| Solesides
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| Alright, alright, alright
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| Let’s get one thing clear right now
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| Lot of emcees out here claiming that they got styles
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| And that they tight, huh
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| But I don’t give a damn about none of them
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| Cause, see me
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| See, I’m gon' be alright, live my life as long as I’m alive
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| I ride on five-eighty, but I’m not an eighty-fiver
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| Usually exit high enough to fly like Egyptian gliders
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| Bringing the message to the black man like Elijah
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| Honourable, did I mention, ain’t no dissent amongst the strivers
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| No tension or fights, there just be lessons in life
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| I’m a subscriber to the Call that’s Final
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| Fiend for the knowledge like my DJ fiends for vinyl
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| Hold the microphone like a habitual user, like winos
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| Clutch wine bottles, in my death grotto
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| Until my skin gets mottled, don’t expect to get coddled
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| Cause see me, patna
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| I wasn’t raised in no family that got up to pops reading stocks
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| It was more like he was down the block
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| At my uncles' rolling up chops, getting off knocks
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| Had the whole damn neighbourhood on lock
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| Back before the game was hard like rocks
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| Yet lightweight like Glocks, and this shit don’t stop
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| It’s as frightening as the idea of a million black men
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| Marching on Washington might have been to some people
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| But then only if we’re not equal
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| As shoulders get colder, individuals get older and bolder
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| I ain’t buying what they sold ya, I’m a soldier
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| The Warriors first round number one pick like Joe Smith
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| Thought I told ya
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| I ain’t average, I manage to move my mandible rapidly to scold ya
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| Got a powerful role as flamby as the average nigga’s plan B
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| Ought to be running shit in '96 ala Marcus Camby
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| Can be, can he do it? |
| All night until the early morning
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| Break of dawn light, I flow like fluid out your spigot
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| Rough and wicked when I kick it
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| Yes, righteous and I might just never even quit
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| Because it’s only to the will of Allah that I submit
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| Righteous and I might just never ever quit
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| Because it’s only to the will of Jah that I submit like that
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| The name’s Lateef and if you’ve got beef
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| You’ll get cut up by the butcher’s cutlery
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| I’ll sink my teeth into your neck like a mastiff
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| Fool, you’re weak, I got five on your cheek
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| I’ll crash the boards and glass, slam that ass as fast
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| As Shareef Abdur-Rahim, clean the glass
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| I must do that, degrees that keep the shitstem up
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| Victims for pickings, royal stickings, stick with poli-tricks
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| And politicians acting like they on a hell-bent mission
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| For the annihilation, desolation of the human nation
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| Brother, listen cause they’re testing my faith
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| What I’m feeling is the wreckoning, the quickening
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| Expression of the manifestation of victory
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| Regardless of societies that sneak around in secrecy
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| You see it gets deep, deep as history
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| Creeps like time since 4000 BC, it’s not a mystery
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| Lord knows, revealed to my soul and it shows
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| I spit flows that’ll rock past the 21st century
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| They trying to keep it real, but compared to what
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| When there ain’t even no backing to their passing buck
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| When you shift from the material shit they get stuck
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| Trip, they gone slip, throw up a brick, in the clutch
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| All because they really just don’t give a fuck
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| Yet I’m righteous and I might just never even quit
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| Because it’s only to the will of Allah that I submit
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| Righteous and I might just never ever quit
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| Because it’s only to the will of Jah that I submit like that |