| I still hustle til' the sun come up
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| I’m from Harlem so my ones still up, it’s a cold winter
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| I’m selling dope, getting bundles off
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| Same block we got money, we had rumbles off
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| Back then, they used to wish me well
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| But they ain’t know I used to wish as well
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| I was stealing quarters out the wishing well
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| It was real back then, I was a different male
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| Bitches wouldn’t fuck me cuz I used to kiss and tell
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| You damn right I did it my nigga
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| Use to call the homies like «Yo, I hit it my nigga»
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| I’m Nino Man, you know these hoes be winning my nigga
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| She wanna count money but no, I shouldn’t my nigga
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| I was making money off the block like (?)
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| Always kept a burner in the building where the mail be
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| Mail man asked where I get it, he like «tell me»
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| I’m like «nigga, please, just tell me when I get mail, B»
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| If you from the streets, real niggas heard you
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| Came from the sewer like a Ninja Turtle
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| Ya’ll know Nino Man always speak the realist
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| But I’ma let the big bro, Freeway kill this
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| Ex drug dealers, from Bandles to Villas
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| They seen a pick, they wonder what the deal is
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| They said I need a grip, they said «it's no sweat
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| You bomb Funk Flex and stay next to them 5 peelers»
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| Check my credentials, 100 million later, joint venture the same
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| Label was Al-Qaeda
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| From the benches to world stardom, my crew made it
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| No, we can’t go cuz we so soulful like Miles Davis
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| Down the way, I sold rocks to my neighbors
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| Now, I’ma rockstar, repped the ROC on stages
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| Had to switch up the cadence to stack up my wages
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| It’s a given, need that college tuition for the babies
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| On a daily, had 3 wings, fried rice and gravy
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| Used to push squadders, now we ride Mercedes
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| Used to rhyme for free but now, ya’ll gotta pay me
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| Boy, I’m straight stuntin'; |
| Kayslay me
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| Haters wanna lay me, mad cuz the radio play me
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| These people wanna DOA me
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| That’s why I keep the jammy everywhere I go
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| Coming for them grammy’s like my nigga from Chicago
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| It’s your chance, better go hard as I go
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| Nice with the hands, hit ya’ll niggas wit a combo
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| Still knocking niggas off their high horse; |
| Tonto
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| I’m Roc Nation’s muscle, head honcho
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| We vacate at Brussels; |
| eat Waffles
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| We law low in the Bay cuz we Mobsters, nigga |