| Now I seen obscene times before this hip-hop game came
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| Like the cops that checked me, left me in mate
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| To a system where Gingerbread Men are to overbake
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| Put to work in the dirt for a buck and quarter a day
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| Choppin' down trees for the next prison that’s made
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| And separate us from slaves for thirty dollars in pay
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| The jailer got a tailor and an F250
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| Standin' on Dirty Acres feelin' goddamn filthy
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| Natti stands for his, suckers crawl for others
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| Understand the biz, I suffocate undercovers
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| Cause somebody gets paid, our lemons are simply beginnings
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| My sweat been the sugar in some cracker’s lemonade
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| Got my brother in Baghdad, hands clenchin' grenades
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| While we hustle like house niggas, try’na buy chains
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| Back asswards for try’na buy change
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| I’mma walk through the Valley and rally through my pains, nigga
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| I’mma wear your confederate flag and be a rebel
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| Burn this witch down, Gretel with heavy metal
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| Cancelled, for pissin' on our hopes and esteems
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| Since I’s a youth seen it, seen it like they broke in my dreams
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| Weave it together, I need all the yarn you can swing
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| From filthy farms we learned about what type alarm you can ring
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| Are you gon' listen? |
| It seems the only sense you got is vision
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| And since we shed our senses now the sense is steady slippin'
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| And since we stopped our youth from prayin' senselessness is livid
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| And the rich don’t really give a fuck cause they don’t gotta live it
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| I see hard livin' e’ryday, you never payed a visit
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| To ya’ll the 'hood's a museum, in truth we just exhibits
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| In truth we just some digits, a means to an end
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| By any means from our KY we gon' win
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| Since ya’ll won’t listen, I oughta use fists in place of my pen
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| So then maybe all this shit’ll sink in
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| Dwell in the Valley of Death, fell in the pits it holds
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| Been to the mountain top where streets are paved in gold
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| But I know «Only God can put out our flame, until then we gon' face our pain»
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| And I know «Only God can put out our flame
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| Until then we gon' stake our claim, on these Dirty Acres» |