| They used to act all active and lawless
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| They used to live like bachelors balding
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| All actresses hit menopause and
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| Rappers will die of natural causes
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| They’re gonna get hip fractures from falling
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| They’re gonna need viagra and bypasses
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| They’re gonna wait for their grandkids to call them
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| Rappers will die of natural causes
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| Hip hop’s middle aged
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| The first rappers started young as Lil' Wayne
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| It’s been three decades since the rhythm came
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| Original rappers are entering their brittle stage
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| The average black man’s life span
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| Is like three fifths that of a white man
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| He never put five grand in a life plan
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| So he can’t afford to fall cause he might land
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| In a clinic where the nurse is the night man
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| They’re to sign in visitors and wipe ass
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| His record label never told him 'bout the flight plan
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| They shot videos on beaches with white sand
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| They say the game is for young guys
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| For the hungry, unshaved and the unsigned
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| They get a little bit of media sunshine
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| But they only see you how you were one time
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| And even now, rap is older than it’s ever been
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| And young warriors develop into veterans
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| Pure phase with the gray hair peppered in
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| Setting reminders to take their medicine
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| They used to act all active and lawless
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| They used to live like bachelors balding
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| All actresses hit menopause and
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| Rappers will die of natural causes
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| They’re gonna get hip fractures from falling
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| They’re gonna need viagra and bypasses
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| They’re gonna wait for their grandkids to call them
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| Rappers will die of natural causes
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| Every hall of fame induction’s ruined
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| Cause we wait for VH1 to do it
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| Like they know the fly shit coast to coast
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| When they only recognize who sold the most
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| And to the unsung trend setters
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| Viacom says 'I guess you shoulda did better'
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| Reinforce a game full of ugliness
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| Cause they didn’t know the name, but the publicist
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| And local fame is equated to nothingness
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| Unless the things that you made for the club were hits
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| Because they took rhymes serious
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| Most of my heroes will die penniless
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| And while they’re alive and ruined by pain
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| Rap fans shall not Google thy name
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| The day you die, people share your music by AIM
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| That’s postmortem internet eulogized fame
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| They used to act all active and lawless
|
| They used to live like bachelors balding
|
| All actresses hit menopause and
|
| Rappers will die of natural causes
|
| They’re gonna get hip fractures from falling
|
| They’re gonna need viagra and bypasses
|
| They’re gonna wait for their grandkids to call them
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| Rappers will die of natural causes |