| They double numbers they mamas promoting this here
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| The boys on the court playing basketball (basketball)
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| They baby fathers they rather be boys and that’s all
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| Blays Rd. |
| Stand up! |
| (uh)
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| Pre K Stand Up! |
| (uh)
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| East Coast Stand Up! |
| (uh)
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| You should
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| Come around my way
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| I’m from a place in Harlem
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| Where the streets they look like Africa
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| And the trees are in better condition than the homes so abandoned
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| P S 197
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| Where I study my academic stare run
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| And the books so worn and torn I can’t think
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| How they tried to cripple me Understood the lost side of me Thank god I had a good teacher on the side of me Showed me the right thangs to do Overcame these obstacles
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| Haters stand up for the things that we’ve been through ooh
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| Blays Rd. |
| Stand up! |
| (uh)
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| Pre K Stand Up! |
| (uh)
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| East Coast Stand Up! |
| (uh)
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| You should
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| Come around my way
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| Here we got these buildings called projects but they ain’t three stories
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| They fill about ten on the block april flow go up by twenty
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| Stories I tell be true story kids cut school and watch Maury
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| Like if they ain’t intelect in what’s affecting my life I can’t respect them
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| But that’s just they way of the ghetto
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| People who come from where I’m from get it But we still gotta make a difference
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| Stand up tall so the world can get it Teach kids pride insted of «Outside»
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| Show another side and they show gon’rise
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| Stop letting responsibilty fall
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| I can tell you ain’t been aroung my way at all
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| Why don’t you come around (way)
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| So you can see what my (way)
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| Eyes been seeing why (way)
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| Why don’t you come around
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| Where we need directions (way)
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| Respect in every lesson (way)
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| Way, why don’t you come around
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| My way (way) my way my way (way) my way (way)
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| Blays Rd. |
| Stand up! |
| (uh)
|
| Pre K Stand Up! |
| (uh)
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| East Coast Stand Up! |
| (uh)
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| You should come around my way
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| You should come around
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| Uh, Uh, Uh Uh, Uh, Uh |