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(Intro) |
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*****s be askin' me like, |
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"Man you took all that time off. I understand you had to |
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get your mind right or whatever you was doin' but I'm just curious to know like... |
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how you, how you gonna approach the next ******t?" |
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Say it's the same way I always do, not givin' a ***** |
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(Verse 1: Royce Da 5'9") |
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Million dollar maker, not a faker, try to call me over the hill |
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It's probably because you saw me chillin' beside a pile of paper |
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Life's a Picasso painting, psych, my life's more like an obstacle, ain't it? |
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Like it's somethin' in front of the drop, and I gotta ride around it |
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On my way to make me another child support payment |
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From humble beginnings, though we live lavishly now |
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And what we couldn't afford to get, we would have it somehow |
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Stayin' at grandma's, puddled in front of the open oven |
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Rubbin' our hands together like Baby with cameras around |
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Manic depressed, drawn to my tool |
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Genetically predisposed to be a mechanic or less |
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I handle my failures way better than I ever handled success |
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And I let you boys be the loudest, holdin' my fo' fo' |
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From '94, on my retro kick before I let you let go clips |
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I'll let Michael Jordan be my stylist |
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I'll rock one of them baggy ass Tracy McGrady suits |
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I've been poppin' since I was 5, that was in '82 |
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Believe that, a ***** been knockin' more lady's boots |
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Than Kanye critiquin' at Steve Madden |
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I'm just a LOX fan with childish thinkin' |
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The last time I got pulled over for drunk drivin' |
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I took the breathalyzer out the cop's hand and tried to drink it |
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That's what I do for my community |
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Your boo told me what she wanna do to me |
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Before she dropped on two knees and then blew me like an opportunity |
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(Hook: Royce da 5'9" + Venice Dawn) |
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To me, it's what I see(Real *****) |
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To you, it's what you do |
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Prhyme! |
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Ha ha ha-ha, if I could make *****s as real as me |
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Ha ha ha-ha, I'd ask, "How come *****s ain't real as me?" |
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To me, it's what I see |
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To you, it's what you do |
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Prhyme! |
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Ha ha ha-ha, if I could make *****s as real as me |
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Ha ha ha-ha, I'd ask, "How come *****s ain't real as me?" |
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(Bridge: Royce da 5'9") |
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Multiply, multiply |
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That's what the real *****s do |
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Multiply, multiply |
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That's on a real ***** |
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(Verse 2: Royce da 5'9") |
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Your favorite rapper's up in LIV |
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While I'm on controlled substances, search around my crib for a ***** to give |
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But I couldn't find it |
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My notebook should be made of a wooden binder |
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Cause that's what my albums be sellin' |
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But I don't give a ***** about nothin' but good ****** |
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Long as these *****s call me GOAT |
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If I don't get through to you the call failed |
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Cause I was probably on that Wolf of Wall Street boat, I'm a hard sell |
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Maybe too lyrical for 'em |
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The Lord gave me a choice to either be king or give all Hell |
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I chose the latter like a fireman climbin' up to a charred rail |
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In front of Miley, steerin' a giant wreckin' ball |
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Miss me with your mollies and your Tyrese wisdom |
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I don't connect with y'all and these antics |
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Today you give your life to the game |
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Tomorrow you be posin' in pictures, lookin' like Steve Francis |
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You ain't turnin' up, you're bein' backhanded like Pete Sampras |
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About that, I missed my uncle's funeral to go to South by Southwest |
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You ain't gotta appreciate it, but you better respect the fact |
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That I'm a rapper and nothin' wack done came out my mouth yet |
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(Hook: Royce da 5'9" + Venice Dawn) |
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To me, it's what I see(You're welcome!) |
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To you, it's what you do |
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Prhyme! |
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Ha ha ha-ha, if I could make *****s as real as me |
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Ha ha ha-ha, I'd ask, "how come *****s ain't real as me?" |
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To me, it's what I see |
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To you, it's what you do |
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Prhyme! |
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Ha ha ha-ha, if I could make *****s as real as me |
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Ha ha ha-ha, I'd ask, "how come *****s ain't real as me?" |
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(Verse 3: Jay Electronica) |
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Me and Pharaoh is like Dorothy and Toto on the brick road |
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Crossin' at the crissroads |
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The valleys and the alleys where the gods switch to ****** mode |
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I came through, the Harley pipe was loud like a lion |
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The title on the marquee said "Child out of Zion" |
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Contemplatin' on another plane, hoverin' down lover's lane |
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Won a great debate against the state about the mother plane |
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He called me by that other name, I called him by his other name |
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The lightnin' struck the internet like a screen door in a hurricane |
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Jay Electricity, baptizin' in Felicity |
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Where he been the past three years? It's just a mystery |
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If it ain't come from one of my peers, it ain't a diss to me |
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I'm a thousand leagues under the sea, *****s can't get to me |
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The F in my middle name with the period stands for "Victory" |
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I came from the bottoms of Hell with Jezebels |
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Sniffin' blow with her friends in the dens of iniquity |
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When I was young, I was confused, I thought God was a mystery |
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But everything I knew since the time I began to grew |
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Was taught to me by the wickedest men, who twist the histories |
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Who pulled out the cuffs of deception and and hitched their wrist to we |
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Now all praises due to Allah, we seein' crystally |
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The Pyramids are there to bear witness to the gods |
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So when the angels heard me spit, they bit their lip, this ******t is hard |
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Utterly unstoppable, in high school I was voted most popular |
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By the unpopular, phantom of the chakras |
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(Hook: Royce da 5'9" + Venice Dawn) |
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To me, it's what I see |
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To you, it's what you do |
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Prhyme! |
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Ha ha ha-ha, if I could make *****s as real as me |
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Ha ha ha-ha, I'd ask, "how come *****s ain't real as me?" |
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To me, it's what I see |
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To you, it's what you do |
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Prhyme! |
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Ha ha ha-ha, if I could make *****s as real as me |
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Ha ha ha-ha, I'd ask, "how come *****s ain't real as me?" |