| I hit the streets with about 50 CDs inside a box
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| And work the same cuts as a hustler tryna move 50 rocks
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| I watch crack go for 10, so I don’t have to think twice
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| And they fiend for mine too so I sell 'em at the same price
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| Hustlers support me and best believe that I support them back
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| With words that elevate them up out of the game, I taught them that
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| Installing my ways, spreading knowledge so they won’t fall in the maze
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| Balling for days, the ghetto quarterback calling the plays
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| The Laws roll up but they fly like birds do
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| 'cause when you ask to see some ID, I’ma ask for yours too
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| Then continue and chase that hot dollar 'cause I want it
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| And I wouldn’t give a damn if Charles Manson face was on it
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| Understand
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| Understand that I’m all about my paper
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| Situations about to make me pull a caper
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| Let it be known I’m always paper chasing
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| Violate us and a mob is what your facing
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| I change my name to Dictionary 'cause I rip so many words
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| They call my partner Middle Finger 'cause he flip so many birds
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| And he ain’t never been to jail but it’s only a matter of time
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| Before the ladder you climb play out and the court system shatter your mind
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| Fought with my wicked side and let it rise above me
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| Lay my battles on a prayer rug and let Allah fight it 'em for me
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| Seen him transfer from a boss into a stool pigeon
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| Now you’re spending years living in prison tryna find religion, uh
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| Your game was stale, many tried many failed
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| 25 with an L, then he died in his cell
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| He got a grip of paper, not a penny spent, he in jail
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| Should have quit, but 1 time too many was when he went to the well
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| I went broke and got a 9-to-5, had to try
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| Somebody said, «You got a CD out, why you working?» |
| «'Cause you ain’t buying»
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| 2 tracking but still stacking, accumulating wealth
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| And these units gon' move if I got to buy 'em up myself
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| So understand
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| Understand that I’m all about my paper
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| Situations about to make me pull a caper
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| Let it be known I’m always paper chasing
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| Violate us and a mob is what your facing
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| If you front me 10 G’s I’ma bring you 20 back
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| That’s what I told my homeboy who was slinging plenty crack
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| He said it ain’t no thing I’ll drop a 100 in your lap
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| Man, if I touch that kind of loot, then I ain’t eat much scholar rap
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| I just make some good investments, I advise you to do the same
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| This to the flame, he said I wasn’t true to the game
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| He said I guess you right because I’m not true the system got you
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| He waited until I got through, he said, «You pumping but what about «You making music, every year you come out with something new
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| But every take you drop, you need somebody to invest money in you
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| So you claim I’m getting set up, what you claim might be true
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| But if the system pimping me then it’s pimping your ass too
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| Mine is legal though homeboy, you see I’m using the skill in my dome
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| I chilling at home, I ain’t on the cut killing my own
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| He said, «To each his own» and fires up a joint
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| We agreed to disagree but still agreed on one point
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| And what was that?
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| Understand that I’m all about my paper
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| Situations about to make me pull a caper
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| Let it be known I’m always paper chasing
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| Violate us and a mob is what your facing |