| When it comes to being true, at least true to me
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| One thing I’ve found, one thing I found
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| Oh no, you’ll never let me down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Yo, first I snatched the streets, then I snatched the charts
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| First I had they ear, now I have they heart
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| Rappers came and went, I’ve been here from the start
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| I seen them put it together, watched them take it apart
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| Seen the Rovers roll up with ribbons
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| I seen them re-po'd, re-sold, then re-driven
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| So when I reload, he holds number one position
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| When you hot, I’m hot
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| And when your feet cold, mines is sizzling
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| It’s plain to see, niggas can’t fuck with me
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| 'cause I’ma be that nigga for life
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| This is not an image, this is God-given
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| This is hard-livin', mixed with Cristal sippin'
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| It’s the most consistent, Hov
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| Give you the most hits you can fit inside a whole disc and
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| Nigga I’m home on these charts, y’all niggas visitin'
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| It’s Hov tradition, Jeff Gordon of rap
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| I’m back to claim pole position, holla at ya boy
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| When it comes to being true, at least true to me
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| One thing I’ve found, one thing I found
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| Oh no, you’ll never let me down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Get up, I get down, get up
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| I get down for my grandfather who took my mama
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| Made her sit in that seat where white folks ain’t want us to eat
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| At the tender age of 6, she was arrested for the sit-ins
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| And with that in my blood I was born to be different
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| Now niggas can’t make it to ballots to choose leadership
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| But we can make it to Jacob’s and to the dealership
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| That’s why I hear new music and I just don’t be feelin' it
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| Racism’s still alive, they just be concealin' it
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| But I know they don’t want me in the damn club
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| They even made me show ID to get inside of Sam’s Club
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| I done did dirt and went to church to get my hands scrubbed
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| Swear I’ve been baptized 'least three or four times
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| But in the land where niggas praise Yukons and getting paid
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| It’s gonna take a lot more than coupons to get us saved
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| Like it take a lot more than doo rags to get you waves
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| Nothing sad as that day my girl’s father passed away
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| So I promised to Mr. Rainey I’m gonna marry your daughter
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| And you know I gotta thank you for the way that she was brought up
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| And I know that you were smiling when you see the car I bought her
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| You sent tears from heaven when you seen my car get balled up
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| But I can’t complain what the accident did to my left eye
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| 'Cause look what an accident did to Left Eye
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| First Aaliyah now Romeo must die
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| I know I got angels watching me from the other side
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| When it comes to being true, at least true to me
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| One thing I’ve found, one thing I found
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| Oh no, you’ll never let me down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| Get up, I get down, get up, I get down
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| We are all here for a reason on a particular path
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| You don’t need a curriculum to know that you’re a part of the math
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| Cats think I’m delirious but I’m so damn serious
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| That’s why I expose my soul to the globe; |
| the world
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| I’m trying to make it better for these little boys and girls
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| I’m not just another individual
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| My spirit is a part of this that’s why I get spiritual
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| But I get my hymns from Him
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| So it’s not me, it’s He that’s lyrical
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| I’m not a miracle, I’m a heaven-sent instrument
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| My rhythmatic regiment navigates melodic notes
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| For your soul and your mental
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| That’s why I’m instrumental, vibrations is what I’m into
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| Yeah I need my loot by rent day
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| But that ain’t what gives me the heart of Kunta Kinte
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| I’m trying to get us «us free» like Cinque
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| I can’t stop, that’s why I’m hot
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| Determination, dedication, motivation
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| I’m talking to you of my many inspirations
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| When I say I can’t let you or self-down
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| If I were on the highest cliff, on the highest riff
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| And if you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life
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| In my grip, I would never ever let you down
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| And when these words are found
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| Let it be known that God’s penmanship has been signed
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| With a language called love
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| That’s why my breath is felt by the deaf |
| And while my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind
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| I too dream in color and in rhyme
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| So I guess I’m one of a kind in a full house
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| 'Cause whenever I open my heart, my soul or my mouth
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| A touch of God reigns out
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| Take 'em to church
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| When it comes to being true, at least true to me
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| One thing I found, one thing I found
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| Oh no, you’ll never let me down
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| Get up, I get, get up, I get
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| Get up, I get, get up, I get
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| Get up, I get, get up, I get down
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| Who else you know been hot this long?
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| (Oh yeah, we ain’t finished)
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| Started from nothing but he got this strong
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| (The Roc is in the building)
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| Built the Roc from a pebble, peddled rock before I met you
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| Pedaled bikes, got my nephews pedal bikes because they special (Wooooo)
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| Let you tell it, man, I’m falling
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| Well, somebody must have caught him
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| 'Cause every fourth quarter, I like to Mike Jordan them
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| Number one albums, what I got? |
| Like four of them
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| More of them on the way, the eighth wonder on the way
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| Clear the way, I’m here to stay
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| Y’all can save the chitter chat, this and that
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| This is Jay, dissing Jay will get you maced
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| When I start spitting them lyrics niggas get very religious
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| Six Hail Marys, 'Please Father forgive us'
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| Young the archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y’all niggas
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| The way y’all all follow Jigga
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| Hov’s a living legend and I’ll tell you why
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| Everybody wanna be Hov and Hov’s still alive |