| Yo, what’s up Marco?
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| What’s up Brooklyn?
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| Filthy rich
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| People in the audience, Masta Ace the name
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| I write rhymes and insert them inside your vein
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| They run through your bloodstream, get inside your brain
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| Cause I first put my name up inside the train
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| My mic control has been unprecendented
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| And you wrong if you thought you was the best that did it
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| See I just started messing with it, I been married to the
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| Game since '88, you just committed
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| The entire fate of the whole Empire States
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| Into hands of a man that’s here to inspire hate
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| Hate for the state of the music
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| And all these other cats looking for another way to abuse it
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| I wake you up like a gun in the face
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| I’m just here to let you know who’s like running the place
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| And everywhere that I perform and do a show
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| As long as you know
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| «This is for those that don’t know the half»
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| «Backtrack turn back the page»
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| «Let me show y’all new rappers»
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| «That's how the game go»
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| «This is for those that don’t know the half»
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| «Backtrack turn back the page»
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| «Don't be missing any word I say»
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| You love to hear the story, again and again
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| How it all got started from beginning to end
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| When cats used to run in a pack and slaughter
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| The rooftop, Union Square and the latin quarter
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| And if you came alone then your chain was gone
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| Unless you was from the hood and your name was known (yup)
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| And even then you was taking a risk
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| They would rush you for your chain while you was taking a piss
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| Hip hop used to be so thick in the air
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| When it was there you ain’t even need a kick and a snare
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| It could have been finger snaps and hand claps
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| But nowadays it feels a little different when a man raps
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| The track commence and these cats are french
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| The media lacking sense, what I rap’s intense and
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| I be the best in these rap events
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| And how I got this far? |
| It’s called experience, come on
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| «This is for those that don’t know the half»
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| «Backtrack turn back the page»
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| «Let me show y’all new rappers»
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| «That's how the game go»
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| «This is for those that don’t know the half»
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| «Backtrack turn back the page»
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| «Don't be missing any word I say»
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| Yo it’s the Ace in the flesh, of course I’m fresh
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| Oh you thought that I was rotten? |
| Huh, you must have gotten
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| A bad sack of weed cause I track your speed
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| I run up, fondle your wife and smack your seed
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| I’ve been a star since Pat Benatar
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| And I still want the house, the boat, the truck and the car
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| The limousine with the big screen and the bar
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| I’m trying to eat, watch it pour on like vine-gar
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| Cause I’m old and grey, control the day
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| I’m kinda like the light cause I show the way
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| I’m the one to collect the funds and hold the pay
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| The kind that fold away then I strolled away
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| Shit, I can’t name all the hits we charted
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| That crazy ass Crooklyn ass shit, we got it
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| We came here tonight to get started
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| To cold act ill and get retarded
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| «This is for those that don’t know the half»
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| «Backtrack turn back the page»
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| «Let me show y’all new rappers»
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| «That's how the game go»
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| «This is for those that don’t know the half»
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| «Backtrack turn back the page»
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| «Don't be missing any word I say»
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| «In this rap game»
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| «This might be my last» |