| Uh, every project Article One
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| Every hood, every ghetto
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| Freedom of Speech, this one we gon’talk to them
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| This goes out to the hoods, 4th Disciple
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| Every ghetto need a government, you know?
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| Think of the times, man, when responsibilities become for real
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| From Red Hook to Ohio, baby, A-One
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| Take your time, young man, I remember they used to say
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| All that glitter ain’t gold, I remember they used to say
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| You got to live your life… you got to live your life
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| Take your time, young man
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| We was young men, never thought it would come to an end
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| In the projects, I lived there, Red Hook, Brooklyn
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| Before kings got shot at, for beige sheep skins
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| Reminiscin’on the nights we didn’t listen to Glenn
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| On the stoupe, smokin’weed drinkin’a fifth of gin
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| We had the same Timberlands before that winter came in Now I begin to make a change before my seed get ten
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| In the womb of the beast, we like the seed that sin
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| Through the children is the only way we breathe again
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| We never notice it, but still the drug game, is over with
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| You either die or go to jail, for the one controllin’it
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| We never ship it, but always get caught for holdin’it
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| While the government finance those who float it in So who’se the culprits? |
| The one ownin’it or who be smokin’it?
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| To those who lost souls in the game, to my condolences
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| Flashback to all the past blacks, died for cracks
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| Made grandmothers faint out, and have heart attacks
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| Fuck a democrat, welcomin’mat, we send them back
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| Til we take back the almanac, to plan a format
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| Never saw in rap, on a A-DAT, for real
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| In my ghetto, son, the walls have ears
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| Same rumors carried on for years, more and more forties and beers
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| Reminiscin’on the pictures we shared, coffee park
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| You blunted on the benches and stairs, and never scared
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| Nigga violate at all, toe to toe in the square
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| Elevator ride, you play a corner or catch a black eye
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| Hot piece and butter, find a bell, taste the fat guy
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| Back then, Black and Sly Time, had the loudest ride
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| We went from petty crime, to up north, to federal time
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| Money circulate, some paper chase for nickels and dimes
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| Some will die while they was holdin’they steel, in automobiles
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| You noticin’the snake eyes was all in his grill
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| From success, come the envious, revenge and sex
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| In the projects, no tellin’if you death be next
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| Gamblin’bets, debts turn to techs and threats
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| We all strugglin’from Puerto Ricans down to Aztecs
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| All my young’ns, comin’up. |