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The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it |
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Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message |
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As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression |
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And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question: |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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When shit hit the fan 'one two, one two' |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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|
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The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it |
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Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message |
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As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression |
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And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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Do you believe in me? Are you deceiving me? |
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Could I let you down easily, is your heart where it need to be? |
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Is your smile on permanent? Is your vow on lifetime? |
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Would you know where the sermon is if I died in this next line? |
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If I'm tried in a court of law, if the industry cut me off |
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If the government want me dead, plant cocaine in my car |
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Would you judge me a drug kid or see me as K. Lamar |
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Or question my character and degrade me on every blog |
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Want you to love me like Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson |
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I freed you from being a slave in your mind, you're very welcome |
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You tell me my song is more than a song, it's surely a blessing |
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But a prophet ain't a prophet til they ask you this question |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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|
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan |
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|
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The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it |
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Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message |
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As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression |
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And with that |
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Do you believe in me? How much you believe in her? |
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You think she gon' stick around if them 25 years occur? |
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You think he can hold you down when you down behind bars hurt? |
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You think y'all on common ground if you promise to be the first? |
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Can you be immortalised without your life being expired? |
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Even though you share the same blood is it worth the time? |
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Like who got your best interest? Like how much are you dependent? |
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How clutch are the people that say they love you and who pretending? |
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How tough is your skin when they turn you in, do you show forgiveness? |
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What brush do you bend when dusting your shoulders from being offended |
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What kind of den did they put you in when the lions start hissing |
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What kind of bridge did they burn, revenge or your mind when it's mentioned? |
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You wanna love like Nelson, you wanna be like Nelson |
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You wanna walk in in his shoes but you peace-making seldom |
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You wanna be remembered that delivered the message |
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That considered the blessing of everyone, this your lesson for everyone, say |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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|
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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|
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The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it |
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Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every message |
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As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression |
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And if you riding with me nigga |
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I been wrote off before, I got abandonment issues |
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I hold grudges like bad judges, don't let me resent you |
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That's not Nelson-like, want you to love me like Nelson |
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I went to Robben's Island analysing, that's where his cell is |
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So I could find clarity, like how much you cherish me |
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Is this relationship a fake or real as the heavens be? |
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See I got to question it all, family, friends, fans, cats, dogs |
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Trees, plants, grass, how the wind blow |
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Murphy's Law, generation X, will I ever be your X? |
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Floss off a baby step, mobbed by the mouth of |
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Pit bulls, put me under stress |
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Crawled under rocks, ducking y'all, it's respect |
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But then tomorrow, put my back against the wall |
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How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead? |
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Is it Moses, is it Huey Newton or Detroit Red? |
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Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shoot or you assassin |
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Is it Jackie, is it Jesse, oh I know, it's Michael Jackson, oh |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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|
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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That nigga gave us Billie Jean, you say he touched those kids? |
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When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? |
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|
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The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it |
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Let my word be your earth and moon you consume every message |
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As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression |
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And if you riding with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga |
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I remember you was conflicted |
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Misusing your influence |
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Sometimes I did the same |
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Abusing my power, full of resentment |
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Resentment that turned into a deep depression |
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Found myself screaming in the hotel room |
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I didn't wanna self destruct |
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The evils of Lucy was all around me |
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So I went running for answers |
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Until I came home |
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But that didn't stop survivor's guilt |
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Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned |
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Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was |
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But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city |
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I was entering a new one |
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A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination |
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Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned |
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The word was respect |
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Just because you wore a different gang colour than mine's |
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Doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man |
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Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets |
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If I respect you' we unify and stop the enemy from killing us |
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But I don't know' I'm no mortal man' maybe I'm just another nigga |
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Shit and that's all I wrote |
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I was gonna call it Another Nigga but' it ain't really a poem' |
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I just felt like it's something you probably could relate to' Other than that' |
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now that |
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I finally got a chance to holla at you' |
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I always wanted to ask you about a certain situa--' |
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about a metaphor actually' you spoke on the ground' |
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What you mean 'bout that' what the ground represent? |
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The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil |
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Right |
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That's how I see it' my word is bond' |
