| Peace
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| Still ain’t the word to play
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| Still the first word heard when you play a CD by J
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| Still is what ya can’t be if you’re live as me
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| Wide awake third eye moving rapidly
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| Rappin, rougher than rap and smoother than Anita Baker’s Rapture
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| Well-rounded MC
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| Actin' not but (?) action stop
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| Wisdom by the barrel under lock and key
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| Capture words, attack your nerves
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| And make them slaves to the rhythm
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| If ya listen you’ll be setting them free
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| (?) then the god I be
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| If its just I see the equality over quantity
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| If its no fool’s gold, not a prob for me
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| It’s more than a job for me
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| If it was, I’d be more than a temp you see
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| Dedicated by (?)
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| OD on the dope beat E A T
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| Soulive and J-Live on the MPC
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| FYI this be album three
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| (?) triple threat never run MD
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| Go to produce, DJ, and MC
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| Truth seeker where the place to be
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| Here!
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| Where the spot (?) and come ya’ll
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| Where the part known as the best ya’ll
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| Here!
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| Matter of a fact turn it up so ya’ll
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| Hear!
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| Been on the job since 1995
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| Changed the game since the moment I arrived and
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| Setbacks and pitfalls I survived and
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| Who leave a diamond in the rough so jaded
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| Green with envy as the next man who made it
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| But I remain unfazed, unfaded
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| Keepin' my hands on the mircophone
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| Settin' the tone like a blade to a whetstone
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| Before my bills get paid skills get honed
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| You can’t get taht might as well get gone
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| Here!
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| Cause right here be the place where
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| And short term ambitions are replaced there
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| Cause man listen while you dissin'
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| We go from transition
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| To booth dishin'
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| It be the same old wishin' with a new vision
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| And I see
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| Clear!
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| To a place where a knowledge of self
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| Is promoted by the (?) being pushed by the people with wealth
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| And the bass-ackwards, junk food rappers
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| Aren’t the only one recognized up on the shelf
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| And the people in the club got a chance to
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| Dance to something that maintains a little bit of self respect
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| Cause the people in the booth with the ears on the youth
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| Really care about the music that you
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| Hear!
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| Maybe then the J-Live aid
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| Hear!
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| When you let the radio rage
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| Here!
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| And the dopest MC’s get slayed
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| Here!
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| Matter fact turn it up all the way
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| Yeah!
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| Get a little bit of this underground
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| Underrated, unexaggerated, appreciated
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| Anticipated even though we’re still underestimated
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| Get up under the influence of the most fluent students of life
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| No man alive graduated
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| In this class super senior, the celebrated
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| Get up under the undercurrent
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| Under current events of one nation under currency
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| I’ll serve you a mental death sentence concurrently
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| Get some of this potion
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| The most potent, important, imported
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| From a place where the taste make you swim for it
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| Yeah!
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| Get your good foot up on the good ship, craftsmanship
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| Set sail roundtrip
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| From the mind to the lip to the ear to the mind
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| Here!
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| Never mind the blind leading the dumb
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| Till the only ones left are the deaf and the doped up
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| Till the deaf and dumb give their hopes up not
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| Here!
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| You in a place where we skippin' over
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| The worst part where land so desolate
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| And the pessimists stuck on stressin' it
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| And the outsiders that make a mess of it
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| This The Hear After, the next testament
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| I know the mic sound right
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| Fuck testin' it
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| I just get on the beat and start blessin' it
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| Thats the intro enjoy the rest of it
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| Here! |