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Like oh he's broke i told you he was broke |
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I told you he ain't got no money |
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Or you know this and that or whatever whatever |
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Then you'll see some other people |
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You'll put that you're here in this house |
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Oh joey done made it he bought a crib |
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He this he that so it's all a story |
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It's a perception that people make for you |
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Along the way |
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So it's not really what it necessarily is at any point or given at time |
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And that's the thing that concerns me |
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Break it down |
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We break it down like |
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Joey bad he break it down like |
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My ***** fly he break it down like |
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My ***** statik break it down like |
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah |
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1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 |
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Alright alright alright alright |
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Uh |
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First things first is i been rehearsing these verses |
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In hopes that i hit the surface and keep myself afloat |
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But i know one day i'm earning me some platinum and some gold |
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And all them labels could just reimburse this ***** in they throat |
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And tell my mama oh no your purses will never run low |
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No more cause back when i was four and we was poor |
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You would purchase the store |
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So here i go your little man has got to grow |
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I'm walking out the door |
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My mama just be smiling cause she know |
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I got my back and got her worried |
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Only thing she ask is that i hurry |
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Home in time for christmas for some dinner |
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Seen you on tv again boy you looking thinner |
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But you looking like a winner aye |
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You got to give to get and then you give back |
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You got to give to get and then you give back |
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You got to give to get and then you give back |
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Then you give back then you then you give back |
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Worst thing worse i could've been stealing your purse |
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Or just been putting in work and leaving *****s in the dirt |
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But ever since birth i knew i would be something on this earth |
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So now i spit that **** that *****t be hittin' ya nerve |
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And to my papa my word is my bond |
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When you held me in your arms |
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Did you know along that a star was born |
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Then you named me jo-vaughn now that name ring alarms |
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Nearly 20 years later we on a plane to the palms |
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I gotcha back and got her worried |
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Only thing i ask is for some curry |
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Chicken when we land we eatin' dinner |
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Mama seen me on tv again looking thinner |
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But i'm looking like a winner aye |
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You got to give to get and then you give back |
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You got to give to get and then you give back |
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You got to give to get and then you give back |
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Then you give back then you then you give back |
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Now i lay me down to sleep |
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I pray the lord my soul to keep |
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If i should die before i wake |
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I pray the lord my soul to take |
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Now i lay me down to sleep |
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I pray the lord my soul to keep |
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If i should die before i wake |
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I pray the lord my soul to take |
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Break it down |
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My soul to take |
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I pray the lord my soul to take |
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My soul to take |
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I pray the lord my soul to take |
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Break it down |
