| It’s war out here, mad niggas is dyin'
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| You don’t want that shit to be you, right?
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| «Nah»
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| I know you gon' hold it down, though, you know mean?
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| These niggas out here ain’t really worth it
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| «You a ill nigga, though, I like your style»
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| Look
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| Nights at the telly I’m plottin' up on my next check
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| Flowin' the sickest, I just took that shit off a bed rest
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| Vibin' out while the old Jigga bumpin' outta my headset
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| I know these niggas wondering who gon' become the vet' next
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| Name a, sicker nigga from the ghetto, I rise
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| Pick out the blind to see them niggas bustin' metals outside
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| Stretchin' on pies, bet I’mma rise
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| It was hard to see the light but we had our eyes set on the prize
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| Granny prayin' 'cause we livin' in sin
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| A real boss put his niggas in the position to win
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| But it was tough, the conditions we in
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| Not from the riches and glitz
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| Either movin' them bricks tryna put food in the fridge
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| Or you strippin', bet she takin' any option for the money, nigga
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| Hit the pole she pick it up and drop it like a clumsy nigga
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| Or you on the field tryna make it to the league
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| Or you workin' 9-to-5 tryna make a lil' green
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| Paint a picture when your pops gettin' set up in traffic
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| Your mama only piece of mind is in the medicine cabinet
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| The way the system set up is tragic
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| So it’s good to see my brother in a cap and gown instead of a casket
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| Was a set up that happened, the get I bread up is habit
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| 'cause the crackers try to tell us that we never would have it
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| It was hard, we were fed up with lackin', never settle for average
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| I’m thinkin' when I lay my head on the mattress
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| Bein' broke gave me a different vibe, name a chick as sick as I
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| These rappers spittin' lies, these bitches know they couldn’t go head-to-head;
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| I’m a different height
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| Yeah I need a Arizona and a trip to Chi'
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| It’s Buffalo, New York
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| Front porch, gettin' high as the murder rate
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| Gun shuts couple houses down where they serve the 'yay
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| Granny in church they sayin' we gotta learn how to pray
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| There’s a young soul leavin' this Earth today
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| These young girls givin' it up, to these niggas with bad intentions
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| They schemin' for pussy, they ain’t lookin' for daddy’s blessin'
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| He GPS to her house but these boys lackin' direction
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| They’re gettin' raised in the system and get harassed and arrested
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| This the, Empire state, the finer state ain’t got no time to waste
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| Supplyin' weight ain’t the only way to acquire cake
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| But he see these niggas with chains so he gon' find a way
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| What you expect when you throwin' food at a lion’s gate?
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| He never had a chance; |
| both his parents up in the pen'
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| He workin' a 9-to-5 but embarrassed to tell his friends
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| He converted to the streets but got caught carryin' a Uzi
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| Went to jail as a Christian came out wearin' a kufi
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| I got a, pocket full of dreams, how can I achieve?
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| Fuck the fame, I’m just tryna bring profit for the team
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| Never actin' off emotions; |
| usin' logic when I speak
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| It’s real you can hear my stomach growlin' when I speak
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| Mobbin' with the team, climbin' for the dream
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| We not stoppin; |
| pops was a rollin' stone, couldn’t hold his own
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| Time is underrated, man, I can remember days
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| House party at the crib we just wanna be kids and play
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| Kids chasin' dice game in the street
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| Niggas sell you a dream but the price change now is cheap
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| Nights came waitin', my life changed in a blink
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| Crime rate on a steep, mind frame on defeat
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| Nowadays these bitches ain’t got no privacy with it
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| Get the cake, I play with numbers like a lottery ticket
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| As a kid my pops told me a valuable old lesson
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| He told me the dream free but the hustle is sold separate, yeah |