| Swear it seem like yesterday
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| I was eatin' ramen noodles off a plastic plate
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| I was really, but anyway
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| Judge just gave my brother Dreek 5 years today
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| Hurt to see his teared-up face
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| 'Cause I gotta feel it play
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| Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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| Damn, the streets need me (Me)
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| My son need me more (More)
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| Gotta give it all I got (I got)
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| I ain’t have no other choice (I ain’t have no other choice)
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| Tryna make it to the top
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| We from the bottom, we was poor
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| I need some more (I need some more)
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| I need some more, yeah (I need some more, yeah)
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| Derez De’Shon
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| I was cursed and I was gifted at the same time
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| I was hurt and I was injured but I stayed down
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| Fourth quarter, two minutes, I can’t waste time
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| Niggas dyin' before 2040, my white lie
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| 'Cause I gotta be here for my son and daughters
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| Don’t ever want them to go through what I been through, hard times that scarred
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| me
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| Reminiscing when times was harder
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| We ain’t have no light in the 'partments
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| Just a baby, was boilin' water
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| Long as the kids ate, I was fine with starvin'
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| Do you know the feeling when your mama askin' you to help with the bills?
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| But you can’t help for real
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| But you still get what you give
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| I got partners locked up doin' bids
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| Some doin' life and some got a few years
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| Can’t go to visit, it hurt just to see 'em
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| I’ll do all I can 'til they free 'em
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| Damn, the streets need me (Me)
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| My son need me more (More)
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| Gotta give it all I got (I got)
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| I ain’t have no other choice (I ain’t have no other choice)
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| Tryna make it to the top
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| We from the bottom, we was poor
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| I need some more (I need some more)
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| I need some more, yeah (I need some more, yeah)
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| I said the streets need me (They need me)
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| My son need me more (Me more)
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| Gotta give it all I got (I got)
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| I ain’t have no other choice (No choice)
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| Tryna make it to the top
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| We from the bottom, we was poor
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| I need some more (More)
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| I need some more, yeah
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| I got my money the harder way
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| Baby mama tryna take my lil' boy away
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| Man, you know what it was when you went this way
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| I got too many problems, I’m savin' face
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| I got too many lawyers for random cases
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| I’m addicted to lean, I been buyin' cases
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| I been goin' too hard, got these niggas hatin'
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| Bought a brand new AP, got a friend wan' date me
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| I keep fuckin' with her, I guess I can’t shake it
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| I’ll be goddamn wildin' when these niggas take me
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| Keep it real even though I know they was fakin'
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| Hold they nuts on me, they didn’t want me to make it
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| Keep them young niggas with me, they still be takin'
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| Thankin' God that he bettered my situation
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| I can’t wait to pull up and see nigga’s faces
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| I can’t go back to the basics
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| The streets need me (Me)
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| My son need me more (More)
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| Gotta give it all I got (I got)
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| I ain’t have no other choice (I ain’t have no other choice)
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| Tryna make it to the top
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| We from the bottom, we was poor
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| I need some more (I need some more)
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| I need some more, yeah (I need some more, yeah)
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| I said the streets need me (They need me)
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| My son need me more (Me more)
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| Gotta give it all I got (I got)
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| I ain’t have no other choice (No choice)
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| Tryna make it to the top
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| We from the bottom, we was poor
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| I need some more (More)
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| I need some more, yeah, yeah
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| Said the streets need me
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| Said the streets need me
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| From the bottom, we was poor, I need some more
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| I need some more, yeah
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| I said the streets need me
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| Said the streets need me
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| Top, bottom, we was poor
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| I need some more, yeah, yeah |