| Sons, get sedan DeVilles, soon as they can reach the wheel
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| And daughters, get diamonds the size of their age — I’m talkin'
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| One year get one carat, two years get two carats
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| Three years get three carats, and so on into marriage
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| Nobody livin average, everybody jang-a-lang
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| Nobody livin savage, e’rybody got change
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| Even the paperboy deliver out the back of a Range
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| It’s not a game, it’s a beautiful thang
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| Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gunplay
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| Ain’t nobody shot, so ain’t no news that day
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| Ain’t nobody snitchin, they refuse to say
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| Every month — we take a vote on what the weather should be
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| And if we vote it rains — know how wet we want it to be
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| And if we vote it snow — know how deep we want it to get
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| But the sun gon' shine 99 percent, in Nellyville
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| There’s no. |
| way. |
| I. I could explaiiiiin.
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| The way I feel right now
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| There’s no. |
| way. |
| I. I could explaiiiiin.
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| The way I feel about livin in Nellyville
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| I got that good at e’ry gas station, pull on up
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| Give me a half a ounce of that shit, fill it up
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| We got straws for the bottles, outlaw the cups
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| And we gon' make it happen, ain’t no need for no luck
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| Ain’t no lotteries, no pick 3's or pick 2's
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| Keep the money in your family, gamble amongst your crew
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| Cause the dice gon' do what the dice gon' do
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| And if you take a life, you gon' lose yours too
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| Ain’t no trials, it’s automatic, you drop 'em right where it happen
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| You do unto others if you don’t want it don’t do the cappin
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| Think that’s cool? |
| 40 acres and a mule
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| Fuck that! |
| Nellyville — 40 acres and a pool
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| Six bedrooms, full bath with a jacuzz'
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| Six-car garage, pavement smooth
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| Both front and back deck 'nough room to land a jet
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| And you ain’t reached the city, that’s just the projects
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| Everybody, uh, now everybody say
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| Well I want to go, please let me go
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| I need to go — down to Nellyville
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| I need to see, what I can see
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| Won’t you and me — go to Nellyville
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| I want to go, so bad
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| I just want to go and look
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| Won’t you please take me on in
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| I just know I gotta be there
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| No unexpectancy, like teenage pregnancy
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| And physical mental attraction your only ecstasy
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| Your own destiny, create your own recipe
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| If you ain’t livin accordin to dirty then you stressin me
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| «And who are you?» |
| Who me? |
| I’m the mayor
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| And any problems you got, I live up thurr
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| «Where's that?» |
| The house on the hill, welcome mat of fur
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| When you pass by that thang, be polite and don’t sturr
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| Yeah
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| There’s no. |
| way. |
| yeah
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| There’s no. |
| way. |
| yeah
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| There’s no. |
| way. |
| yeah
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| There’s no. |
| way. |