| A man pays dues, do this become an angel
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| Good and evil, a man stays true
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| There are other ways to win
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| Good and Evil, it’s the same thing
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| A decade after my debut, the game changed; |
| I got the same views
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| To me it’s just baseball and I’m Babe Ruth
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| Bambataa from Planet Rock, trade op commander Hip Hop
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| What? |
| We grimlock smash Spitbox
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| You can never be the best, until you complete the competency test
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| With Rap pattern parameters I set
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| Are you deaf? |
| Do you need me to repeat what I said?
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| I said you’ll never be the best unless you pass this test
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| Okay, fill out registration form 88
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| Name, social, date of birth, address, city and state
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| When the form is complete pass it on to Angela Clark
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| To determine your eligibility and get you insured
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| Every morning the board panel assembly judges man by his bars
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| Courage of heart and what he offers the cause
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| If he’s accepted he’ll be sworn in tomorrow
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| If he’s rejected he’s recycled and retested on stage at the Apollo
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| I had to and so do you, are you solid or hollow?
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| Depression is normal, a challenge to climb out of your sorrow
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| Forget about the world around you, the truth is
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| They are nothing without you but you will be nothing without the truth
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| A man stays true, a man pays dues
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| If a man can do this, the man become an angel
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| There are other ways to win, a consequence for every sin
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| But we are blind because Good and Evil is the same thing
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| Do not be confused by the choice of words used
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| For every battle we win, there’s something we lose
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| But you still have to choose and choosing not to choose is still a choice
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| Sometimes silence is a powerful voice
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| The body is of no use if the mind is enslaved
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| But theses slaves can not bind your light or your sound waves
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| However, we must to train to increase our strength
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| The final test is presented when we least expect
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| We look forward, we see 180 degrees, what’s left?
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| We eyeball right to left but see nothing, what’s next?
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| 180 degrees of regret, what’s that?
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| It’s everything we left behind unchecked, it wants revenge
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| They want revenge against us because we fight for our freedoms
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| Die for what we believe in and they know we don’t need 'em
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| I know you disagree, you think it’s fortune cookie shit
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| But I guarantee you this, our future was prefixed
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| I look towards the sky for the answers to why
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| I analyze the great divide and saw God on both sides
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| God didn’t do this, we did this to each other
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| So keep his name out your mouth, you fucking cock suckers
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| How could you own all of it, when we are all apart of this?
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| The Earth belongs to every living thing that walks upon it
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| We are all perfect creations, with imperfect justifications
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| But just the patient fuck the subject of Satan
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| The Universe is too huge, does Satan live out there too?
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| Or is he just after me and you?
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| Believe what you perceive
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| Look at the Sun, tell what do you see? |
| 360 degrees of light beams
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| Illuminating Hip Hop, Spitboss’ll bag your pops
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| You ain’t ready for the shit that I got
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| It’s called Hip Hop homey, that’s the only way that you know me
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| And knowing people can still be lonely
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| At the Maharaji spa for the whole week
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| I just go to sleep because when I wake up I am not an emcee
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| I get back on the clock when I hear the next beat
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| I’ll write about another century of heat, I’m a beast |