| Know what I’m saying yeah
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| The Hear After
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| Gotta thank everybody that’s been supporting me
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| Holding me down for all these years
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| You know what I’m saying
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| Peace
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| Yo
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| Every morning I wake with enough aches
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| Why?
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| You’d think I was sleeping with a wrench in my back
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| But its a two year old elbow to be exact
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| Crack of dawn
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| Me and my earth be under attack
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| See from three deep to five deep
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| And two years with no sleep
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| And no beef
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| My baby’s bedtime smiles are so sweet
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| Brush teeth, potty training
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| Wash up, diaper changing
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| Push ups, stretching, contemplate today’s lessons
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| Kids dressed in more colors than Mike and Ike
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| Breakfast smelling right, watching Mike and Mike
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| Enter the chamber of the live one
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| My life is like a black and white sitcom
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| More calm
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| Yeah right, not quite
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| I cherish moments that I’m not under the spotlight
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| I love what I do but see tours take eternities
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| I’m gone one week and Molly’s grown two feet
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| (?) got new speaks, (?) bringing in new teeth
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| Struggling for balance between work and family
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| Money versus time, beats versus rhymes
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| Yours versus mine
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| Making you grind versus sparking your mind
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| Heat from the Earth’s core versus the sunshine
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| The Best Part versus All Of The Above
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| Always has been, always will be, almost killed me
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| Yet it still be he necessary chapter
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| For me to move on
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| Closer to The Hear After
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| After its all said and done
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| You can hear and see a legacy
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| Not ironically, dating back to longevity
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| With steady bops rocking steadily
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| Whether the disks rotate light or heavily
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| After I’m home from a long day’s work
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| Paychecks determine if it be a smile or a smirk
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| That I’m greeted with
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| I can’t be feeding kids with stories of being jerked
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| That’s why when you try, you go beserk
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| Hustling hard to bring plans full circle
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| Like this here beat, feel free to critique
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| The entrance was too long, the exit too short
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| But its my way or the highway
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| So fuck what you thought
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| I’m after the gold, and after the platinum
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| No wait damn
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| I promise no more quotes while I’m rapping
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| But wait, I’m after the platinum, after the gold
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| After those records fail with a few hundred thousand records sold
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| I’m after the opening before the top billing
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| Mr. In Between, but that another sorry scene
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| After all that I’ve done, I’m almost famous like
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| Ay, yo are you for real man? |
| You’ve never heard of son? |
| Damn
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| At least m sons and daughters will have heard a chord or two
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| If I never live to see another day
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| Show them just another way to live forever
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| I’ll bet whatever their endeavors
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| They’ll grow to be at least three times as clever
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| After the sun sets on my rap career
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| I’ll be satisfied with the long ride to reach your ear
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| With those that hold it dear
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| But that day is at least nowhere near
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| For least another ten years yeah
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| In between times during these mean times
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| Rewind it back so you can analyze this and that
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| What you don’t hear now, you hear after
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| I’m rapping, then run up on me like
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| «Then what happened» |