| Ayo, I never claimed to be hard, tough, no homo, gangsta none of the above
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| Just a kid from 145th and Lennox Ave
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| Harlem, USA trying to make his way in the world ya heard?
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| Ya know through the trial of tribulations that life brings
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| I lost some friends, incarcerated, some are gone forever
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| Ya know you cant expect everything from everybody
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| So get up get out and get somethin, thats what I did
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| Before I had the hammer cocked
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| A Santana rock
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| Little Gerv, Grandpa Jerry, Grandma Doc (thats my fam)
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| Uncle Carl, Uncle Ted, Uncle Steve, Uncle Bill,
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| Cousin Steve, Cousin Bill up on the hill now
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| My Aunt Normy, I don’t speak to my Aunt Deita
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| Or my Cousin Bashiba, love my Mother Fredricka
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| Neighbour Freida, daughter Raven and Nika
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| Down another doorbell was that nigga Warden Nell
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| He gave birth to the best emcee you never heard
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| Lever after lever and was clever with whatever word
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| Derek Armstead, Bloodshed from C.O.C
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| He did damage, road managed my G.O.D
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| Aka Duke Da God, he was stupid hard
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| 16, the bitch dream had stupid cars
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| Cut the '68, hooptie '75
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| Still drives some bullshit, I don’t know why
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| I loved the nigga though, for him put cris in the air
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| First one that diss him in here, I swear I’ll risk my career
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| Thats a fact they ain’t talking no rap shit
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| I’m talking that mack clip, niggas will backflip, act sick
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| My dude study the sabbath
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| No beef, veggie nigga, maybe some catfish
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| He could have my house, he could keep my mauries
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| He could drive my cars, this a eastside story
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| (Thats why my dudes love me I let them do them.
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| You either gonna be rich or famous fuckin wit me, probably both.
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| If you happen to brush shoulders wit me by accident,
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| play lotto, nine out of ten times you gonna win nigga.)
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| To play the game, sure to win
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| I sacrificed, I rolled the dice
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| I love the hood, I love my life
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| See a boss I prepared to be
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| When I walk away from a confrontation I ain’t scared of you I’m scared of me
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| I got a gun, you don’t so it flares you’ll see
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| After that a 5,000 volt chair for me
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| So I move carefully, niggas don’t care for me
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| Who care I don’t, you share I wont
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| Calm down (uhuh) breathe again
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| I don’t do extortion unless I wanna recieve an end
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| Talk to my money, first time I heard her speak (what she say)
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| Thats word to me, told me I deserve to eat (what happened)
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| Moved to a killa ave, right from a murder street (what you did)
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| Rocked adida forms even though they hurt my feet (thats fucked up)
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| I don’t look in the sky, never mind stars
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| You also find stars, right behind bars
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| Snazz, Black, Do' on house arrest
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| Zeke, shiek, wont even throw out the rest
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| They wanted my ass right alongside zeke
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| Turn myself in, nope play hide and go seek
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| I’m gone, put the clip in the chrome
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| Yeah I’m just like a fly, see the shit that I’m on
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| And, hour after hour I would chill at the afterhours
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| Where they flash the power, no bath or shower
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| In that same spot, realize math is power
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| So I pointed the mansion, that is ours |