| Take a long time to learn and some people, they never get it
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| You shouldn’t talk about it if you know you never did it
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| The hardest thing I ever had to do is see a friend die
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| Touched me somewhere deep inside the day I see my mama cry
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| People say we gotta leave, mama couldn’t pay the rent
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| I was just a little nigger, really couldn’t do shit
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| I ain’t sayin' my particular situation is unique
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| And I ain’t sayin' you gotta believe every word that I speak
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| Maybe there’s someone out there who’s goin' through some real pain
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| Maybe I inspire them when I talk about my life
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| Like never been a superstar
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| Travelled all around the world
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| Groupies and expensive cars
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| That’s the better story to tell
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| The hard times, stressed out, feelin' like it’s only you
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| Goin' through fuck shit
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| Feel like ain’t nothin' left to do
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| But negative to make your life more positive
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| It’s all on you, pimpin' what I’m sayin' nigger
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| Still duckin' from sirens (no pain)
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| I went and got my own work when nobody was hirin'
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| A shoe box and a stash box no financial advisor
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| And I’ll die before I’ll place my right hand upon a bible
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| In other words I’ll see a grave before I’ll testify to things that I’ve
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| witnessed and survived through
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| Look at me, servin' like me workin' at a drive through
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| Sixteen and married to the fast money, I do
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| Comin' from the bottom where so many people died through
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| According to the guns I shouldn’t’ve made it out of high-school
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| I just go and get it, we in deep shit if I lose
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| You get in my way then you’ll be makin' Channel 5 news
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| I’m out tryin' to make enough cake for all my brothers
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| But Gimmy got shot and close won’t cut it
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| If you look check to check, nothin' you can do or budget
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| Bet me, I’m on the interstate in a rental car from budget
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| I’m flyer than a pro in all-black but I’m duckin' cause I know that they gon'
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| see me
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| Up the river if they bust me
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| Yea I got a check cause I practiced and studied
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| I believe in skill, you believe in bein' luggy
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| When you involve money, niggers' visions get fuzzy
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| All I got is kin, I got no roof or friends and buddies
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| I’m headin' to the top, head first from out the gutter
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| If I get away smooth I can’t believe I’m not butter
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| Nothing is ever for free, your greatest weapon is knowledge
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| The streets was pullin' on me so I didn’t get off to college
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| I learned this world on my own, no classroom or teachers
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| I got my money from geekers, hear my life through your speakers
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| People love me have to struggle so they hear me and feel it
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| My persona kinda pimpers with the humblest spirit
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| Ain’t got no hate for no niggers but hustle all I respect
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| If you got kids and family you need to go find a check
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| I know that shit don’t be easy so mamas do it alone
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| Just a baby with a baby tryin' to leave on her own
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| I know you heard it before, it was on my heart so I said it
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| Really I typed in my phone, went in a booth and I read it
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| Over a beat that inspired what I got off inside
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| I know people that’s getting' it hard and they sick and they tired
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| Working extra hard tryin' to keep the little shit they got
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| Ask everyone who did it how they made it to the top
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