind and two for yours |
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I got food for your thoughts to sooth your soul |
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If you see my tears fall just let me be |
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Move along, nothing to see |
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I never felt better |