| Roc-A-Fella, 1st AND!
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| Jay… Lupe!
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| Yeah, uhh
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| And so it seems that I’m, sewin jeans
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| And, 1st and 15 is just a sewin machine
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| So I, cut the pattern and I, sew in seams
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| And, button in this hustlin then publically I’m Buddy Lee
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| There’s no bustin them and cuffin them is like
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| usherin in the regime, they want me to make Prince pants
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| But I withstand, I ain’t gotten into that
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| A little big in the waist, two-pocket on the back
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| Call them Nu-vi's, O.G.'s covered in blue dye
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| Give 'em the game, that’s like givin chocolate to the fat
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| Look, how you think I got here?
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| That’s the same game that came through where I lived as a kid
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| in the bad luck truck and threw boxes off the back
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| Made me a ripper, deliver like river
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| Content a little more thicker, slicker
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| Yeah, and they said oil and water don’t mix
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| Now they all down at the beach washin off the fish
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| Was Blackbeard 'til I brought the Roc into your ships
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| YEAH!
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| It’s my life, my life — everything I dooo I dooooo for you
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| I do it all for you — everything I say you knowwww it’s the truth
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| I’ll say it is the truth — I’ll take all the pressure offff of you
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| Take pressure off of you; |
| I’ll take, the pressure off of you
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| YEAH!
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| Uhh, it’s hella proper (proper)
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| Cause it sag so low you can see boxer, like a boxer’s
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| That’s the way that the Family’s pants worn
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| Then we slide, and try and put 'em on The stones in the pocket’ll drag you down to Davy Jones locker
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| Beware if you wanna Roc the Knickerbocker
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| Other nigga from the block what, they was sellin O’s
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| like Wheel of Fortune, of imported cocaine
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| just to feel important, it was +Do or Die+
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| They was tired of bein «Po'Pimps,"now for sure
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| That was just a product of my common sense
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| I guess, I was just guessin like the consonants
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| Momma said beware of what the devil do Tell 'em that your soul’s not for sale like the W’s
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| So go ahead and pirate, the highest
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| cannons make you leak like pirated my shhh.
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| It’s no shhh. |
| it’s just shhh like quiet
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| And big homey’s out of retirement
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| Uhh, Young, uhh
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| So the pen is mightier than the sword my lord
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| My first picture was a line-up, now I’m on the Forbes
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| And I still remain the artiste through thees all
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| If you force my hand I’ll be forced to «draw»
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| If the war calls for war halls
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| Hope you got enough space on your hall’s walls
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| I make niggaz murals, then escape the bureau’s
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| investigation, out in Europe on vacation
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| I’m back for these puppies with the pound boy
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| (Blaow) Here’s a round boy (blaow blaow) down boy
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| Sound boy, you don’t wanna soundclash loud noise
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| leave niggaz paranoid if not paralyzed
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| Which means you can’t walk in my shoes
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| Too much green you can’t talk in my hue
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| Extend the team, nigga holla at Lu'
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| 1st and 15th, that’s my cue, I’m through |