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They say the sky is the limit |
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Well I guess it all depends on you |
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In your views |
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In this American dream |
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Don't tell me that the sky is the limit |
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Cause it ain't about what you can do |
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It's a who knows who |
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In this American dream |
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Okay you got criminals everywhere, right? |
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Criminals smugglin' dope across borders to feed America's high appetite |
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Kis, pounds, ounces, grams, whatever the weight of substance is gettin' towed |
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Cause drugs got a price |
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Home hydroponics, LSD chemist |
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Spoon cookin' heroine, junkies fill up methadone clinics |
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Get caught for crack and catch a long sentence |
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You ask me how I feel about that, maybe you got the wrong witness |
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I heard Jay Z's cool with Obama |
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Obama must be cool with me then I guess if I'm packin' up this Honda |
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I highly doubt it but fuck it, it's worth a shout out |
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At least that's what I tell the judge before I gracefully bowed out |
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Meanwhile I'm gettin' taken to the county for recieve |
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There's a news flash on the holdin' cell TV |
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Boston bombed by a terrorist at a marathon |
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8 year old killed and the killer's still free |
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Shit is hard to believe |
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They say the sky is the limit |
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Well I guess it all depends on you |
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In your views |
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In this American dream |
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Don't tell me that the sky is the limit |
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Cause it ain't about what you can do |
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It's a who knows who |
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In this American dream |
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I ain't no politically savvy citizen |
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I'm just an average man who writes poetry about witnessin' fuckery |
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And these police who always fuck with me |
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Do time for sharin' dirt, my boy trusted me |
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But I picked music over hustlin', and I made it out luckily |
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Could've been on corners droppin' quarters from a bucket seat |
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My cousins preach about the lord but all I see is crime |
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If the Vatican has got the book then what the fuck is mine? |
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Just a line with a hook |
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You might as well be a rapper cause you signed and get booked |
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All the same to a suit |
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Black or white, you still a crook |
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If you ain't a Justin Leave It to Beaver with that look |
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Then just drop the egg in the skillet, let it cook |
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Who y'all bein' took |
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No I'm not a crook, son but this one ain't shook |
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But I'm rollin' Mobb Deep, my dreams on a Harley Davidson |
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Pigs, I hardly wave at them, yeah I said hardly |
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If I'm rude then pardon me but remember... |
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They say the sky is the limit |
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Well I guess it all depends on you |
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In your views |
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In this American dream |
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Don't tell me that the sky is the limit |
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Cause it ain't about what you can do |
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It's a who knows who |
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In this American dream |
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My grandparents retired from 9 to 5s |
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Then paid for my hospital bills when mama was doin' lines |
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I wasn't raised up like the model American |
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But I love what it made me, life is all about where and whens |
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Whos and hows that ultimately create my heritage |
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My great grandaddy Otis would sit down in his chair and then |
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Smoke a cigarette while he sipped on Muscatine moonshine |
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Homemade, and reminisce about the old days |
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He died of cancer when I was 5 |
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I wasn't allowed to go see him in his casket cause I would've cried |
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I got so much value off life in such a short time |
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Memories stick to my heart and today they still apply |
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They used to share crops when they were poor |
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He worked his ass off at the mill and then he opened up a store |
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Both of my granddaddies fought a war |
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So I can say what I'm sayin' in this record for you and yours |
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For you and yours, true |
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They say the sky is the limit |
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Well I guess it all depends on you |
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In your views |
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In this American dream |
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Don't tell me that the sky is the limit |
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Cause it ain't about what you can do |
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It's a who knows who |
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In this American dream |
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