| Mic check 1,2 1,2 you know how it goes
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| 11 212 that was the zip code
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| December 27th was the birth of Konata
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| The ‘Met' fan born in the home of the Dodgers
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| D. Strawberry was the man as a toddler
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| From Brooklyn, Crooklyn look homes
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| I’m from that era, where that new era you’re wearing that would’ve got took
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| holmes
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| 718 was the code of the hoodlums
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| 7th floor 2739 Neptune
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| First hallway I would ever lay steps too
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| Where I resided back when the whole small fam united
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| We Started out with 4 but then he divided
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| Daddy left the 3 of us
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| He started wilding
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| Left us stranded in Coney Island
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| Home of the cyclone
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| Jesus Shuttlesworth
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| I’m going psycho
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| A boy In a high rise looking for his idol
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| A 3 year old throwing tantrum for a night glow
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| Where you at?
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| Where they do that at?
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| Where do I go?
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| Moved down to bed stuy
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| 361 green ave was the next stop
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| Never had a rest stop
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| Momma working 2 of em
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| Neither one of em a desk job
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| This is how it is when you grew up how I did, thank God that i followed him now
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| I done learned how to live
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| We’ll be cruising
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| Tie your shoes
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| And walk into my foot steps
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| See with God
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| I came up out that fire
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| Like a Phoenix
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| Cause I’m looking fly now, feeling fine now
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| I don’t mind, when I step out of my line you
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| You hit me like good God
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| You hit me like good God
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| You hit me like good God
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| You hit me like good God
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| New Kirk avenue 1360
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| Vanderveer pj’s
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| Before the hip the hip steez
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| PS 269 my elementary
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| 6 years old she showing me her anatomy
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| I was Introduced young
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| Eyes wide boy I’m frozen like Medusa
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| But this would just become another thing in used To
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| Grew up quick
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| I got boyz in the grave that I grew up wit
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| And that was
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| Pre Flatbush garden
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| When crack was thriving
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| And blacks was Robbing
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| Other blacks that’s starving
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| That was era of my side of America
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| Brooklyn in 90's … it was terror
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| So while you celebrated
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| Christmas season
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| Homie we ain’t a gift under the Christmas tree
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| Cuz we got robbed on Christmas Eve.. and the strangest thing is that the
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| grinch looked just like me
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| Success stories in my hood was unlikely
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| The realest thing I ever wrote. |
| that just might be
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| It was Survival of the fittest in my home town
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| Killing, blood spilling it was real up in that old town
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| We’ll be cruising
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| Tie your shoes
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| And walk into my foot steps
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| See with God
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| I came up out that fire
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| Like a Phoenix
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| Cause I’m looking fly now, feeling fine now
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| I don’t mind, when I step out of my line you
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| You hit me like good God
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| You hit me like good God
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| You hit me like good God
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| You hit me like good God |