| By myself
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| H.O.J., even when I’m by myself
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| Little Brother, even when I’m by myself
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| Foreign Exchange, even when I’m by myself
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| Zo! |
| & Tigallo, even when I’m by myself
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| Justus League, even when I’m by myself
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| Phontigallo for dolo
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| Smile for the camera, nigga, pose for the photo
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| Pause for the promo
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| Cause failure’s a no-no
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| Back on my fly shit
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| So green with envy, kiss me, I’m Irish
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| Niggas be asking me «Who we got to ride with? |
| «They saying «Come back Tay, we been cravin'»
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| We need LB to come and save the rap game
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| But, truthfully
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| I don’t think the shit needs savin'
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| I think we got wives and sons that need raisin'
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| New dreams to fill and for that, we need patience
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| Twenty-one years old, I used to slang verses
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| But ten years later, I am not the same person
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| Whole new perspective, not the same purpose
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| And sometimes I have to question if I even want it
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| Not mad at the game cause it is what it is
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| And not mad at the radio cause I don’t know what’s on it
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| Be in my own universes when I be doing verses
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| Burn 'em down like the Klan used to do to churches
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| Back in the day in my town, nigga
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| Don’t come around if you a clown nigga, then go and do the circus
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| First, do the knowledge, then do the purchase
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| Understand why, against me, a coup is worthless
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| Battle Tay?
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| That’s the dumbest shit I ever heard since
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| Ex-hoes claiming that they’re born-again virgins
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| Feeling like a born-again version
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| Of myself, thought I left the shit I used to listen to
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| 'Til one day, I was playing my old shit like
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| «Who the fuck is this? |
| I kind of miss this dude.»
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| It’s the same old Tigga that slowed your whole movement
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| And y’all dudes just all show and no provin'
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| And honestly, I like what them young boys is doin'
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| But my niggas like «Tay, they close, but no Cuban»
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| Like I was the chosen
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| One for flowin'
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| I’m done, the rap game’s No Country For Old Men
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| I’ll always spit whenever the spirit hits me
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| But fuck if I’m a be doing this shit when I’m sixty
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| And that’s no disrespect to KRS
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| I’m just trying to make my art and do what’s smart
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| I’m saying
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| Rapping Tay, four-and-half-mic honoree
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| Or singing Tay, first-time Grammy nominee
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| Nigga, you do the math
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| Nigga, you add it up
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| That’s on my mind when I press record
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| A lot of niggas probably mad at me
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| But I would rather be a lonely wolf than a sheep that’s bored
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| So fuck it
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| Be by myself
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| Big Pooh, even when I’m by myself
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| Big Dho, even when I’m by myself
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| Nicolay, even when I’m by myself
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| My nigga Zo!, even when I’m by myself
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| Median, even when I’m by myself
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| Yazarah, even when I’m by myself
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| DJ Flash, even when I’m myself
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| «God bless and good night» — Big Pooh |