| Verse 1: Akin Yai
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| Cheers here toast to oblivion
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| I wrote a dope rhyme crying hurt by a simian
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| Rice type low, nah I write slow
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| Taking time to bear thoughts too a full moon show
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| Go fresh off tour, still broke a boar
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| Love hip hop though I love life more
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| Board bond full heights, Mars look nice
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| No left turn but damn I can’t merge right
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| My Catcher In the Rye, 916
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| Though all them wanna make art that’s meaningful
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| Scathed in ice, let triple axel well
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| Low with the cokehead chick but the night and yell
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| Help in the morning, I think I’m losing it
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| Bible Belt misery, home is where illusion is
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| Yeah, yeah a nigga losing it
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| Bible Belt misery, home is where illusion is
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| Hook: Akin Yai
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| Ayo BET, MTV (they kill the music)
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| Radio and wannabe thugs (who kill the music)
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| Rap City, TRL (ya'll kill the music)
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| Pipe dream kids on the block (they kill the music)
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| Hold up, wait up, it’s not dead
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| Nuh uh, wait, hold up it’s not dead
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| Yo, hold up, it’s not dead
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| Never, nah, hold up, it’s not dead
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| Verse 2: Akin Yai & Cise Star
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| Akin Yai
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| They like uniform, what happened to the individual?
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| Artists in repertoire are foul tryna pigeon hold
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| Put MCing in the box (box) to see if they can market it
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| Who am I slave to the drums, slang and oxidant
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| That’s word to the highest bidder
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| Now put yours hands up
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| Yeah, yeah, now put them hands up
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| Cise Star
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| Head off the pillow, young warrior never sleeping
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| A new beginning of life’s strife hitting the speaker
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| He walk with the heavy brow Five Percenter on the throne
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| World’s he roamed alone music became his own now
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| He be that golden child homie down (homie down)
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| He be that know me now, writing down his thoughts with that super sound
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| He is a lyricist, come on kick a rhyme again (come on kick a rhyme)
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| People call him witnesses, piano and a violin
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| Violence, nah nigga me is a higher prince
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| Common sense mess with the struggle, just to pay the rent
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| Oh shit, pay for my gas so I can go to class
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| Fix my broken mask, get a job, pay my momma back (what)
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| Sometimes the streets be calling he going (mercy)
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| Businessman with a good job he going (mercy)
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| Look at the little kid he crying he going (mercy)
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| Everybody (mercy) the whole city (mercy)
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| Sometimes the streets be calling he going (mercy)
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| Businessman with a good job he going (mercy)
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| Look at the little kid he crying he going (mercy)
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| Everybody (mercy) the whole city (mercy)
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| Hook: Akin Yai
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| Ayo BET, MTV (they kill the music)
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| Radio and wannabe thugs (who kill the music)
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| Rap City, TRL (ya'll kill the music)
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| Pipe dream kids on the block (they kill the music)
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| Whoa, hold up, wait up, it’s not dead
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| Nuh uh, wait, hold up it’s not dead
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| Yo, hey, hold up, it’s not dead
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