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Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son |
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Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin? |
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Yea yea |
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Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin? |
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Yea yea |
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Cause we spendin these Jackson's |
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The Washington's go to wifey, you know how that go |
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I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right? |
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Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin? |
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Visualizin the realism of life and actuality |
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Fuck who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary |
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And my mentality is, money orientated I'm destined to live |
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the dream for all my peeps who never made it cause yeah, |
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we were beginners in the hood as five percenters But somethin |
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must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners Now some, |
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restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin Others such |
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as myself are tryin to carry on tradition Keepin the schwepervesence |
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street ghetto essence inside us Cause it provides us with the |
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proper insight to guide us Even though, we know somehow we |
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all gotta go but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin |
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with some kind of dough so, and to that day we expire and |
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turn to vapors me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty |
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papers Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high |
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Cause life's a bitch and then you die |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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that's why we get high Cause you never know |
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when you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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that's why we puff lye Cause you never know when |
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you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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that's why we get high Cause you never know when |
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you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die; |
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that's why we puff lye |
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--> chorus #1 echoes at the end |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die --> chorus #2 includes these lines, echoes at the end |
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I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years |
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of blessing The essence of adolescent leaves my |
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body now I'm fresh in My physical frame is celebrated |
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cause I made it One quarter through life some God-ly |
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like thing created Got rhymes 365 days annual plus |
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some Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs |
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from my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money |
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maintain Don't go against the grain simple and plain |
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When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard |
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Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip |
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they green cards Dipped to the projects flashin my quick |
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cash and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with |
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hash Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I |
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used to run with is rich or doin years in the hundreds |
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I switched my motto -- instead of sayin fuck tomorrow |
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That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the |
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lotto Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce |
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stacks I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot |
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back Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric |
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Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage |