| «This is probably the most challenging record
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| You have ever put on your turntable.»
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| The facts, the facts get fried like your eggs scrambled
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| Truth until it falls off the ledge lays dead or vexed
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| Tennis feds (?) need the last price, gassed ego
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| He don’t show or know about the last nights and days
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| Of a brother who went for his
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| My land built on hatred and sent to kids
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| Ice Cube killed his own and it was square biz
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| So if I say fuck you to a jew, you know what time it is
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| Of my own kind but not of my own mind
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| Came to America but became blind
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| Chased from the four corners of the earth
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| But over here it’s alright, at least your ass is white
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| So sit down and mingle with the devil over supper
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| The only difference between us and a brother is the color
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| Instead of hittin the last nail in the coffin try to pull it out
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| And find out what the hard but true is all about
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| It’s hard. |
| but it’s true
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| The hard but the true
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| It’s hard. |
| but it’s true
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| The hard but the true
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| So hard. |
| but so true
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| The hard but the true
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| It’s hard. |
| but it’s true
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| The hard but the true
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| Hard, what? |
| Truth sometimes too hard to be true
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| So I’ma make it stick like glue
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| Too many times too many crimes get backed up
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| Case comes up, oops! |
| Switch all the facts up
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| Three kids rape a sister at St. John’s
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| And become graduates, instead of cons
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| Instead of washin drawers or be somebody’s whore
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| College wack buffed and polished and they kept the doors closed
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| Jail time (yeah?) Wasn’t even fazin 'em
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| Probably one of the fathers gave the school a gymnasium
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| Korean kills a girl and claims insane, and gets a pardon?
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| Bring her honor to the court of Nickerson Garden
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| And get a lifetime sentence of the bent over
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| Tell a fool, tell a friend and then sent over
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| Hollow point slugs made of nothin but lead
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| The hard but true is takin you straight to the head
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| Reggie McBride, yeah.
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| Asalaam alaikum to a Muslim
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| Shalom alaikum is the same to a Hebrew
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| Peace akeem, akeem peace to a Zulu
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| Tell me what’s the difference why you riffin what’s the point of view?
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| Universal greeting is the same
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| The game is three-sixty it don’t matter what the slang
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| Gangs of thugs carry slugs use the mind as a Glock 9
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| Wake the ones then shake the ones
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| Then make the ones come into the daytime
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| And spark the mark labelled X
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| And knowledge the text
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| Use the wit not as a whip reload the clip then shoot from the hip
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| Cause yo! |
| This is some ol' next shit
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| One circle, one hurdle, one jump
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| One nation under the groove, and then over the hump
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| Of racist dogs, that keep barkin in the street
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| Serch’ll bring the hard but true to your feet, complete!
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| It’s hard. |
| but it’s true
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| The hard but the true
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| It’s hard. |
| but yo, it’s true
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| The hard but the true
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| It’s hard. |
| but it’s true
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| The hard but the true
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| So hard. |
| so true
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| The hard but the true
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| Yeah Wolf & Epic, cool
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| Ay you, ay you ay you, ay you ay you
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| Ay you, it’s hard but it’s true
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| Ay you, ay you ay you ay you
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| It’s hard but it’s true, you hebrew or you jew
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| Your christian, your muslim, your islam, your brother, your sister
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| It’s hard but it’s true. |
| peace |