| And I, started from the, bottom
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| Like a, snowman, ground up
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| Like round chuck, still put hands on you
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| Staying wound up is how I spend time
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| Sucker free, confidence high
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| Such a breeze when I pin rhymes
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| I just got the air about me
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| Like wind chimes (yeah)
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| Another day in the life (uh)
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| Used to have to scrape to get by (yeah)
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| Now my community is gated
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| And I made it, and my neighbors say hi (say hi)
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| I’m giving them pounds, I’m upscale now
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| Guess it means I’m way in the sky
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| But I still remember the days of, minimal wage for
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| General labor, welfare recipients is a minor
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| Look at how government assistance has made ya
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| Adversity, if at first if you don’t succeed
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| Put your temper to more use 'cause being broke is a poor excuse
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| That shit only gives you more fuel
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| Show them why you’re you
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| So close, God, it’s like I almost got it
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| But close only counts in timebombs and horseshoes
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| So I uni-bomb shit (tick, tick, tick)
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| No remorse
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| Screw it, I’m lit, and that attitude I blew up on quick
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| That’s why they call me firecracker
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| I grew up on wick (wick, wick, wick) with a short fuse
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| I got some important news to report to
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| Anyone who thought I was done, nah, bitch, not quite
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| Spotlight’s back on, got my faith, where’s yours?
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| Do you still believe
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| In me?
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| Didn’t I get everything I had to give you to make you see?
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| I never forget if you turn your back on me
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| Now and walk out I will never let you live it down
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| (I never quit) Do you still believe?
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| In me?
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| Man I know sometimes these thoughts can be harsh and cold as ice
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| To me, there’s just ink blots
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| I just fling them like slingshots, and so precise
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| So you might want to think it over twice
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| When you retards can roll the dice
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| But beef will at least cost you your career
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| 'Cause even my cheap shots are overpriced
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| But this middle finger is free as a bird
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| New warhead-ed birth, you just forehead-ed on earth
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| Too short for a verse, studied his formula
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| Learned how to incorporate a curse
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| Point it towards corporate America
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| Stick a fork in it and turn
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| 'Cause four-letter words are more better
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| Heard the world force-fed a turd to me
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| You’re getting yours
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| But sometimes I overdo it
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| But I just get so into it
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| I was there consoling you when no one knew it
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| When your situation showed no improvement
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| I was that door, you walked over to it
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| I’m the light at the end of tunnel so people are
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| always looking at me as they’re going through it
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| When that tunnel vision is unclear, shit becomes too much to bear
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| Since «Cleaning Out My Closet» when
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| I was having trouble with the snare
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| I’m that unrealistic prayer answered
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| And I’ma get you jacked up,
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| like you’re trying to fix a flat (uh), when you struggle with a spare
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| That double fisted bear,
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| knuckles coupled with this pair of nuts I’m cupping
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| I am your fucking switch, nothing can compare
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| Do you still believe
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| In me?
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| Didn’t I get everything I had to give you to make you see?
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| I never forget if you turn your back on me
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| Now and walk out I will never let you live it down
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| (I never quit) Do you still believe?
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| In me?
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| Started from the bottom like a snowman
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| Oh man, put that in your corncob pipe and smoke that
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| But my battery’s low
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| I’m gonna need a booster in my pack
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| I know I always got Proof on my back
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| I called you a groupie 'cause I knew for a fact
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| My insulin ho
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| Homie I’m calling on you 'cause I think
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| I’m slowly startin' to lose faith in it, so
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| Give me that quick mota.
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| Motivation to go, Hussein with the flow
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| Fake fans with the two-faced that show
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| Let heartbeats loot, produce hate in my soul
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| Laying vocals two days in a row
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| True statement, hate to go down this road
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| But there’s only one route to cross this bridge
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| So I walk in this bitch with loose chains
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| 'Cause all my dues paid
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| But this booth is taking its toll
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| But it’s never too late to start a new beginning
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| That goes for you too
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| So what the fuck are you gonna do, use the tools you’re given?
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| Or are you going to use the cards you were
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| dealt as an excuse for you to not do shit with them
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| I used to play the loser victim
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| Until I saw the way Proof was driven
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| I found my vehicle and I haven’t ran out of gas yet
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| And when they stacked decks, turn handicaps into assets
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| Fanny packs, hourglasses
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| If time was still on my side, I’d still have none to waste
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| Man, in my younger days, that dream was so much fun to chase
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| It’s like I ran in place while this shit dangled in front of my face
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| But how do you keep up the pace and
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| the hunger pangs once you’ve won the race
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| When that pool of exhaust is cooling off
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| 'Cause you don’t got nothing left to prove at all
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| 'Cause you done already hit them with the coup de grâce
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| Still you feel the need
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| To go through and deal with that Bruce Willis
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| That blue steel, that truth still
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| When that wheel’s loose, I won’t lose will
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| Do you still believe? |