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I see and the ground is the symbol for the poor people' |
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the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and |
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swallow up the rich people' |
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Cause the rich people gonna be so fat' |
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they gonna be so appetising' you know what I'm saying' |
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wealthy' |
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appetising' The poor gonna be so poor and hungry' |
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you know what I'm saying it's gonna be like |
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there might be some cannibalism out this mutha' |
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they might eat the rich |
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Aight so let me ask you this then' do you see yourself |
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as somebody that's rich or somebody |
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that made the best of their own opportunities? |
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I see myself as a natural born hustler' |
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a true hustler in every sense of the word' I took nothin |
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I took the opportunities' |
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I worked at the most menial |
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and degrading job and built myself up |
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so I could get it to where I owned it' |
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I went from having somebody manage me |
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to me hiring the person that works my management company' |
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I changed everything |
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I realised my destiny in a matter of five years you know |
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what I'm saying |
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I made myself a millionaire' |
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I made millions for a lot of people now |
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it's time to make millions for myself' |
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you know what I'm saying' |
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I made millions for the record companies' |
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I made millions for these movie companies' |
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now I make millions for us |
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And through your different avenues of success' |
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how would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity? |
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By my faith in God' by my faith in the game' |
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and by my faith in all good things come to those |
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that stay true' You know what I'm saying' |
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and it was happening to me for a reason' |
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you know what I'm saying' |
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I was noticing' shit' |
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I was punching the right buttons and it was happening' |
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So it's no problem' you know |
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I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know' |
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I'm finna go straight through |
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Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart |
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or somebody that only reacts |
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when they back is against the wall? |
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Shit' I like to think that at every opportunity |
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I've ever been threatened with resistance it's been met with resistance' |
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And not only me but it goes down my family tree' |
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You know what I'm saying' it's in my veins to fight back |
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Aight well' how long you think it take before niggas be like' |
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we fighting a war' I'm fighting a war |
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I can't win and I wanna lay it all down |
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In this country a black man only have like 5 years |
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we can exhibit maximum strength' |
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and that's right now while you a teenager' |
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while you still strong |
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or while you still wanna lift weights' |
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while you still wanna shoot back' |
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Cause once you turn 30 |
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it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man' |
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out of a black man in this country' |
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And you don't wanna fight no more' |
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And if you don't believe me you can look around' |
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you don't see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafuckas |
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That's crazy' because me being one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind |
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I can truly tell you |
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that there's nothing but turmoil goin' |
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on so I wanted to ask you |
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what you think is the future for me and my generation today? |
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I think that niggas is tired of grabbin' |
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shit out the stores and next time |
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it's a riot there's gonna be' |
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like' |
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uh' bloodshed for real' I don't think America know that' |
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I think American think we was just playing |
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and it's gonna be some more playing |
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but it ain't gonna be no playing' |
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It's gonna be murder' you know |
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what I'm saying' it's gonna be like Nat Turner' |
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1831' up in this muthafucka' |
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You know what I'm saying' it's gonna happen |
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That's crazy man' In my opinion' only hope |
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that we kinda have left is music and vibrations' |
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lotta people don't understand how important it is' |
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Sometimes I be like' |
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get behind a mic and |
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I don't know what type of energy I'mma push out' |
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or where it comes from' |
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Trip me out sometimes |
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Because the spirits' we ain't even really rappin'' |
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we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us |
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Damn |
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I wanted to read one last thing to you' |
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It's actually something a good friend |
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had wrote describing my world' It says |
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The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets |
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that conceived it |
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It's only job is to eat or consume everything around it' |
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in order to protect itself from this mad city |
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While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive |
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One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him' but praises the butterfly |
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The butterfly represents the talent' the thoughtfulness' and the beauty within the caterpillar |
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But having a harsh outlook on life |
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the caterpillar sees the butterfly |
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as weak and figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits |
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Already surrounded by this mad city |
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the caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon |
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which institutionalizes him |
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He can no longer see past his own thoughts |
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He's trapped |
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When trapped inside these walls certain ideas |
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start to take roots' such as going home' |
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and bringing back new concepts to this mad city |
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The result? |
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Wings begin to emerge' breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant |
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Finally free' the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered' |
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ending the internal struggle |
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Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different' |
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they are one and the same' |
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What's your perspective on that? |
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Pac? Pac? |
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Pac?! |
