| Oh, nuh bodda ask mi 'bout what I don’t know
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| (Don't know)
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| Ask mi 'bout how di yutes flow
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| (How di yutes flow)
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| It’s a reality show
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| (Rockers in the jukebox)
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| I don’t know nothin' much about Beverly Hills
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| I don’t know about working for the system
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| I don’t know about life on Miami Beach
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| But know a little 'bout the streets
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| Just ask about Brooklyn
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| And how the ganja move in the street
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| And when your poor you can’t sleep
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| Ask mi 'bout Brooklyn
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| Where everyday another bites the dust
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| True so much gunshot a buss
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| Just ask mi 'bout Jamaica
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| Where life is gettin' harder
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| And if you ever come on yah
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| Ask mi 'bout Jamaica
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| Whether policeman and soldier
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| Nuh stop charge man fi murda so
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| Nuh bodda ask mi 'bout things that I don’t know
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| Ask mi 'bout reality and I will show
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| Show you just how di ghetto yutes flow
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| This is real life livin' a nuh puppet show
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| We don’t know about owning yachts and fancy cars
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| But where we come from those who show off becomes victims
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| 'Cause in the ghetto everyone is a superstar
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| And everyone is packin' heat
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| Just ask about Brooklyn
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| And how the ganja move in the street
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| And when your poor you can’t sleep
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| Ask mi 'bout Brooklyn
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| Where everyday another bites the dust
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| True so much gunshot a buss
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| Just ask mi 'bout Jamaica
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| Where life is gettin' harder
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| And if you ever come on yah
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| Ask mi 'bout Jamaica
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| Whether policeman and soldier
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| Nuh stop charge man fi murda
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| 'Cause it’s hard, yeah
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| (This life)
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| It’s not a pretty life
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| When yuh live in this a ghetto life, yeah
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| Upon di eastside
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| Ah, ah, 'cause a this a life, yeah
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| It’s not a pretty life
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| When yuh live in this a ghetto life, yeah
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| Ova on di westside-ide-ide
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| Just ask about Brooklyn
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| And how the ganja move in the street
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| And when your poor you can’t sleep
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| Ask mi 'bout Brooklyn
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| Where everyday another bites the dust
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| True so much gunshot a buss
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| Just ask mi 'bout Jamaica
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| Where life is gettin' harder
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| And if you ever come on yah
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| Ask mi 'bout Jamaica
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| Whether policeman and soldier
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| Nuh stop charge man fi murda |