| When I was sleeping on the train
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| Sleeping on Meserole Ave out in the rain
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| Without even a single slice of pizza to my name
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| Too proud to beg for change masterin' the pain
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| When New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame
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| But then jackin' our slang
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| I used to get dizzy spells, hear a little ring
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| The voice of a angel tellin' me my name
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| Tellin' me that one day I’m a be a great man
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| Transformin' with the MegatronDon spittin' out flames
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| Eatin' wack rappers alive shittin' out chains
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| I ain’t believe it then, nigga I was homeless
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| Fightin', shootin' dice, smokin' weed on the corners
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| Tryna find the meaning of life in a Corona
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| Till the Five Percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him
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| «You either build or destroy, where you come from?»
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| «The Magnolia projects in the 3rd Ward slum»
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| «Hmm, it’s quite amazing that you rhyme how you do
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| And that you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru»
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| Question 14, Muslim lesson 2: Dip diver, civilize a 85er
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| I make the devil hit his knees and say the Our Father
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| Abracadabra! |
| You rockin' with the true and livin'
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| Shout out to Lights Out, Joseph I, Chewy Bivens,
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| Shout out to Baltimore, Baton Rouge, my crew in Richmond
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| While y’all debated who the truth was like Jews and Christians
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| I was on Cecil B, Broad Street, Master, North Philly, South Philly, 23rd, Tasker
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| 6 Mile, 7 Mile, Hartwell, Gratiot
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| Where niggas really would pack a U-Haul truck up
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| Put the high beams on
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| Drive up on the curb at a barbecue and hop up out the back like «what's up»
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| «Kill a nigga, rob a nigga, take a nigga, buss up»
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| That’s why when you talk that tough talk I never feel ya
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| You sound real good and you play the part well
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| But the energy you givin' off is so unfamiliar
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| I don’t feel ya
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| Nas hit me up on the phone said «what you waitin on»
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| Tip hit me up with a Twit said «what you waitin on»
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| Diddy send a text every hour on the dot sayin «when you gon drop that verse
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| nigga you takin long»
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| So now I’m back spittin that He could pass a polygraph
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| That Reverend Run rockin Addidas out on Hollis Ave
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| That F.O.I., Marcus Garvey, Nikki Tesla
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| I shock you like a eel, electric feel, Jay Electra
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| They call me Jay Electronica
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| Fuck that, call me Jay ElecHannukah
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| Jay ElecYarmulke
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| Jay ElectRamadan Muhammad Asalama’Aleykum Rasul’Allah subhana wa ta’Allah
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| through your monitor
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| My uzi still weigh a ton, check the barometer
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| I’m hotter then the mothafuckin' sun, check the thermometer
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| I’m bringing ancient mathematics back to modern man
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| My momma told me «never throw a stone and hide your hand»
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| I got a lot of family, you got a lot of fans
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| That’s why the people got my back like the Verizon man
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| I play the back and fade to black and then devise a plan
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| Out in London, smokin', vibin' while I ride the tram
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| Givin' out that raw food to lions disguised as lambs,
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| And, by the time they get they seats hot,
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| And deploy all they henchmen to come at me from the treetops,
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| I’m chillin' out at Tweetstock,
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| Building by the millions,
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| My light is brilliant |