| It goes: life, difficult times, and mad crimes
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| Some pay the price, while others refine
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| Blessed are those who struggle -- God loves you
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| And Wisdom is the principle thing for Kings and Queens
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| Many alliance will end, it’s like a sad song
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| from a violin, trapped like Daniel’s in the Lion’s Den
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| Tryin to pie-rce the iron skin, of Leviathan
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| Souls blowin in the violent winds
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| God help us, if we die in sign, I hear the trials
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| in the cries of men, that’s when the riot begins
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| Like things never get better, we forever
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| servin Nebuchadnezzar, since the days of our ancestors
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| Slaves to a mad pleasure, building great architectures
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| Sharp dressers, smart professors
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| Start my lecture, I build lyrics like a art director
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| Show it to you like the film projector
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| Blessed are those who struggle, from day to day we all hustle
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| Comin home with sore muscles, and scarred faces
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| Scuffed knuckles, we all share the same trouble
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| Seperated couples, sometimes it seem like
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| there’s no escapin, the clutches of Satan
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| Spendin years in state pens, awaitin patient
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| Dreams of a scholarship, ended by a hollowtip
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| Politics and number slip
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| Once, shoved in ships, now we Bloods and Crips
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| Thugs with clips, niggaz who love the clicks
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| Hit the clubs and shit, so they can rub their hips
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| Hugs and flicks, niggaz with drugs and whips
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| Cash Rules this Rotten Apple, they got a worm in it Corrupt sinners, in my man’s jeep
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| with the windows tinted, sippin Guinness
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| Observin all the clinics, and liquor spots
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| They make me lick a shot through the rooftop
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| I never seen the glory
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| In the ghetto it’s the same story
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| Ciggarette butts and cold coffee, black faces
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| and white mouths, they cry out, for the White House
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| Ain’t no wealth shared, it’s welfare
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| and poor health care, self scared
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| It’s senseless, the way they got our black princess
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| on public assistance to end our existance
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| It’s a blessing… to struggle
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| It’s a blessing…
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| Yeahhyeahhh, it’s a blessing, just a blessing
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| It’s a blessing… *fades* |