| What we need to do is keep everything
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| In our neighbourhood, everything, black
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| Black-owned with black money
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| Just like the Jews, the Italians
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| The Mexicans and the Koreans do
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| Ain’t nobody from outside bringing
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| Down the property value
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| It’s these folk
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| Shooting each other and selling
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| That crack rock and shit
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| How you think crack gets
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| Into the country
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| We don’t own any planes
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| We don’t own no ships
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| We are not the people who are flying
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| And floating that shit in here
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| If you want to talk about guns
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| Why is it that there’s a gun shop
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| On every corner in this community
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| Why
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| For the same reason that there’s a liquor store
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| On almost every corner in the black community
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| Why? |
| They want us to kill ourselves
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| You go out to Beverly Hills
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| You don’t see that shit
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| What am I supposed to do
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| Fool roll up, try to smoke me
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| I’m gonna shoot the motherfucker
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| If he don’t kill me first
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| You doing exactly
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| What they want you to do
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| You have to think, young brother
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| About your future
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| Now I seen a lot of things
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| Growing up man I been through lot of shit
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| Fuck friends, when you struggle niggas split
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| When you try to holler at’em homies trip
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| Stressed out, pop a bottle, have a sip
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| Pass the weed, spark it up, let’s get lit
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| Fuck’em all yo' my nigga let’s get rich
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| Doing business and we got it all legit
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| Now we plotting on what we’re doing next
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| I know they wanna hold us back
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| When in fact economic empire that is what we tryna build
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| Connect, connect
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| Players at the top tryna get us disconnect
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| Now I bet you’re wondering
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| How we got to operating secretly
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| Dumb niggas I don’t want’em close to me
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| Only real niggas with a common interest
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| Just assuming ain’t nobody got my back
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| They ain’t gotta know
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| Keep it on the low
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| No info for the po-po
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| My connects, only real niggas know
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| They ain’t gotta know
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| Keep it on the low
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| No info for the po-po
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| My connects, only real niggas know
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, we still connect, we still connect
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| Uh! |
| Uh! |
| Real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, we still connect, we’ll still connect
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| Uh! |
| Uh! |
| Real niggas still connect
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| My niggas been operating from the dungeon
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| I seen enough to know there’s keepers on the interim
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| You still on the sinking ship we’ve abandoned
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| Made niggas ain’t chosen on a random
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| They won’t tell us what they shipping off to London
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| That is where the most is getting all their funding
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| We ain’t gotta see where the millionaires sit
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| All we tryna do’s to peep how the billionaires think, huh
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| Lalala!!! |
| That’s the ghetto lullaby
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| You nigga’s still sleeping, we getting organized
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| KKK!!! |
| That’s how niggas die
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| The night life’s like a slow form of suicide
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| Girls love us but I know they love the money more
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| What the fuck you think I came up to this party for
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| They won’t let us in through the front though
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| So we gonna scheme connections through the backdoor, hah
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| They ain’t gotta know
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| Keep it on the low
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| No info for the po-po
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| My connects, only real niggas know
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| They ain’t gotta know
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| Keep it on the low
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| No info for the po-po
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| My connects, only real niggas know, Keep it real
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, we still connect, we still connect
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| Uh! |
| Uh! |
| Real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, we still connect, we’ll still connect
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| Uh! |
| Uh! |
| Real niggas still connect
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| Now I’m out to get what is really mine
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| I’m about a fat cheque, not a puny dime
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| My connects got the operation set
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| So we entail the facts you cannot deny
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| You and I know snitches die slow
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| And I don’t trust those bitches you rely on
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| Visualize me pull a dessert eagle when I see your people on the streets
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| Acting jealous like they’re side-hoes
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| See it’s a different journey walking in my shoes
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| A rich nigga told me, you don’t really need school
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| Niggas tryna get a job, they get stuck in queues
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| But it’s fuck you too until you fucking make it too
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| A hundred bucks is like a thousand where I’m from
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| And a thousand like a hundred when we ball
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| Got no time to stall, yeah I know it all
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| If I’m wrong, going through the loopholes in the law
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| Ties like the mob
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| They ain’t gotta know, Hell muthafuckin' nah
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| Keep it on the low, It’s how we do nigga
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| No info for the po-po, Stay true nigga
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| My connects, only real niggas know, Still down for the low-low
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| They ain’t gotta know, Hell nigga tell’em nah
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| Keep it on the low, When we ride
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| No info for the po-po, If they try
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| My connects, only real niggas know, Hell muthafuckin' yeah
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, we still connect, we still connect
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| Uh! |
| Uh! |
| Real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, real niggas still connect
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| We still connect, we still connect, we’ll still connect
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| Uh! |
| Uh! |
| Real niggas still connect |