| Most important thing in business is honesty, integrity
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| Hard work, family
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| Never forgetting where we came from
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| Poor me, dad was gone, finally got my dad back
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| Liver bad, he wouldn’t live long, that snatched my dad back
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| Guidance? |
| I never had that, streets was my second home
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| Welcomed me with open arms provided a place to crash at
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| A place to study math at, matter of fact, I learned it all
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| Burned it all, this music is where I bury the ashes at
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| Flash back, not having much, not having that
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| Had to get some challah bread so you can holla back and
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| Holla at my Jewish lawyer to enjoy the fruit of letting my cash stack
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| And just in case a nigga gotta use his rat-tat-tat-tat-tat
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| Own boss, own your masters, slaves
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| The mentality I carry with me to this very day
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| Fuck rich, let’s get wealthy, who else gon' feed we?
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| If I need it, I’ma get it however, God help me
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| And I don’t need no hook for this shiiiit
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| I’m so fa sho', it’s no facade
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| «Stay outta trouble», momma said as momma sighed
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| Her fear: her youngest son be a victim of homicide
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| But I gotta get you outta here momma, or I’ma, die… inside
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| And either way, you lose me momma so let loose of me
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| I got the rein our direction will soon change
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| To live and die in N.Y. in the hustle game
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| Hustle 'caine, hustle clothes, I hustle music
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| But hustle hard in any hustle that you pick
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| Skinny nigga, toothpick, but, but I do lift
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| Weight like I’m using 'roids
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| Rolls-Royce keep my movements, smooth while maneuvering
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| Through all the manure in the sewer that I grew up in
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| Choices, we make trying to escape, shit
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| And I don’t need no hook for this shiiiit
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| This is not for commercial usage
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| Please don’t categorize this as music
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| Please don’t compare me to other rappers
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| Compare me to trappers, I’m more Frank Lucas than Ludacris
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| And Luda’s my dude, I ain’t trying to diss
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| Like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain’t trying to snitch
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| I’ma follow the rules no matter how much time I’ma get
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| I’ma live and die with the decisions that I’ma pick
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| So fuck DeHaven for caving, that’s why we don’t speak
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| Made men ain’t supposed to make statements
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| End of the story, I followed the code, cracked the safe
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| Other niggas ain’t in the game so they practice hate
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| Leave that boy Hov' alone, why don’t cha?
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| You don’t have to if you don’t want to
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| But don’t say I didn’t warn ya
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| Oh… and I don’t need no hook for this shiiiit |