| Don’t forget to do that thing for your mother Roosevelt!
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| Yeah yeah yeah, alright, alright
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| Running upon the jagged edge, FUCK, THE ROUGH LIFE
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| when you have to gain much respect
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| As an individual keepin negativity minimum
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| requires havin courage respect him his intellect
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| so you gotta be on THAT specific type of SET
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| Like Roosevelt, especially when your cards are dealt
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| You see me, frankly, I don’t give a hoot
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| about the blanks you shoot out of your mental bank see
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| I like Roosevelt, cause he ain’t booty
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| Moody maybe, baby you’re mad cause he smashed up your cutie
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| Playin the courts, takin the loss, to wherever
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| some clever college edu-ma-cated individual
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| With financial status JUST to mess what the BANK stated
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| Girls love it, and you can’t look above it you hate it Peeped his method, you laid, you waited
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| You never ever contemplated if I pull a automatic
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| will I leave the artillery out or just flight
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| Check in the night, you’re out to snipe, my man
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| you can’t stand upon sight of him
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| Out to fatally ignite him
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| Roosevelt felt staticky, he knew things were shady
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| Grady had, Bradley’s uzi, but he always packed a clip or two
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| belongin to a nickel-plated .380
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| Givin off the impression of a clever nerd
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| Never was a suspect when a homicide occured, in the suburbs
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| He was referred, to as a respectable intellectual
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| Highly acceptable rebel from the ghetto on the level
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| of an intelligent rapper, create him just like Giupetto
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| The aggresive type, and he’s not your puppet
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| Stickin quickin enough to pull a skeezer with repetition
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| after takin aim and buckin and blowin the smoke away
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| then tuckin and jettin home, hopin that no stunts are stuck in it He needs sleep, for eight o’clock class
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| so as fast as he crash, he might last
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| for six hours of bed passed, cause Roosevelt’s a scholar
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| Ivy league material, cully-head kid with BRAINPOWER
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| Six foot two, and we wear the same size shoe
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| He drinks brew, and he runs with my crew, my herd
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| on a continuous basis, in the same, places
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| Rollin out five deep, but it’s only four faces
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| So I don’t, give a two, drip-drops about, what those have felt
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| And if I die (and if he die) and if I die (and if he DIEEEEEEEE)
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| And if I die it’s because of my man Roosevelt
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| Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt Franklin
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| Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt Franklin, Roosevelt Franklin
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| Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt Franklin
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| Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt Franklin, Roosevelt Franklin
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| Ooooooooooooh I’m so confuuuuuuuuused. |
| DAMN, IT HURTS!
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| People persist to treat me like dirt
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| I don’t sleep at night, time cause dimes I DON’T DROP
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| I sling and clockers cease
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| Commanders in Chiefs when I pop rocks
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| Dig deep within, you might recognize me
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| I’m the one with the bloodshot eyes
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| Hot rays of sun, beat down upon my face as if I’ll melt bacon
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| Why the hell my mother named me Roosevelt Franklin?
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| I. don’t. |
| know, so I strive to gain
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| only the Lord knows my eyes have seen the pain
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| Tears comin down my cheeks like rain
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| I was abused, they stripped the mind for amusement
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| Now I walk the path of ORGANIZED KONFUSION
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| But it’s only a temporary formality
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| Cause my man Scott turns illusion into reality
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| A loaf of bread (a loaf of bread), a stick of butter
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| Somebody’s mother lies, dead in the gutter
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| So I move QUICK FAST, to get past quickly
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| Swiftly, at last, cops can’t get WITH ME
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| Can’t hit me, nah never I’m TOO NIFTY, people SHITTIN ME
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| Products in the projects so I pump FIFTIES
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| in soda cans so dogs won’t SNIFF ME
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| I’m takin the proper precautions (yeah)
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| Cause once my mother told me she was gonna get an abortion
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| I can’t keep track. |
| of the fluctuation. |
| of time
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| Hallucinogenics keep, abusin my mind
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| Gotta pick up, gotta pick up, gotta pick up, gotta pick up more product, gotta move, gotta go I can’t get stuck; |
| not here
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| Not if I wanna become Roosevelt Franklin the employee of the year
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| I wear baseball caps over my eyes so you can’t make out
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| me at night when I’m standin on the corner eatin Chinese takeout
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| damn I almost forgot, yo yo I have to break out
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| Yo don’t forget your moms told you to get that stuff
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| A loaf of bread, a stick of butter, container of milk
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| A loaf of bread (a loaf of bread) a stick of butter
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| (stick of butter), umm. |
| container of milk (container of milk) |