| Recognize, realize, and analyze
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| Born in the place they call gangsta
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| Hawthorne, Californ-I-A
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| All the way to Philidelphia, PA
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| Pass gall project, Richard
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| Around the corner from the bank, the steady B robbed
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| Respect the bandana
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| Banana clip in the hammer, smoking Joe Frazier
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| Street lights, street fights, three strikes
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| Khakis and street nights, what it look like?
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| Gambling, three dice, see the blue and red lights
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| Shootout with police like free Ice Mike
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| Handcuffed in the back seat of the car
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| I swear to god, life shouldn’t be so hard
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| S O S, same old shit, it never fails
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| A white man’s heaven is a black man’s hell
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| From gutter to gutter, hood to hood like
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| Philly to L.A., we living the hood life
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| From the days of getting the hood white
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| To nowadays we living the good life
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| Gangsta living, a gangsta cinema-a
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| Gangsta living, we can’t pretend for ya
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| Gangsta living, a gangsta cinema-a
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| You get out of line, we putting an end to ya
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| Gangsta cinema, in your ass like an enema
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| If I send for ya, homies’ll disfigure ya
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| Philly Philly for really, I’m from the end where a nigga will put an end to
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| your heart
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| Cold as december bruh
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| K clicks leave whole cliques dismembered, bruh
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| Fry your eggs and scrambled
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| The candle’s how they remember ya
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| Collie, teeny-boppers on they bullshit
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| Ain’t got a full deck but he got a full clip
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| RIP Eazy E, but shit is ruthless
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| Home of Montell Jordan, this is how we do this
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| Preachers of LA getting paid out the pulpit
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| (Lord forgive me), had to sneak that in on some cool shit
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| Realize that real eyes booked the hatred that fueled this congregation
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| Is clueless, what I’m saying is useless
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| Mexican and blacks need to make truces
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| Wisdom gang recruitment, this a new movement
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| From gutter to gutter, hood to hood like
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| Philly to L.A., we living the hood life
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| From the days of getting the hood white
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| To nowadays we living the good life
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| Gangsta living, a gangsta cinema-a
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| Gangsta living, we can’t pretend for ya
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| Gangsta living, a gangsta cinema-a
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| You get out of line, we putting an end to ya
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| Know where to find me
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| Look up in the sky, probably on that plane
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| Headed to the place you call gangsta
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| Where motherfuckers pack a burner
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| And niggas take shots, no chaser
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| It’s on ‘til the morning, walking through Philly like I’m back home
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| House shoes on, bring the grip like a python
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| In the projects where fifth graders act grown
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| 211 stick ups, killed over fake stones
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| Moms screamed «Why?», killer fled unknown
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| Mad at the pawn shop and scared of alarm clocks
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| Waking up in cold sweats like army vets
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| Feeling down at his worst, liquor got him at his best
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| Shots blew out his chest, pill popper, X Man
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| Left the crime scene marvelous
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| Still remain anonymous
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| Cops couldn’t catch up to him, they slow up
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| Finally got away, oh yeah nigga, they po' up
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| ‘Til the cops got important tip
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| Big mouth, nigga snitched, sent ‘em all on a trip
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| Black judge, black D. A
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| White public pretender, guess they still hang niggas
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| Uh, gangsta cinema
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| ScHoolboy Q
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| From gutter to gutter, hood to hood like
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| Philly to L.A., we living the hood life
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| From the days of getting the hood white
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| To nowadays we living the good life
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| Gangsta living, a gangsta cinema-a |