| I’d like to give all praises to the universal father
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| KnowI’msayin'?
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| I’d like to send a prayer for out there
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| For all them thug angels, you know?
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| I’d like to give a prayer for all those that’s strugglin', you know?
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| Askin' the Lord to have the holy angels watch over them
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| (Hell Razah:)
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| Grandma seventy-seven, she told me Hell we headin'
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| So she have conversations with Heaven
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| Grandaddy still love the caddies, how the young girls keep him happy
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| Even though he married he nasty
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| But he fight to keep the family tight
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| Make sure there mortgage is paid, there’s food, clothes, phones and lights
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| Up North he got a daughter that’s alone at night
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| She fell in love with the modern day New York City life
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| Forty-one, workin' two jobs for money to come
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| Got a daughter sixteen and a son twenty-one
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| Tried to school 'em how the streets love to swallow the young
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| She tried to keep him out the streets but he followed the gun
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| He got two felonies and a baby that’s one
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| And ain’t nobody gunshots ain’t makin' him run
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| On the low his man hittin' his sister
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| Meanwhile, she got a cat back on Riker’s Isle sendin' 'em pictures
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| Tattoos on her back and she hang with strippers
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| Gettin' paid, young age on the stage with liquor
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| Got a crush for them Escalades and laid with killas
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| That’s why Grandma prayin' that the Lord forgive us
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| (Chorus x2: Hell Razah w/ samples cut and scratched, sometimes in different
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| order)
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| A family that pray together, stay together
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| «The family must»
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| «My fam, got that good stuff at home»
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| «Y'all amongst the original»
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| (Hell Razah:)
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| This for the babies that’s eight years old
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| And ain’t been told, why people in the blindfold robbin' their own
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| Mommy worked hard buyin' her clothes, she cry in her soul
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| Cause pops got a habit of that coke in his nose
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| And he background, James Brown, King Heroin
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| Forty-five record spins 'til his song settled in Back then we was proud to be young black men
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| 'Til the streets got us trapped in sellin' Aspirin
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| Helpin' out on the backrent, telephone bills
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| It was eatin' leftovers, ain’t no microwave meals
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| Still pops made it possible for the Big Wheel
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| Picture Good Times, was filmed in the hood of the 'Ville
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| When the C.I.A. |
| plan got Malcolm X killed
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| Was a conspiracy they could’ve revealed
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| The Farrahkhan could make a Million Man March, let the revolution start
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| For the families prayin' apart with broken hearts
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| And the slaves that was thrown to the sharks for bein' smart
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| Out the dark come The Renaissance Child with ancient arts
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| Everybody hold hands and bow heads…
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| (Chorus x2: samples cut several times more after hook finishes) |