| Verse 1: Dray
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| Well yo, they used to say that Dray was a motherfuckin bum
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| Cos when it came to profit, son I really wasn’t gettin none
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| The wilest motherfucker that you ever saw
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| They used to call me Petey Wheezthrow, the devil’s son-in-law
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| Now I’m in the shit, like a fly I was buggin
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| From robbin to stealin to dealin, yo, and even muggin
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| Sellin cocaine in the high school halls
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| Playin it slick I kept the balms up in some tennis balls
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| I used to run across the bridge with my peeps
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| I packed a tray-8, in dem days I was playin for keeps
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| I used to roll around my hat and all day
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| lookin for a prey that we could rob on Broadway
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| Stickin niggas for their jewels if they’re worthy
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| Made a couple of hits and then we jetted back to Jersey
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| '86 and '87 was the year
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| had the Gucci hat, rock the rac-coon fur coat yeah
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| Keep em in disguise and nigga don’t ya blink
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| See yeah Saturday, we robbed another nigga at the rink
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| The beats was always showin up at my rest
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| askin Does a certain Drayzie live at this address? |
| Yes?
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| The spot was hotter than the sun, without a doubt
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| I had the choice to go to school and get the fuck out!
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| I hit the South just like a bandit cos I was stranded
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| Virginia State in '88, you know that’s where I landed
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| I couldn’t stand it, shit was feelin strange
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| I made it outta range but yo, my shit was just about the dough
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| Aiyo, niggas just can’t have nuttin (Yo niggas just can’t have nuttin)
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin (niggas just can’t have nuttin)
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin (niggas just can’t have nuttin)
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin (Nowadays yo)
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| Verse 2: Skoob
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| Yo bust a move, peep the flav
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| cos I’ma take you back to the days of brown envelope trays
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| Twenty-something years ago as I proceed to recollect
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| a newborn shorty had to 'ford cheques off Bushwick
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| Bless the days, Pops shot to get forth the *?vock?* and fifth
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| Damn, fam got to shift
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| from the tenth flo’down four flights to the sixth
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| This was around the time smokin reefer was the shit
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| But now the crib a little bigger
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| I was the first man in the fam so it’s plans for a nigga
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| Had my clan from my building and my man from 8−11
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| wit me when we hit the jams behind 2−57
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| Mom’s babysittin, Pop’s on the hustle
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| 54 block was on lock, bust a knuckle
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| Game rip, some niggas slipped and got greedy
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| Believe me, another rest in peace in graffitti
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| But I couldn’t resist a few fights and petty heists
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| cos now I’m 'cross town in the Heights
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| My nights are a little quieter but still amongst the schemes for the fun
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| Where sons run guns and blow slums with the dums
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| And motherfuckers don’t care
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| I love the street game so I stashed the green leaf by the air
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| You couldn’t tell me shit, evil was more eager than a beaver
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| Kept it fresh, double-parked in the Caesar
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| but I got deceased with this behaviour-type flavor
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| and do Moms a favour, go to school and get this fuckin paper
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| So what’s the caper cos now I’m all in at Virginia State, now let the bullshit begin
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| Nowadays niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(Yo niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin’yo)
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin’yo)
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(nuttin', nuttin', nuttin', nuttin')
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| Nowadays niggas (niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Verse 3: Dray, Skoob
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| It was '89 and yo, I’m stayin out of fights
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| I’m runnin with this nigga named Books from Crown Heights
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| Gettin toe-up from the flow-up, we’re drinkin til we throw up We’re thinkin we can blow up so to class we wouldn’t show up Well nigga so what? |
| You fucked the holdup and went whatevers
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| then bucked the leathers, son I got to get my shit together
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| Gettin drunk, gettin flunked in class is what’s the function
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| Smokin blunts-in, son we need to stop frontin
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| We’re goin huntin, Virginia didn’t have shit for us That’s why we broke out with Dice and blitzed into blue chorus |
| Gettin busy, flippin rhymes on the weekend
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| The deal we was seekin from styles we was freakin
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| But yo, now it’s '91 and me and son we got to scram
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| (Aiyo it was a rap contest, nuttin we couldn’t handle)
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| And yo, something got ta happen or I’ma get tha pappin
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| We got tha blueprints to this new style of rappin
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| Packin skills from the sewer, I knew we had a shot
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| Gotta go and blow the spot and show them niggas how we rock, what?
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| If PMD is judgin it, yeah the cautious crew
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| makin all that money on that business as usual
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| (Tip tip tip) Tip, we flip the tongue and started wilin
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| They hit us with the digits to the cribs in Long Island
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| so, we packed the Henny and my men we got swayz
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| and never lookin back, that’s how we thinkin nowadays
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| Cos yo niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin’yo)
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| Word up niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Nah niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| (Yo that’s why they got me rockin on the microphone)
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(Yo niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(have nuttin', just nuttin')
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| Nowadays niggas didn’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just can’t have nuttin'(niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| (Well now they got me rockin on the microphone)
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| (Niggas just can’t have nuttin')
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| Niggas just ain’t (got a motherfuckin thing)
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| Nowadays (word up) niggas ain’t got nuthin' |