| I ask the questions that are beyond answers. |
| Catch me
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| Dancing with the stars like neon, Deion Sanders. |
| I’ve been
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| Gifted since I peed on Pampers. |
| This universe is a
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| Holographic illusion—do you believe in magic?
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| Me and my demons go at it like Larry Bird and Magic. |
| Should I
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| Carry birds through traffic or carry the weight of the world on my shoulders?
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| Now that’s a heavy burden to fathom
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| As my imagination expands and my thoughts travel
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| Through a stream of consciousness. |
| Life is but a dream, and it seems
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| We’ve been asleep so long, we can’t snap out of it
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| Talcum powder on my neck, fresh out the barber shop
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| Vintage kicks match my drip, I’m getting stopped a lot
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| For photo ops and various inquiries. |
| Anthony
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| Is gifted lyrically just like the symphony, but this ain’t ‘86
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| And my niggas, they lack sympathy, blast you ‘til
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| Infinity, wrap you up, no amenities. |
| If someone’s got it
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| Out for me, the galaxy has it in for me—what an oxy-
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| -moron. |
| There’s beauty in the symmetry. |
| Natural Elements
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| There’s divinity in the trinity. |
| I got that
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| Leroy glow, I illuminate spiritually like neon lights
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| Neon lights in the city that
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| Never sleeps, it’s beyond bright. |
| Yeah, it’s hella gen-
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| -trified, but we be aight
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| Yeah, we be aight
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| Yeah, we be aight
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| Under neon lights
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| NE-on days in the city that
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| Never sleeps, so you DOA. |
| Yeah, we dodging
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| Potholes, but we be OK
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| Yeah, we be OK
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| Yeah, we be OK
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| Under neon lights
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| St. Lucia to NY without missing a step
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| When I was L-Swift and I wasn’t Swigga just yet
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| Playing baseball and football, but I’m swimming the best
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| Swigga Phelps hit the L, and I’m winning as well
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| Was addicted to cigarettes but I quit ‘em, and, yes
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| I’m still addicted to cess, but I’m thinking correct
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| Hmm, I turn my addiction into a mission statement
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| To make Swigga Sativa a dispensary favorite
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| Yes, straight from NY like the Knicks and the Mets
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| I’m a Yankees Stadium and a Mitchell & Ness
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| That hit the Northeast Bronx, and I chill and reflect
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| When I was sixteen with sixteens spinning on Flex
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| No payola involved, he just heard it and played it
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| As you should do with this if you’re trying to murder your playlist
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| How New York supposed to sound, NE for the win
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| From the beginning to the end and rebuild it again
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| Within…
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| Neon lights in the city that
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| Never sleeps, it’s beyond bright. |
| Yeah, it’s hella gen-
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| -trified, but we be aight
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| Yeah, we be aight
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| Yeah, we be aight
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| Under neon lights
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| NE-on days in the city that
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| Never sleeps, so you DOA. |
| Yeah, we dodging
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| Potholes, but we be OK
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| Yeah, we be OK
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| Yeah, we be OK
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| Under neon lights
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| Lottery
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| Four-four, my number came, I almost fainted
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| Agu leaving this city graffiti-painted
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| Stick-up kid on the G-Train, nameplate belt buckle with the chain
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| Tongue-kissing your girl like I was Kane
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| Slick Rick with the eyepatch, jewelry, suit, and tie match
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| Pull a toolie out the Louis for beef that I catch
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| B-boy with gangster incentives watching renegades on life as
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| Black-and-white TVs with wire-hanger antennas
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| I’m ‘victing y’all. |
| Borough 13 Park, walk through the project halls
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| Hole in the wall, one exit, bullet holes in the lobby door
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| Pause tape demos. |
| Busy Bee with Lisa Lee
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| Rapping in a limo with some finely shaped dimples
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| Blunts smoked through gold fronts, watch their head blow
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| Voodoo tilted just like
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| Brooklyn, New Yorker for life. |
| Talk is contrived, draw
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| The knife under the neon lights, he ain’t gon' be alright
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| Neon lights in the city that
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| Never sleeps, it’s beyond bright. |
| Yeah, it’s hella gen-
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| -trified, but we be aight
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| Yeah, we be aight
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| Yeah, we be aight
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| Under neon lights
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| NE-on days in the city that
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| Never sleeps, so you DOA. |
| Yeah, we dodging
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| Potholes, but we be OK
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| Yeah, we be OK
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| Yeah, we be OK
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| Under neon lights |