| Eighteen wearing blue jeans, a snap-back mesh
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| Clean fade under the cap, his shoes box-fresh
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| Smoking on a blunt head, eyes red high as kite
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| Comes out mainly at night, sells green brown and white
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| Police pull him over, try and test his composure
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| It holds up like a dude that’s older, a soldier
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| He learned from them older dudes behind bars
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| Who flossed with fine cars, jewellery and bitches on their arm
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| Taking pictures like no harm would ever come to these Gods
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| They see that people get caught, but think they can beat the odds
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| They crazy, but back to Mr Man, palm tight-fisted hand
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| In a stairwell for 15 seconds, Instagram
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| Snapped by them Undercovers? |
| Tapped by them other Brothers?
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| Nah, he ain’t on they radar, mind like a razor
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| You can’t feel his activity, he’s screen saver
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| His attitude is you are only what the streets make ya'
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| Danger around every corner
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| Where the strangers call him on his cell phone
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| Talkin' bout they short a couple bucks, can I pay a little later?
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| Can I get it from my neighbour? |
| Can I pay you with some labour?
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| Why won’t you do me this favour? |
| I am a loyal customer
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| But they are only loyal to the drugs not the hustler
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| Defiant to his Moms and reliant on his charm
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| So a giant stack of money’s what he’s holding in his palm
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| One day he sat and listened to Minister Farrakhan
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| From the Nation of Islam quoting from the Bible Psalms
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| Chapter eighty-two, verse six opened his eyes
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| You are Gods; |
| and all of you are children of the Most High
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| He thought about it, but stuck with the same old
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| Just because he used to wear silver, but now his chain’s gold
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| And he chose to walk this road
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| He’s prepared to reap all the harvest from the seeds he sowed, word
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| Yeah, uh, uh, uh, uh
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| Yeah, uh, uh, yeah, uh, uh…
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| Couch-surfing in his Nike TN’s
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| Watching James Bond classics, Bank Holiday Weekend
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| He’s waiting for the contraband re-up
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| Relies on his supplier to hire the clientele
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| And make the high higher
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| No sign for him to retire, his bank balance on fire
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| He’s inspired by Avon Barksdale from The Wire
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| A criminal, a crook, a felon, a law-breaker
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| A get high maker, OD and a life taker
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| It’s time for the wake up call
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| An opportunity presents itself to take up all of the community
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| He gotta put his stake up tall, there’s no impunity
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| The big one and if he get caught, there’s no immunity
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| He steps back to think about it
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| Second thoughts and he’s doubting
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| That he can get away without prison and overcrowding
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| 23-hour lock-down with a cell mate who got the runs
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| Pants drop-down
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| Peeling Oranges to hide a stench without a window
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| Inmates looking for ass, acting like flamingo’s
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| Waiting for some new meat so they can do they inside out thing
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| They wolf whistle, blow kisses, voguing and pouting
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| The guards acquiesce, dispensing with no less
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| Than a punch in the chest in the shower when fully dressed
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| This ain’t the kinda future he looking for
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| Some changes will need to be implemented before it gets dangerous
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| Cos turning your life around from carrying a knife around
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| Selling dope and killing your people
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| Ain’t nothing hype about kids born addicted
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| Being weaned off from morphine
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| Little Brothers acting like the older ones at fourteen
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| Survival, they thinking they invincible like Michael
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| But even Michael was a victim to the vicious cycle
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| Streets are bone idle, suicidal, homicidal
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| When you play yourself like one of the disciples, Judas |