| When brothers who was once real get a record deal
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| Their poetry and prose start switching like hoes
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| Those who was once skilled try to go commercial
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| While other imbeciles attempt to immerse you
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| In fictional narratives that ain’t that imperative
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| About things they never done and ways that they’ll never live
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| While I work hard to keep my 9 to the 5
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| Cause I never relied on kickin' rhymes to survive
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| Cause rappers start thinking about selling units
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| That’s when they fall victim to stale influence
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| Niggas be lying, cause they too lazy
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| To do for theyself, relying on true shady
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| Scheme for wealth, and plus they got a baby
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| Can’t even help self, their seed, or their lady
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| It’s crazy cause the same nigga chasing the dollar
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| Won’t even consider the lifestyle of a scholar
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| But to escape the squalor he’ll sell lala and wallabees
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| And open up his block’s 20th beauty parlor
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| He’s a sucker, infatuated with America
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| For Lucci all my children play theyself like Erica
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| I lyrically box brothers, who be on the box cutters
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| Can’t even nick, when I kick the one two
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| And a, son it’s magic, but tragic
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| The way you ride the Johnson
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| Like Bailey on the mic I’mma dust you with the daily
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| See a rhyme should be designed to make a brother use his mental
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| And force hip-hop to reach its fullest potential
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| So dummies come simple like Langston Hughes
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| I watch em kneel like Zora, and Tom like Cruise
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to live the life of a thug
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to rhyme about selling drugs
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to fit a commercial niche
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to call your sister no bitch
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to play the role of the fool
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| It’s OK, you can be dope and still finish school
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to glorify what’s wrong
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to sample RnB songs
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| All these half-pint niggas is followers
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| They could never measure up to a liter, they be the
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| Same sorry negros who try to convey
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| That it’s all good, nah brother, it’s just OK
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| Now on the mic like a leper I leave people petrified
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| Rip a rappers rep and pride, and tell him step aside
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| Brothers running while we rushing like Pushkin
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| Attack like a push pin, I push pins cross the paper
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| But D be dodging the dotted, making grants
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| But holding off at the hancock
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| Getting grants and building up a fan block
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| Of hardcore heads who gotta see their man rock
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| So should a sucker their step to oppose us
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| The crowd might stone him to death like Moses
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| Crew’ll kick a nigga smack dead in the ass crack
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| For trying to attack with weakass wisecracks
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| But me I just battle back with lyrical technique
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| More deadly than ass kick and letting a tech speak
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| The Capital, can’t cap Capital’s capital
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| So Capital gains and maintains a rapid flow
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| Of currency changing hands within the community
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| Now currently Polygram and Sony are suing me
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| But I passed the polygraph, these labels ain’t screwing me
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| D ain’t polygamous to polemic for politics
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| A sodomist’s gonorrhea would burn like Sodom and Gomorrah
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| So we ain’t a whore to companies for a quarter
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| Underground and independent, I’m a direct descendant
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| Of the first pioneer while suckers perspire fear
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| Hoping that they get re-signed for the next year
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| I stay at least a leg up on em like a pap-smear
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| Don’t even rap near, Capital D, you best stand clear
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to live a life a crime
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to be a sucker to rhyme
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to dance in your videos
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to chill with 2 dollar hoes
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to holler out keep it real
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| It’s OK, you can be dope and kick what you feel
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to wish that you was a star
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| It’s OK, all you got to do is be who you are
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| It’s OK, ya’ll
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| It’s OK
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| It’s OK, you ain’t got to live the life of a thug
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| You ain’t got to rhyme about selling drugs
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| You ain’t got to fit a commercial niche
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| And you ain’t got to call your sister no bitch
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| You ain’t got to play the role of the fool
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| You can be dope and still finish school
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| You ain’t got to glorify what’s wrong
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| And you ain’t got to sample RnB songs |