| Crown Jewel
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| Look
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| Whatever happened to you back then
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| Let it stay in the past
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| You keep relivin' it and replayin' it in your mind
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| Your life is gonna be miserable and life ain’t made to be miserable
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| Life is meant for you to be great
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| Leave that shit behind you and move forward
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| Lets get it, my nigga
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| I don’t wanna sound mad I feel marvelous
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| Running through all of these pills like I’m a pharmacist
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| I told God I don’t wanna be a bother
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| Just let me know how you leave a four year old fatherless
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| Chasing a high with my face to the sky
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| Still wondering why I can’t get a reply
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| Mad that I can’t cry, mind getting confused
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| Since he won’t say a word to me, I figured I’d just ask you
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| What up, pop? |
| Ya baby boy is all grown
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| I can’t complain about a thing 'cause this is all I’ve ever known
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| But sometimes I get jealous seeing kids with they dads
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| In a few years I’ll be the same age you was when you passed
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| Sometimes I get sad and sometimes I get mad
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| Or push my feelings deep down and cover it up with a laugh
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| I could blame you for every problem that I’ve ever had
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| But somewhere inside I know that this was part of God’s path
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| But still, where was my dad to teach me how to ride a bike?
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| Where was you at to teach me how to win a fight?
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| I felt alone everyday through the night
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| 'Cause I been searching for a father figure all of my life
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| I had to learn from a woman how to be a man
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| And she did a great job but some things she couldn’t understand
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| I needed your guidance grab me by the hand for direction
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| All my life I wanted to ask you this question, pop
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Why did you leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| How could you leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Why did you leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone
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| Every evening I have a by myself meeting
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| First off, I know you did your best with what you was given
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| I never held no resentments, you already forgiven
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| From the date of my birth to all them visits in prison
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| You the reason I’m living
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| Probably the strongest woman I know
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| Put me in private school, took us out the hood
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| You was raising me different from you that I understood
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| Single mother with her own home, shit was amazing
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| But when you relapsed that snatched my security blanket
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| Now we back in the projects, everyday was defeat
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| I was just becoming a man, you was running the street
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| The pain, the shame, the guilt, it hurt so deep
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| And the fact that I couldn’t help you hurt so much I couldn’t eat
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| Couldn’t sleep, didn’t know what to do
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| You went away to rehab and I got high like you, uh
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| All those nights I just needed my mother
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| And while you were gone I would sit up and wonder
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Why did you leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| How could you leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Why did you leave me alone?
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| You merely adopted the dark
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| I was born in it
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| No one to guide me had to find myself
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| No sisters no brothers grew up by myself
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| Single mother working, I was home by myself
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| They locked me up, threw me in the box by myself
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| Now I done seen the isolation crush plenty of men
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| And I done lost so many times, you’d think I hated to win
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| But I adapted to the darkness and I made it my friend
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| Made an outlet for my aggression and named it Nems
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| See, me? |
| I rather joke and laugh, lighten up the pace
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| But Nems ain’t with the talking, he’ll just punch you in your face
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| All that anger and insecurity turned into hate
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| And I gotta to conquer all these demons if I wanna be great
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| I just be in the crib, I don’t party with the fake
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| Industry type motherfuckers that couldn’t relate
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| I might show up late, walk inside show my face
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| Then leave without saying nothing like that’s all I can take
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| Fuck it
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Would you just leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Could you just leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, leave me alone
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| Why can’t you leave me alone?
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| Leave me alone, catch me in the corner not speakin'
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| Catch me in the corner not speakin'
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| Catch me in the corner not speakin'
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| Catch me in the corner not speakin'
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| Catch me in the corner not speakin'
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| Fuck Ya Life
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| Hahahahaha, this nigga ill, yo, this nigga’s ill
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| See, I’m from Detroit, born and raised
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| So when you was up here for the first half hour
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| You know, for the first half hour of however long you been up here
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| You was like, «Nigga, nigga, nigga» and I’m lookin' at you like
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| «He gotta be maybe Puerto Rican», 'cause I don’t understand
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| Nah, I already looked at him and shit, he’s Latino
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| Somethin' to do with it
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| But when you see him, you may not, people don’t see that initially,
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| so I get the concern
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| Bein' from Detroit, we don’t have a bunch of different cultures
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| But you see, once he opened his mouth
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| Uh-huh
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| That’s Latino |