| Ay yo
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| This that shit you bob your head to
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| This that brand new instrumental
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| I heard he puts his city on
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| That boy Kells so influential
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| Success got everybody hating
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| Success to me is inspiration
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| Cause how we supposed to know that what we dream is possible
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| If don’t nobody that looks like us makes it?
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| You only got one life, don’t waste it
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| I mean we only got one night, get wasted
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| I mean I know you’re trying to think it out
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| But go with what you feel cause real problems can’t be calculated
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| It’s hard to find the answer when they have no explanation
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| It’s hard to find where you’re headed when there’s no destination
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| It’s hard to know when we’re going when there’s no expiration
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| So until that day, just keep that Kells inside your playlist and
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Drinking whiskey like a desperado
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| My bitches drinking Reposado |
| Ashing in an empty bottle
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| Listening to the songs that put our asses in this empty condo
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| Remember ridin' 'round in Ashleigh’s car though?
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| When the radio first played our song though?
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| Or at her house when MTV first showed my face
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| That clip was crazy, I swear it felt like we won the lotto
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| But a million bucks can’t buy priceless moments
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| An a million people may not know us
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| But every one of us wants this gift we own
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| And that is: how is how to keep it real
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| How to never judge somebody by their steering wheel
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| Cause you know that mother fucker in that Ford Taurus
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| Could be the next mother fucker in that new Porsche
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| But like I said it’s hard to know where you’re headed
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| When there’s no destination
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| So until that day, just keep that Kells inside your playlist and
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| Bring those speakers up on blast, play it all night long
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| This shit right here, man, this shit feels right! |
| Aye Dub! |
| Aye Dre! |
| Aye Irv! |
| you know it’s all year right? |
| Hah! |
| I’m sitting here in the middle of New York
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| City, the night before I gotta turn my second album in, higher than a
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| motherfucka, drunker than a motherfucka, with my boys, and I’m thinking, damn,
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| man 5 years ago, we were dead broke chilling in Cleveland everyday,
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| and the next thing you know, people are calling us about record deals.
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| And you know, the crazy part is, Ashleigh rented this white Nissan Altima for
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| me and Slim so we could drive out to New York. |
| I think she had to some work
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| some shit or something, so she couldn’t go so we were gonna go out there and
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| see what these labels were talking about. |
| And I’m driving us there,
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| but my license’s suspended so I tell Slim, I’m like «Yo, I gotta pull up
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| before we get to New York and switch, so you can drive in case we get pulled
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| over» cause we got pulled over the last time we went there. |
| But you know,
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| he had a license so it made sense for him to drive so cut to like 7 and a half
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| hours later, I’m pulling over in this emergency lane and right as I’m opening |
| the door to switch with Slim, boom! |
| This fucking car going full speed on the
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| highway swerves off the road and smashed into us. |
| Yo, I swear to God I woke up
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| half my body’s laying outside the car in the ditch, like 15−20 feet away from
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| where we just were. |
| The car was totalled, the windows were smashed,
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| it was cold as fuck, it was raining outside, but we were actually okay.
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| I mean, my boy had to go the hospital you know the ambulance came and shit,
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| he ended up being alright, but our meeting’s with the record label started at
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| 2 and we didn’t have no car, and now we were stuck in a fucking hospital in New
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| Jersey. |
| So this dude that, I ended up partnering with later on, his name’s
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| James McMillan, he comes and gets us to these meetings and shit, somehow,
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| someway. |
| I don’t know if it was just because we just got into a crazy car
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| crash and could’ve died a couple of hours ago but I’m in there and like you
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| know I’m not feeling this shit man I’m not feeling this record label shit and
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| we drove back to Cleveland. |
| Now I’m back in Ashleigh’s mom’s basement, |
| I’m thinking about life, you know, I’m on a shit ton of vicodin cause the
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| doctors at the hospital you know gave us something cause we got into that car
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| accident and Ashleigh runs downstairs and she’s like «Yo, yo, Kells, Kells,
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| you’re not gonna believe who wants to talk to you right now.» |
| I’m like, «who?
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| «She's like «He's gonna call you in 30 seconds.» |
| Now I guess, when I was in
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| New York, I had made some kinda noise cause this dude named Byron who ended up
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| becoming my manager later on took this video I had called «Chip off the Block»
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| over to Bad Boy and showed Harve Pierre and Harve Pierre went and showed that
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| vid to a guy named Puff, so I answer my phone, depressed, down, fucked up on
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| vicodin and I hear: «Please hold, I have Mister Sean Combs for you.
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| «I said, god damn, life’s about to change, man, I felt it. |
| And sometimes thats
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| all it takes, it’s just that feeling you know what I mean. |
| I knew I was gonna
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| be here, and now I’m here
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| Feel that, uh
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| Lace up, Kells
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| Lace up, Kells
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| Farewell, yeah |
| This that shit you bob your head to
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| This that brand new instrumental
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| I heard he puts his city on
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| That boy, Kells |