| Original Man wave from Ghanaian sands
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| Human traffic jammed up like 80s crack wave hand-to-hands
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| When God asked after my brother… deadpan
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| Xeroxed your cover sold it two-for-six my part of the gutter along with Best of
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| Jadakiss
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| Cruel Summer
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| South African Embassy Danny Glover
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| You should know, your mother took a lover
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| Old Leopold, Congolese Beyonce Knowles laughing somewhere cold
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| Or in Dubai’s fake snow
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| Didn’t look up as he rolled, asked in Portuguese how much the hold hold
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| Laughed as the translation came in; |
| all systems go
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| White gold black gums white teeth Canal Street white heat bright Sudanese son
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| Hammer’n sickle in his blood so the Mosquitos don’t come
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| Milo in a tin cup, splash of west indian rum
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| Laser on a paper tray a cover smothers sheet and it’s gone
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| Copies in the office personal use like the weed in the jar
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| I’m a god I’m a wolf and a pig and a dog
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| It’s the weight of the world that made me strong
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| Black doo rag with the cape out at the Wu Mansion
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| Stranded
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| Hand stitched enchantment
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| I answer to my name
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| I got nothing to lose but these chains
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| Millyrock in the flame
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| Cash for gold, funny money at the jewelry exchange
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| Shit for brains I’m confused in this thang
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| Fuck u and ya mans
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| Stay true with my aim
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| He’s no killer
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| Their posse’s on broadway doing death drops
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| I would play collecting red tops
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| Shortcuts through open lots
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| South Jamaica cop killer Queens
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| No shirt slapboxing in the street
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| I am who I seek
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| Delusion draw the line between facts and belief
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| Mathematic supreme
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| For niggas who walk with a toothbrush keeping their white kicks clean
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| Team Elohim
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| Coke dreaming
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| Black powers for Black men I been reading
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| Caught a body east of Eden
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| Still breathing, keep squeezing
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| Dozed off in something sleek on the Major Deegan
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| Laser on a paper tray a cover smothers sheet and it’s gone
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| Copies in the office personal use like the weed in the jar
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| I’m a god I’m a wolf and a pig and a dog
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| It’s the weight of the world that made me strong
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| Con a game lose sight which way is the wrong
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| Turnaround still frames each head is a song
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| I’m a god I’m a wolf and a pig and a dog
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| It’s the weight of the world that made me strong |