| Yo, yo I will not stop runnin''till I’m winning the race
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| I can’t live with myself being in second place
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| Ay yo, here’s a little story, something for your ear
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| Like the new millennium version of Paul Revere
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| Except this ain’t fiction, this is real life here
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| I be 30 years old and even lasting a year
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| Yeah I made my mistakes, yeah I paid my dues
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| Hated by blacks, made enemies with jews
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| I was 7 years ahead of my time in '92
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| I said things that wasn’t accepted 'till '99
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| It’s awful, I don’t care about the past no more
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| I don’t wanna be rich, trust me, I’d rather be poor
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| Now think about it, known as how I never shown my face
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| I don’t really want fame, I just want my space
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| Yeah, I had hard times like Run-DMC
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| But actually I feel pretty blessed just to be me
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| I never seen the penitentiary
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| I’ve been shook since I seen the? |
| kid in Penitentiary 3?
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| They say I should have been more, I should have been great
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| Like I’m washed up now, like it’s already too late
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| I can feel all the hatred when I walk in the place
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| But y’all are too scared to say shit to my face, it’s
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| Midnight (repeated several times)
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| I’ll come for you
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| When the clock strikes midnight
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| I’ll come for you
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| Ready for hell, ready for war
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| Yeah, it’s nice to be loved but I like being hated more
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| All the sudden magazines give me good reviews
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| It used to be my name on the equal bad news
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| All the? |
| that I’m a genius, all the? |
| I’m bright
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| Like I just now became intelligent overnight
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| I be as 1990 grimey as I could be And finally society can see admiring me And finally dirty dirty boy, dirty b Wordy wordy free, dirty boy
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| Yeah that’s me My father specialist 5th class Thornburn John A A Vietnam war hero, green berret
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| Thaught me how to shoot guns and thaught me how to fight
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| Thaught to left hooking, thaught to uppercut with the right
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| Thaught me all about bitches, they can ruin your life
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| Like in his prime, look what happened to I and Mike
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| People wonder what it’s like and how is to be me The most underrated in hip hop history
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| Think I care if you disagree?
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| You ain’t got no song out
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| And right now you’re busy listenin’me |