| For many years i was seeking asylum
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| In the bleakest environment its rhyme possessed me where manny started
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| Speaking retirement so whats the rose that your feeling of fashion
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| Of yellin and trashin for what its worth there was no quellin the passion
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| In love was dead I wanted pace we get it luck’ll said
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| And so i polished my shit until my knuckles bled
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| Treadin thin ice n all i caught were chills
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| Sacrifices were appertisers mic just said a mills
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| It’s hand was mine silver plated till i made it expand
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| Mmind i burnt my name into the sands of time
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| The rhyme gave me strength to less avail
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| Get used to these backstabbers so now i sleep on a bed of nails
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| I never fail but turnin tides are moving too slow
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| I swept the depths of ever ocean just to prove i could flow
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| So from the cradle to the grave to table to holy fathers
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| Where i didn’t slit my wrist i got the hiphop stigmata’s
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| You’ve got to pray
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| To hiphop almighty
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| We bless the microphone nightly
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| Open up the lyric from inside me
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| It’s our calling its what we say
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| You’ve got to pray/this is the calling
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| We can never be fake
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| Thanks to hiphop i got a bed in every state
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| And without it i’d roam the city with no purpose
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| Without the underground ima clown without a circus
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| I flip verses your feeling me abilities
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| My currency with which i buy credibility
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| Facilities were built just to be torn down
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| Till the wheels fall off and my pencils all worn down
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| To death comes to collect his debt or wreck the set
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| When heads checkin retrospect i’ll get respect
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| cuz i did what i was told to do
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| It’s hiphop i did it all for you
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| We true to this got cloud on ta-tables getting played
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| We doing this without a label not getting paid
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| So from the cradle to the grave microphone to retirement home
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| I’ll be on stage, i’ll never leave the mic alone
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| You’ve got to pray
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| To hiphop almighty
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| We bless the microphone nightly
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| Open up the lyric from inside me
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| It’s our calling its what we say
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| You’ve got to pray/this is the calling
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| Because we all out or we’re all in
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| And if we fall out then we will fall in
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| It’s the calling
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| It’s what i hear in my sleep, its the shiver up my spine when im feeling the
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| beat
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| It’s the fear n defeat that needs a better myself
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| It’s the culture its not about spreading the wealth
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| It’s a gettin the time when your perfecting a rhyme
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| It’s every time i sweat that im shake it in minds |