| Now I’m a flip the track and bring you back to reality
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| I’m like Wesley Snipes, I act without a salary
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| Cause I don’t need nobody sayin Lights, Camera, Action!
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| I act on reaction
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| Fuck what you see on television
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| Cause nowadays all of us live in the hellavision
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| On every single channel it’s the same old sane
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| Brothers’poppin their brain
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| Or gettin wrecked at a soccer game
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| Six brothers fallin victim to the street
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| After mad? |
| tribe vibes rollin in the black jeep
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| Every other channel spent its money on the talk shows
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| From Oprah to Horazo, everybody in New York knows
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| But when a brother gets real
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| They make the story opposite
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| And try to offer niggas raw deals
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| Television tells lies to the vision
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| The world’s a prison
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| We’re livin in hellavision
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| Every day your lie to me is drama
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| But not the type of drama that my T.V. shows
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| Because it makes the drama calmer
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| When a lady’s caught cheatin
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| She sets with the next man
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| And doesn’t even catch a ass-beatin
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| Reality check — that’s what the T.V. said
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| Cause in real life it’s two to the fuckin head
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| Samedy Sam fillin bugs with slugs
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| Wild? |
| is cookin up these deadly drugs
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| Bart Simpson is cursin up for storm
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| And children love this shit man, come on I see kids that say bringin guns to school
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| Ten year old crack heads and that ain’t cool
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| My four year old daughter curses worse than Bart
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| Straight from my heart, it’s tearin me apart
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| And now, hip hop is labelled as a violencer
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| Like everyone who rhymes packs a gat with the silencer
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| Every other? |
| hip hopper goes to prison
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| Over some dumb shit or for the real life livin
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| But who’s to know what we’ve been goin through
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| When all you see is one side of us The side the T.V. be showing you
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| You never hear about the stress or the work
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| Or the hard times we had or hip hop was getting jerked
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| You only see us in the limelight
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| But when the night comes, we’re always linked to crime, right?
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| Man — what I’ve been through is strife
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| Yo — they could make fifty movies of my motherfuckin life
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| And there’s a million like me The people you don’t see
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| When you watch your everyday T.V. |