| From chains to whips
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| To chains and whips
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| Hopped off the slave ships into the fly kicks
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| Floss our ice, gettin' paper
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| All my niggas want paper
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| We just gotta get paper
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| (We bought your American Dream
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| The negro epidemic, black cream)
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| Black cream
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| Dear Oprah Winfrey
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| I know misogyny
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| Is rampant in our music and it pains you severely
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| But Dear Ms. Billion Dollar Income
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| Hear me
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| The path to success isn’t merely:
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| Respect self, sincerely, remember Celie?
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| Slaved after mister
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| And when she disobeyed then he whipped her
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| Well we was picked up, broke down, whipped up
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| Said, «Thanks» to master when he tipped us
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| Upon tree, lift us
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| Noose as a necktie
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| Excuses, I guess I
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| Use cause I refuse to let my
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| Ego be abused by the stereotype
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| That blacks just might be better off as have nots
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| Than to have cops, harass us
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| Poor Jacqueline Onassis
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| Husband gunned down, supporting our black asses
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| We as poor folks frown upon a brother’s success
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| The more he has, then we have less
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| And we have yet, been able to afford
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| Without buying the store
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| Instead of repair, get all the white Airs
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| Force 1/one to look in the mirror
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| And be ashamed as the truth appears
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| Nigga, negro, Afro, hero
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| To the youth who want to rhyme for deniro
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| And shine like them joints in the earlobes
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| The pain I’ve seen
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| Watchin' my people spend they black cream
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| (Reks)
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| From chains to whips
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| To chains and whips
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| Hopped off the slave ships into the fly kicks
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| Floss our ice, gettin' paper
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| All my niggas want paper
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| We just gotta get paper
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| (We bought your American Dream
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| The negro epidemic, black cream)
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| Black cream
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| Everybody ain’t Kanye West lord
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| I tell the kids, get a dream you can afford
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| But kids want stunts, smoke blunts and impress broads
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| Sip on syrup cause they idol got his cup
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| What this does
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| Is make it harder to give a fuck
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| The impulse
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| To ball got Cosby pissed off
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| That «buck that bought the bottle
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| Coulda struck the lotto»
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| To invest in scratch tickets is a fucked up motto
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| Dress our autos, barely dress our kids
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| Some want Tims, but he gon' wait
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| Daddy need new rims
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| Damn
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| Did I write that right?
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| Question is
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| Are you gonna right that wrong?
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| Put my mic back on
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| Free speech is tell a nigga 'bout a nigga’s self
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| You poor knowledge even if you got dumb wealth
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| Poor knowledge?
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| Dumb wealth?
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| All the money in the world, your black ass can’t spell help
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| Chains and whips to chains and whips
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| Right into the latest kicks
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| And we
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| Floss our ice
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| Brush off haters
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| Black man’s plight
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| Lusting paper
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| (We just gonna get paper)
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| We bought your American dream
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| The negro epidemic, black cream
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| (Black cream)
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| «Black cream»
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| Heeeey
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| Stay on your grind baby
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| Brush off the haters
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| Remain a player
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| Gettin' this paper
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| Black cream, yeeeeah
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| Black cream, yeeeeah
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| Gettin' this paper
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| Gettin' this paper
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| Black cream
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| Big Shug. |
| Reks. |
| This is how we get down man
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| Cats is fightin' for money out there
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| We gotta keep it movin' man. |
| One way or the other. |
| I’m out |