| Watching the world through a pair of broken eyeglasses
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| I hope that what I see is only make-believe
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| Watching the world through a pair of broken eyeglasses
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| I watch the cats watch the mice
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| Hit the weed 'til both legs fell asleep
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| I’m not really there, fuck you gon' tell me?
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| High and out of it, admittedly its own form of cowardice
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| But yo, at six afro pick with the black power fist
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| Corduroys and a turtleneck, I could’ve took your (unnecessary)
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| Thirteen with the Malcom X hat, come on, man
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| I invented bein' black, my skin was matte
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| Carte blanche, I skipped the daps
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| To-do list pristine, once your name on the list, the light’s green
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| Peeled out the impounded Christine
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| I remember when whites used to come to the hood
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| Ask random black strangers for drugs
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| Shrug, wistful look in the eye, blinkin' hard
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| Like those was the days, blood
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| Outside agitator, I get your natives worked up
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| Women shimmin' out they burqas turnt up
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| Sons turnt gay, dad like what the fuck?
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| I don’t want trouble mister, I’m just tryna turn a buck
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| And it’s sundown out by sun up
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| This why I pack light, bag of tricks tied up tight
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| Bindle on a stick, flophouse flea bit
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| Still sleepin', daytime’s for twits
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| While I was getting jumped, kept track of who got which licks
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| Stop, stop hittin' him
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| That’s mean
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| Yeah
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| I was supposed to stop drinkin' this month
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| Ain’t seen a break since Tiger’s last fist pump
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| My clothes is feelin' tight like a kid’s bunk
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| Bed, I’ma dress like Alvin and the Chipmunks
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| A long ass gown and red snapback
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| I’m lookin' all abstract and half Bohemian
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| The divine geometry of an afro’s median
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| And other shit I retrofit meanings for later
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| This hat for instance I found in a meteor crater
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| I was teachin' my kid how Ben Franklin made kites fly
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| Saw a bright white light appear in the night sky
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| My son’s gonna feel free to be as weird as a white guy
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| But probably won’t have the wealth to farm cucumbers
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| But probably by that time you can farm through Tumblr
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| Like, on the website you could, like grow shit right there
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| Listen
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| I’m so ebbed into stylin' that’s wilder than cold lampin'
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| While it’s Flava Flav ain’t behave like no trampin'
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| Holdin' hate talkin' Golden State ain’t no champin' (Trash)
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| Hood people talkin' good we gon' go campin' (I'm good)
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| All the unseen and in my case sun gleamin'
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| Vex spinnin' the ex intended for puns meanin'
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| Phonics on some black as Onyx word to Sonny Seeza
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| Lookin' down the barrel of life like gun' cleanin'
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| On some ready to shoot jack, I’m through the night
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| Booky and dodgin' heavy pursuit crack a move gets tight
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| Order stop, call the cops when they lack reason
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| And other than when a brother offends for black breathin'
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| As I hope for better options, but stay with my Listerine
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| And keep it Otis Redding, Dock of the Bay type whistle cleanin'
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| It could make you wanna kill a man
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| If I’m real bein' shit’s demeanin'
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| Ya think you know what I’m meanin'? |