| Alright listen. |
| You got 15 minutes to get ready. |
| You’re gonna miss the bus
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| again*
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| Did you hear me? |
| Well, I got two options for you.
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| Either you finish school or you find a job and help out around here.
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| I don’t know what you think you’re gonna do living like this.
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| «I'm feelin’another part of reality" — Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'
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| «Let's take a sec to think back" — Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'
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| I’m from places where blacks live a block from the racists
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| You can go to hood to wood in twenty paces
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| Casinos and kilos of blow is how we famous
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| And Raekwon’s song +Incarcerated Scarfaces+ is CT
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| 860 to 203
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| Where you can come up pumpin’a few O.Z.'s
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| Tryin’movin', well respected, duh, you know me
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| A Doe Raker, always stay around a few O.G.'s
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| Who push substance
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| College kids tryin’to cop somethin'
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| Down at Grattin at the Naval base, hoes stay buzzin'
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| Run around, stay fuckin', always cheatin’on they husbands
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| Saw her creepin’at Mohegan even though she said she wasn’t
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| Ask my man Mo
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| Them younger dudes in New London
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| Been puffin’on that wet, get upset and start gunnin'
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| Me and Open Mic used to roll with Zulu in New Haven
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| Till we build with Alien Nation and made the seperation
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| That was '96
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| +Killin'Me Softly+ was my shit
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| I remember Louie flipped when he had a bad trip
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| Left school my freshman year, plannin’to rap
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| Thought I was dyin’when I started havin’panic attacks
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| It’s like
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| «I'm feelin’another part of reality" — Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'
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| «Let's take a sec to think back" — Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'
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| «I remember»
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| 125th Street in '95
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| «I remember»
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| K-Superior taught me to rhyme live
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| «I remember»
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| Travelin’to Philly to record with Vinnie
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| «I remember»
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| Celph first movin’to New York City
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| «I remember»
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| Rock Steady’s Anniversary was insane
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| Beatnuts, Fat Joe, Pun, Big Daddy Kane
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| Gang Starr, Organized Konfusion, a lot of names
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| But around '99 everything changed
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| The Internet blew up
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| Fans turned to rappers
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| Rookies swore to God they was microphone masters
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| Complete metamorphosis, a turn for the worst
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| I feel like a preacher man and someone burned down my church
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| Been all over this Earth and now that rap is my work
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| I don’t love it like I used to and that shit hurts
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| I’m like '88 days
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| Smooth shit to rock
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| Gold ropes thick as tomb ships use to dock
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| It’s like
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| «I'm feelin’another part of reality" — Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'
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| «Let's take a sec to think back" — Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'
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| «I remember»
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| Mayday’s basement in the summer
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| «I remember»
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| Rockin’Hawaii with 8th Wonder
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| «I remember»
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| One important thing and it had to be
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| «I remember»
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| When my father told me to look up the word apathy
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| Yeah, uh. |
| Curdy Cut, rest in peace. |
| Yeah, uh, Demigodz. |
| Yeah, uh |