| Yo, yeah
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| It’s that— (Hit-Boy)
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| It’s that—
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah
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| Yeah, yeah
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| It’s the N-A-S, yes
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| I wake up every morning, thinkin' what we gonna do today?
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| (What we gonna do today?)
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| There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)
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| To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
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| To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
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| To maintain in the… check me out, listen
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| Uh, life’s a gamble, although the stakes are heightened, I can handle
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| Any darkness that tries to penetrate, my light is ample
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| Set the right example
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| My dark dreams are divine
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| I live life on this earth to complete what’s assigned
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| My mission given
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| I was birthed the same year as It Was Written
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| I been fast to intermittent to strengthen my intuition
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| But fuck, and sometimes, shit, you run out of luck
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| But how my dice roll from Domino’s to Mastro’s
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| To completing life goals, my price rolls
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| As soon as I decided to never ever be misguided
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| I know niggas that’s indicted from the shit they confided
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| With they best friends until they seen the paper we’re writin'
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| Life’s a bitch, disconnection is the price of bliss
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| Though elation often leaves the paths of righteousness
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| I confess, a nigga woke up feeling blessed
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| No stress, with the freedom to express, but you was dead
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| I wake up every morning, thinkin' what I’m bout to do today?
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| (What I’m bout to do today?)
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| There’s gotta be a better way
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| To maintain the price of fame, life is like a dice game
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| Hey hey hey, life is like a dice game (Yeah, yeah)
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| Hey hey, hey hey hey hey (You know what I’m sayin'?)
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| Life is like you know what I’m sayin a dice game
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| I don’t gamble, you dig what I’m sayin'?
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| I’d rather spend my money on stuff you know
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| That pleasures me my pleasure you know?
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| Started out in mama’s house
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| Makin five hundred a week, thinkin' bout dropping out
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| Sold dope in front of my brother but he a doctor now
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| Fuck this weed shit, show me what that rock about
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| Whip gang, I got a thing for cooking crack mane
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| Fuckin' I make it back mane
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| Feds with the IRS on me, they sent the text mane
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| Streets code, ain’t nothing cut though like the rap game
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| Do you wanna be in it wanna be sinnin'
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| Fuck niggas wanna be winnin'
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| I said fuck being famous from the beginning
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| Big rabbit Instagram on the for posting pictures
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| I wake up every morning, thinkin' what I’m gonna do today?
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| (Do today?)
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| There’s gotta be a better way
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| To keep changing the price of cane, life is like a dice game
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| I wake up, hit the collar, think of getting something new today (Something new
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| today?)
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| Aston Martin blue today, these niggas trippin' so I ride with that thing
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| I wake up every morning, thinkin' what we gonna do today?
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| (What we gonna do today?)
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| There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)
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| To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
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| To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
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| I never knock a brother, I’m anti-jail for real
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| Smooth criminal skill, locked in a human flesh shield
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| Watchin' niggas get rich beside me
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| Pushin' a 5 B-Y, me up in the passenger seat
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| But I see me as Hallie Selassie in my kingdom
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| Sippin' Asti Spumante, driftin', reality kicks in
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| I need the papes to start clickin'
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| Got a connect out in Richmond
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| And e’ry nigga in the fam will pitch in
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| It’s on, word is bond
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| That’s my name, big Nas, all-wise to civilize
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| From the Northern Hemisphere of the earth
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| Peace to my son and thanks to the birth
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| Of Destiny, that’s her name
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| It’s goin' on, you know my name
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| Big Nas in the house, y’all, on the freestyle tip
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| When I finish this shit, it’s sure to be a hit
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| This original recording hit the street 'round '93
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| Was just the leak, the verse was incomplete
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| Reconstructed the beat so we can fuck up the street
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| Back to the future, patch up the bloopers
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| Match up the cadence with the back in the day shit
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| A blast when Nasty Nas was savvier
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| Don’t act surprised
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| This ain’t for advertise or showing off I blast for mine
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| Life is a dice roll, there’s money on the ground
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| What’s gon' happen is gon' happen is a gamble all around
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| I wake up every morning, thinkin' what we gonna do today?
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| (What we gonna do today?)
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| There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)
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| To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game (Yeah)
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| To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
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| Life is like a dice game |