| Yo, it’s taking a lot for me to give y’all all of me
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| For y’all to take it and run with it
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| And turn it into some shit that it’s not
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| Yo, exceeded my expectations a while ago
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| They wondering why Dizzy the one that’s always smiling for
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| I listen a lot and look at everything I done accomplished, mane
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| Still, my baby girl and son is the main thing that I value most
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| Family, fuck a xanny, I’m puffing on this flower though
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| You piece of shit, no thang, we keep it lit
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| No hard feelings, don’t ever change, don’t ever quit
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| When I found out living legends still exist, I knew I had to commit
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| So I heard that this new generation was waiting on me
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| After The Golden Age, these old heads been praying for me
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| To get involved, maybe vent to y’all, and make an impact
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| Better plant a seed and water that bitch and watch it grow
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| Now how many times I gotta say it? |
| I been down and out
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| But you only get so many chances till you’re fouling out
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| And I’m like, «Let me live without taking no breaths»
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| My mind is focused on which task I’m finna take on next, uh
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| I think back when I just hung with my dawgs
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| My mama could never keep a man 'cause we was running him off
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| Needed a father figure but I don’t like how he coming across
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| He end up gone, she was sad but I felt like that’s his loss
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| I told her, «Never bend your head, look the world straight in the eyes»
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| «You deserve love, but a queen don’t need a king to survive»
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| And it’s a blessing to be able to rap and not feed y’all lies
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| Or fake my happiness like everything’s just fine
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| I mean, we all human beings but we not alike
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| 'Cause the loudest on the Internet get to sleep through a quiet night
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| It’s a big difference and it’s teaching me a lot about who we are, how like
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| Money don’t change people, it just bring out who they truly are
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| Man, I done seen the most from coast to coast
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| They got us crossing over the border line
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| I don’t got all the answers but we need to be more organized
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| So here’s a little enlightening for your peace of mind
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| Everything you need in this life you live will come at the perfect time
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| So God bless America
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| In God we trust
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| Born in royalty, they can’t take that from us
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| No matter what, runs through our blood
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| We have the power, we just lack the trust (trust!)
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| Just have your faith and believe
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| Keep calm, my young kings and queens
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| Watch and you’ll see, and when that day comes
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| May God bless America
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| Uh, follow me, follow me through the hardships
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| Pardon my need to be swift with how I start this speech
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| Who you more like? |
| Malcolm or Martin?
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| The game that they play with us, brother, don’t have no cartridge
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| Button mashers, disaster casters, they ass backwards
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| I might slave for a meal but you ain’t my master
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| Running through the field, all I hear is laughter
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| 'Cause them chains that kept us here can no longer capture
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| The heart of my folk, foot on my the throat of my oppressor
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| For all of them ropes, they tied a tree for my ancestors
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| If limbs could talk, they’d cry for days
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| Sad, they gave all they had but couldn’t break under pressure
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| Blood on the leaves, Glock on the dresser
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| Them laws plotting, protect and serve but I know better
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| The news a lie, to you and I, TV ain’t real
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| So don’t you try, to be like none of them Housewives
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| Selling us fools' gold
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| Tell a son to slang dope and daughter twerk when they get old
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| Damn shame, how we find time to sit around
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| Smoking and dranking, while they corporate banking
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| Don’t be content with the hood, nigga, what is you thinking?
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| I got a small violin if you don’t vote for complaining
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| About the government, stand up on some brother shit
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| And stop being on some other shit, God bless America
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| Despite all the barriers
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| If you do whatever you do every day
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| You can get it
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| I did it
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| From the poorest, they said I gotta push for all my dreams and they flourished
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| Then a forest full of obstacles, I got the dope 'cause I’m morest
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| Don’t ignore it, that I built this vocab without a thesaurus
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| When the war is pressing, they be asking me questions like Katie Couric
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| Like, «Did you sell dope when you fell broke?»
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| Tryna stop a male’s hope who never dropped the jail soap
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| Made it up out of Hell’s scope, they ask, can I spell «vote»?
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| I’m feeling like they tryna tell jokes, Chappelle wrote
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| I’m a U.S. citizen escaping the penitentiary they hid us in
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| This kid has been fitted to quit and then spit it and shit again
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| But I became noble and well-rounded like an oval
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| Never will I be grounded for disposal
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| Everybody be astounded by the mogul, Tech N9ne!
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| No more saying, «I can’t afford this»
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| Even when I was down, my plan was to never abort this
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| Don’t forget, they said I sold my soul, that’s horse shit
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| 'Cause I simply thought my way onto the Forbes List
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| So God bless America
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| In God we trust
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| Born in royalty, they can’t take that from us
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| No matter what, runs through our blood
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| We have the power, we just lack the trust (trust!)
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| Just have your faith and believe
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| Keep calm, my young kings and queens
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| Watch and you’ll see, and when that day comes
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| May God bless America |