| Nobody let’s beats play anymore
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| Know what I mean?
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| They always just start rappin and shit like
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| Remember when they used to let it just play you could catch a feel or whatever.
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| Look me in my eyes for a minute
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| I ain’t cried in a minute
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| I been dyin on the inside
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| I been tryin just to get us
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| Like my eyes got this tint
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| It’s really hard for me to just smile
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| Lookin round just make me sad
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| They don’t get my frown and that shit just make me mad
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| I never stay down when life kick me in my ass
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| Cause shit ain’t ever hopeless
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| But I wonder should I hope less?
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| What’s the cost of payin attention?
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| Is it too much to be free?
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| Walk in the room like ye high sway all the tension
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| But none of my answers definite
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| Playin lots the same notes
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| Think I need some new chords
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| Doin lots of think I need some new chores
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| Think I need to do mine
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| And you need to do yours
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| Makin sure we all win
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| Maybe we should lose more
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| Maybe we would learn then
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| Maybe we should try shit
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| I don’t want the love if it’s on some one-time shit
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| I ain’t really hear this beat until the sunlight hit
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| I be scared that I’ll never be on the run height shit
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| Sometimes it’s just time for a change
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| I wish I could do the world, but I’ll start with me
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| And no matter how well the music age
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| What’s it mean if I never find harmony?
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| Look me in my eyes for a minute
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| I ain’t cried in a minute
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| I been dyin on the inside
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| I been tryin just to get us
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| Like my eyes got this tint
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| It’s really hard for me to just smile
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| Lookin round just make me sad
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| They don’t get my frown and that shit just make me mad
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| I never stay down when life kick me in my ass
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| Cause shit ain’t ever hopeless
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| But I wonder should I hope less?
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| I’m boutta hit L.E.S. |
| with my final check
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| Shit I just got a letter from the I.R.S
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| Philosophy with that on Clinton’s Harlem office
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| They gon have to get through many brothas just to get to me
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| If you tryna reach me then it’s better not to message me
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| A flair or the bat signal function more effectively
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| Anything but that I really hate my Jack and all these stupid social obligations
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| that ya’ll have for me to keep it packed
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| Bun tied underneath my Yankee cap
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| My city with me everywhere I go
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| Overshield for phony shit to which we be exposed
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| Ex says she want nothin to do with me no more
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| But still posts pictures in my clothes
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| Common sense erodes, enough of that shit
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| Let me light the pack a bowl of that
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| And plus a bowl of Apple Jacks
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| A perfect stack
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| My grandma tried to say I need a new distraction
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| One that don’t involve consumption, numbin pain or bein passive
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| All that on my body’s taxin
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| Told her I might make a switch
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| I ain’t make a promise cause I like my nose the way it is
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| Maybe I could go from toy to boy soon
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| See what life is kinda like
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| Til then I’ll be overdosed on Mike and Ike’s shit I just hope that
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| Look me in my eyes for a minute
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| I ain’t cried in a minute
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| I been dyin on the inside
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| I been tryin just to get us
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| It’s like my eyes got this tint
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| It’s really hard for me to just smile
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| Lookin round just make me sad
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| They don’t get my frown and that shit just make me mad
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| I never stay down when life kick me in my ass
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| Cause shit ain’t ever hopeless
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| But I wonder should I hope less? |