| Is the groove good to you
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| Like when you lose your thing
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| Forgetten grits is grocery
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| And eggs is poultryMakin a livin against those makin a killin
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| Super blackman gotha back
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| And is back in the building
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| If the prison is that skin you in
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| And your cell sittin inside your skull
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| They say you can’t getaway
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| From ya damn self
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| When your earth is heaven
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| And your world be hell
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| Check your head
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| Armageddons at the foot of your bedYou ain’t heard a word i said
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| Forget them slacksIm that throwback that
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| Threw that throwback
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| Back on the racks
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| To get my mind backO say can you see
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| I get back its still just a black and white tv
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| In lyin color brother
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| Gots to getaway to the other.
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| Never was too good
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| Off the top of my headCause i want yall to know
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| Exactly what i saidThis so called war in iraq
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| Over a thousand dead
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| Thats about
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| 10 a week
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| Even as i speak33% of black males in jail
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| 55% of black students will fail
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| 85% of black folks forgot
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| We were slaves
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| Up inside this boxAmerica got folks brains on lock
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| Forget the connectsSome wanna buy whats next
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| Wear it like a sign up in that chestYall should know papa dont take no messIf
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| you think your past is irrelevant
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| Dont you know ol soul pays the gt damn rent
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| That messiah ain’t never
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| Gonna come as long asYou thinkin freedom
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| Is bein free to be dumb
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| Soul is back
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| So flip them hits back
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| Damn the fashion
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| I wanna know wheres the passionThinkin we came a long way babySayin poor
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| michaels psycho
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| And prince hes crazyBut what has bob mick sir paul
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| Done for you latelyHow they maintain on your brain
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| Seems to escape meHeard some ghetto cats
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| Dont like metal rapHear it and fear it
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| And they think its wackThey dont even know that the blues is black
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| And when i rap is back to the rootsWhere i be atNot some 30 year old who dont
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| know facts
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| Whos wild sayin things like some juvenileRemember 2 million black folks in the
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| penile
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| Got a world of whitefolks
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| Thinkin its styleThink im hatin cause you lack the information
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| Cause we the fbi still gots on file |