| You know we keep it true — we keep it true we keep it true we
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| Keep it true
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| You know we keep it true — we got to keep it true we got to keep
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| It true
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| We got to keep it true — you know what we do you know what
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| We do
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| We got to keep it true
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| Relax your mind w/the music — you know what we do you know what we do
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| Sit back and vibe w/this true shit
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| This isn’t really what you think it is
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| That is if you’re even thinkin' in the first place
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| The first place isn’t always the winner
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| And winnin' isn’t everything
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| And this is not a race
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| I am not a android I am not a mongoloid
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| I am not annoyed by the void in your brain
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| This is not a trick son you are not a victim
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| You are just a man b-boyed out the game
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| Let me explain
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| Abstract are you fresh?
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| Ain’t nobody fresher
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| But it’s hard to get around w/out some clown tryin' to test ya
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| Acey are you dope? |
| Dopest in the world
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| I give it to the moms and pops I give it to the boys and girls
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| Oh so you a family man? |
| Aren’t we all aren’t we all
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| Yes we are, Trying to make jams man and expand my repertoire
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| We got to keep it true we got to keep it true — relax your mind w/the music
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| You know what we do you know what we do — sit back and vibe w/this true shit
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| Well I be arrangin' thoughts in my brain cell family
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| embarking on incredible creative routes
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| Understanding me is truth shining like a lie
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| When I say break wide I mean take trips not just in your ride
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| In your mind
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| Cause when you left you’re right on time
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| The sun’ll come out tomorrow and it’ll set in the west
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| So I don’t sweat the rest
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| Who wanna inhale stress
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| Keep it true
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| You know we keep it true — we keep it true we keep it true we
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| Keep it true
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| You know we keep it true — you know what we do you know what we
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| Do
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| We got to keep it true — the W the W the W
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| We got to keep it true
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| Relax your mind w/the music — and keep it true and keep it true
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| Sit back and vibe w/this true shit
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| The world is full of bullshitters
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| Liars and triers and quitters
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| Could-a-beens wanna be’s thought-i-was isn’t-i-is's
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| And everybody in your business
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| Damn
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| Now what is really your main aim
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| When you are just a blotch and a stain on the planetary plane
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| Just another name in the phone book of fame
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| Bustin' out the seams it seems you haven’t gained enough
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| To be seen in the right scene
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| Your thoughts they seem so convincing hmmm
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| But your actions don’t follow through
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| Remember
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| Never say never because it never comes true
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| Your thoughts they seem so convincing for instance
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| You told me that you’re a level higher
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| Liar
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| Element of desire earth and the wind and the fire
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| Not
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| You ain’t even halfway hot
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| Not lukewarm you don’t got no form
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| You (…)
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| All caught up in bein' waterproof
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| When you shoulda been tryin' to catch up w/the truth
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| For all intent and purposes your life on earth ain’t worth it’s weight in
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| Gold
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| That’s probably why you get blowed
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| Cause people tell people things and people sell people things
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| That are useless and irrelevant
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| And it stifles my intelligence
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| I stay true
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| You know we keep it true — and we keep on and keep on and keep on
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| You know we keep it true — we keep it true we keep it true
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| You can mumble jumble if you got somethin' to say
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| But I doubt it’s gonna affect me I row my boat steady
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| Everready is my battery description
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| Meaning I’m equipped to take long trips
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| And my brain cells overload when I get blowed
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| Gotta bring it down there’s a point where the joint stops
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| Being passed through the fingers of a rhyme (?singers?)
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| The smoke from my last hit still lingers
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| Bring us your tired and your weary and your poor
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| I’m a take you higher while you’re hearing metaphors
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| And similes
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| Assimilation of new creation
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| Mind emancipation
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| Rhymes command the nation
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| And so on and therefor and such and such
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| Dust to dust I thrust from the ground
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| W/no where else to go but up L.A. is where I’m found
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| Throwin' up sets and blowin' up sets and goin' up Stepney
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| About to get a heavy track
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| (?or jimmy in the spot?)
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| Or plenty of hip hop goin' round three
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| Heavyweights it’s your time so register
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| Foundate your legacy we serve all them replicas
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| True style true style?
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| True style new style
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| You know we keep it true — we keep it true we keep it true we keep it true
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| You know we keep it true — the W and every crew we keep it true
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| We got to keep it true — from me to you do what you do just keep it
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| True
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| We got to keep it true — relax your mind w/the music
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| Now I’m gonna take my last verse on a good note
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| You better prepare your footnotes
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| Hold your wigs tight
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| Open up the middle
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| (?center me in the more?)
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| Words are the foundation action is the building and unity
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| And the concept to result in logic and the use of logic
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| Now the object to be neutral partial to a judgement
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| And the subject’s concentration here is the pop quiz
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| What hip hop is
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| You know we keep it true — relax your mind w/the music
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| We got to keep it true — sit back and vibe to this true shit
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| The wrong thing to do is stop |