| Yeah
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| This what it felt like, when I grew up in New York
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| Mike Cash, what up?
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| I want my kids to grow up in a all black neighborhood
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| Meanin' that nobody’s in the red and the paper’s good
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| Next to doctors, lawyers, the coach for the Hoyas
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| Maybe stockholders from Goya
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| The block’ll destroy ya', so revolve in the morgue
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| But haters wanna see me with revolvers at my door
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| Use the same revolvin' door that Clark Kent used
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| A connoisseur, mostly Clark Kent shoes
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| Still abide by the park bench rules
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| 'Cause hoes’ll put you on the bench unless you park sum’n cool
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| Only a fool doesn’t learn from they daddy lessons
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| And turn them shits into caddy
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| And dissolved apprehension was the app that I used
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| What I put on the map will more than likely be removed
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| Well I know you been confused about the future gettin' better
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| If you don’t sound like Future, you get future endeavors
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| Well I’m back to the future and the view is gettin' better
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| And now, the reviews are gettin' better
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| Yeah, just ask Rolling Stone
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| You either rollin' or you stoned if you think I ain’t in the zone
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| So I’m with my kids home in a all black neighborhood
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| Maybe down the block from Meagan Good
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| But you better make sure that that paper’s good
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| 'Cause every good girl wants a man to take her out the hood
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| So she can sing like
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| And we can sing like
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Let’s go
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah, yeah, black unity, black unity
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| I’m from the era of kangaroos and Max Juliens
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| I attended the public school in Starter coats
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| Swag jewelry, nothin' we never saw before
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| Cash rulin' me, listenin' to nothin' but Harlem notes
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| Carla gave me your number, I can’t call her though
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| My phone off at the crib, I feel sorry for
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| Those who out here who livin' who hate to live
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| Old people told me that this is not the place that you should raise your kids
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| (What you tell 'em?)
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| I said, «When I was a kid, shit, I was raised here»
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| Black neighborhood, carryin' this lady groceries
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| I’m walkin' but watchin' closely, I wish a hater would
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| Stories get told, lookin' at cold, empty courts
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| And torn hangin' nets
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| Where hoop dreams get deflated
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| And ain’t no place like home
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| The only place you can go to stay and check, check
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| To that neighborhood
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| Community leaders bringin' gangs together for momentary moments of peace
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| Long as you know it’s for that greater good
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| Black unity and black neighborhood
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| I just left from the barbecue, I just ate, I’m full
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| And now I’m ridin' around searchin' for Meagan Good
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| And she ain’t turnin' me down because my paper good
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| Every girl around the way just tryna make it out the hood
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| So she can sing like
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| And we can sing like
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Yeah
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| La-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Let’s go
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la |