| Lo sweater, Timberlands, Kani jeans
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| Ain’t too far from that shit had my Starter jacket dry cleaned
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| Used to buy green from Rita’s mother Eileen
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| I can still see the summer we discovered rhyme schemes
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| Nineteen ninety something here’s how I would function
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| I would run in Pergament boosting paint by the dozen
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| Driving drunk and high inside my mother’s ride
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| Son if I keep living like this somebody’s gonna die
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| Attitude was act the fool if I summarized
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| Like come and try I’ll punch you in your fucking eye
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| Knuckles fly if you shuck and hive or fakes jacks
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| Since way back days at Cap Marotta’s with an ADAT
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| Digi 8 track before dreams of mass appeal
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| Boss jeans Krylon moss green classic feel
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| Smacked the grill on my first car burning rubber
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| Word to mother rolling weed on my Nocturnal cover
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| Yeah that’s why it goes like this
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| Getting live at the shows like this
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| Yeah that’s why we roll like thi
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| Hold up light up what you rolled right quick
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| Yeah I’m getting dough like this
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| To inspire folks that are broke like this
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| Before the shows and the hoes on the road
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| What you know the story’s told like this
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| Pay phones secret codes using pagers
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| Sunday night the party stalled Marley Marl Future Flavas
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| My crew was major beef now we’ll stay and fight
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| My homie Chris Snots made me freestyle it changed my life
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| Late at night mall parking lot sparking pot
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| And sipping brew battled different crews at the barber shop
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| On the block with contraband saw cops and ran
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| Sold dimes but only owed five when I’m copping grams
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| Hydroponic plants before these exotic strands
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| Or holograms of Pac watched him in Juice with Thomas Sams
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| Was the man with that red and black lumberjack
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| Big had on Juicy even though my hat doesn’t match
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| Memory lane now it’s all coming back
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| That Thundercat line I said made the party fucking snap
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| Rapped to beats on vinyl trying to be your idol
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| Street disciple nine six Source magazine’s the Bible
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| Yeah that’s why it goes like this
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| Getting live at the shows like this
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| Yeah that’s why we roll like thi
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| Hold up light up what you rolled right quick
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| Yeah I’m getting dough like this
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| To inspire folks that are broke like this
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| Before the shows and the hoes on the road
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| What you know the story’s told like this
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| East and west rivaled New York proud to rep it
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| Jansport backpack boosting shit from Tower Records
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| Wild and reckless driven like the Dukes of Hazard
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| 10th grade flooded my whole school with 'shrooms and acid
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| Stupid bastard smoke buddha two and pass it
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| Bumping Jerky Boys Sol Rosenberg shoes and glasses
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| Method Man Bring the Pain was a Wu Fanatic
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| Rumor has it Sean’s sticking dick to this junior Janet
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| Pop’s blew a gasket first time I got arrested
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| Not the second he was way cooler than I expected
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| Rocking fresh shit Tommy Hil and Nautica
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| Malt liquor got me real sloppy still I’d talk slicker
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| My boy Victor had a kicker box shit would knock
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| His system got stolen with his rims up on cinderblocks
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| Hiphop was a god send for our friends
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| Was on when I made my first beat ASR 10
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| Yeah that’s why it goes like this
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| Getting live at the shows like this
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| Yeah that’s why we roll like thi
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| Hold up light up what you rolled right quick
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| Yeah I’m getting dough like this
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| To inspire folks that are broke like this
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| Before the shows and the hoes on the road
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| What you know the story’s told like this |