| The great Pharoahe Monch, yo
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| Yes, sir, what up, P?
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| The great Styles P, the ghost
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| One, two
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| I say open the door and let me in
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| Teach us all, preach ya sins
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| Turn the cheek, let it slide
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| Give me five on the black hand side
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| The black hand side, oh
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| The black hand side, oh
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| The black hand side, oh
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| Give me five on the black hand side (Give me five, brother)
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| I’ll tell you what I see through the black man’s eyes (Look at me)
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| Fly chick, in the Cadillac, a black man ride (Ride)
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| But every different day, a different black man die (Damn)
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| Shorty momma tripping off of crack, mad high (You know)
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| Now he watching TV, loving the bad guy (You know)
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| Piss-poor with a Welfare check, he know he African (Pssss)
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| 'Cause he ain’t get help there yet (No help)
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| Now he put down his knapsack, got a crack pack
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| You don’t overstand if your vision ain’t abstract
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| (You don’t overstand)
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| Me and the projects, a lot of us is lab rats
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| Voted for Obama, hoping he wouldn’t have that
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| (Don't have that, brother)
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| Now I can tell you that I felt hell (I felt it)
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| I still remember how a cell smell (I still remember the stench)
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| I still remember how the pigs act
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| Family crying up on the V.I., I couldn’t dig that
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| Open the door and teach us all
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| Pass a blunt around, hoping that it reach us all
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| Now give me five on the black hand side (Give me five, bro)
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| Ghost and Pharoahe Monch, watch the black man rise (Yep)
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| I say open the door and let me in
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| Teach us all, preach ya sins
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| Turn the cheek, let it slide
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| Give me five on the black hand side
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| The black hand side, oh (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| The black hand side (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| The black hand side, oh
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| Pharoahe’s a Navajo chief, the way I’m making it rain
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| But never for a stripper with emotional pain
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| You wouldn’t despite the system nourishment for the brain
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| 'Cause rain, sea plus soil equal fruits and grains
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| My hood told a nigga: keep it simple and plain
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| So let me explain the game
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| Break it down a couple levels like Tetris
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| These young’uns kill they own blood for a necklace (Gimme that)
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| Leave slumped over the wheel of your Lexus
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| Smoke kush, wake up and eat breakfast
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| What the fuck he expect?
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| A generation overly obsessed with mobsters
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| Our revolutionaries won Grammys and Oscars
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| Impostors, fake auras or weak chakras
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| Makin' a mockery of the music to be pop stars
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| And they say I’m insane
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| Because I see the remains of the whips and the chains
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| In my hood where it ain’t all good
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| Peep the pain of a single mother, she struggling
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| Young child slain, give me five on the black hand side
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| Let’s maintain like it’s Soul Train
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| And keep it movin' together, I’m saying
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| I say open the door and let me in
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| Teach us all, preach ya sins
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| Turn the cheek, let it slide
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| Give me five on the black hand side
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| The black hand side, oh (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| The black hand side (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| The black hand side, oh
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| Yeah, (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| Styles P (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| Uh-huh, Pharoahe Monch (Give me five, bruh, give me five)
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| Yeah, uh-huh (Give me five, bruh, give me five) |