| Now when I just made 12 years old
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| My mama told me:'Baby boy, you know you gotta be strong
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| And even though they lead you wrong, stay on the right track
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| Cause it ain’t no get right without some get back.'
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| Yeah, I heard that, but back then I didn’t feel it
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| Cause I was rollin' do or die, tryna see me a ticket, just kickin'
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| G-block, I said I’ll never leave
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| Even when the rollers chase me down til I can’t breathe
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| Nigga freeze, who me? |
| Oh, never that!
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| I’m hittin' fence after fence until I’m chillin' at my doormat
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| Like a mack I had to get away
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| Cause I’m a smooth operator, ask Sade
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| But the rollers in the V is so shady
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| If they could, they would plan something on me
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| But really, them ain’t the fools I gotta worry 'bout
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| Cause white folks goin' loced in the white house
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| And I doubt a republican or democrate
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| Gives a fuck about us young inner city blacks
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| It’s a trap, Uncle Sam keeps cursing me
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| Rather have me in the pen than the university
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| Yeah, it’s a shame but mane, that’s how it is
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| So ya better peep game and try to lace ya kids
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| Cause it ain’t no tellin' what’s soon to come
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| When the punk president might drop the bomb
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| Got me all stressed out with my brain on numb
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| My little cousin asking me where dope come from
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| They try to tell us in the verses and the scriptures
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| But I guess the real message must have missed us
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| In '96 all my brothers and my sisters
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| Is on a mission, we’re trippin' livin' senseless
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| Tell me, will I see the sun in days to come
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| Will blacks be the victors instead of victims
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| Or will my people keep killing over fuckin' crumbs
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| Pushin' dope just to reach ghetto stardom
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| If you ask Mac Mall who I’m voting for
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| I say:'Farrakhan' as I’m hittin' the bong
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| I put the flame to the swisher or the dohja spliff
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| Get elevated to another as I reminisce
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| About fresh candy paint and peanut butter tops
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| Young hustlers havin' paper, livin' top notch
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| And then the D-game straight decline
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| And all you Sawyer turf niggas makin' headlines
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| 10 o’clock news or America’s most
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| Unsolved mysteries, you better soak some dope
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| Then the judge starts droppin' the injuries
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| On all the gangstas, playahs, macks and G’s
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| And you know you won’t see 'em til about 2 thou'
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| Cause ya boy got washed with a faulty assed trial
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| But at least one day he gone be free
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| Some soldiers ain’t never gonna see the streets
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| That’s why I keep servin' game over my beats
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| So all my people, in and out, can straight feel me
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| There is nowhere for me to run
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| Nowhere for me to hide from reality
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| But I don’t wanna be a casualty
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| Of another tryna smother a brother just cause my salary
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| And dog, I tell ya that these times' so sick
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| That my sister’s smoking dohja, 8 months pregnant
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| My brother bubble on the grind and he’s way legit
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| Working on his third strike and he still won’t quit
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| But I can’t tell him nuttin' bout a salary job
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| So in order to get tha paper the boy gotta mob or sob
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| All will fall to the waistside
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| While the rollers overlook they wanna take lifes
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| Youngstas they gettin' raised off the T. V
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| Got white kids around the country wanna be me
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| And the way they point the finger ain’t even shob
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| Television replace religion, now the gangsta’s god
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| And old folks wonder why we so crazy
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| 90 knuckleheads and 70 high babies
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| And can’t nobody tell me that I’m wrong
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| Uncle Sam finding ways to fit computer chips in my dome
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| So I should ask before you slip
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| See it’s higher than the ultimate trip
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| You know, dedicated to DJ Cee, S-Double the Mac
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| Reach Ghetto Stardom |