| Long money looked so short from 100 feet out
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| And counting down from 99 make you wanna reroute
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| 98 will test your patience and all that you 'bout
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| 97, 96, 95, hit a switch, like get a ride, hit a lick, fuck walking with time
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| Time will tell and mine will tell that we won 'fore we died
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| Or at least that’s what they sell us and all of us buy
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| Feeling sorry for our mothers was all they replied
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| Like «hurry up and buy», and shots fly in response
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| Hurry up and die is what they kinda really want
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| Drop 5 in the front, or $ 4.99, new neighbors got these beers even higher
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| Fear the replier, 'cause shots fly in response and all you get to hear is the
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| choir
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| The talk’s heinous but it’s here to inspire
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| The motive, is all the above, it reads like a coroner’s love
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| And nobody’s better, we all need a plug
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| Introductions turn to falling in love, let’s keep it all of a buck
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| Nobody’s better B, all of you suck
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| But back, to the lecture at hand
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| Going hand over fist, hand on a flip, no step on the plans
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| You outside?, no step on the plants, that’s what the difference be
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| And intuition be all we want as a centerpiece
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| Center me as being, the minority that all the majority speaking thru
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| And speaking to you
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| Was a short money plan that turned into more
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| Bet it all took a turn when we heard the allure
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| It’s just the life, of solemnly swearing over approaches
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| And leaning on a Beamer was all they needed to coach us
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| Suited up for this AAU, and may their stoops
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| Be protected as ever when that pay day loops
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| It comes around with a high and a low, a give and a take
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| They listen in for the breaks like finding a hole
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| You dip from the jakes and find your way home
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| My man went to the isle and caught the finest C. O
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| The bitch amazing, well according to him when we would kick it on the V. I
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| I’m hoping they transfer him and he kick it with Mumia
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| Word to Destiny’s pops, we was taught that Heaven do watch
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| And police talk with they heckler and koch
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| I heard the latter, as well as my man saying
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| That he campaigning to catch a Milly if soda ever do rock
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| I wanted to put it all on a record or put it all on a screen
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| Or 2 for 1 like I was selling tops
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| One of my heroes is Spike, and another one is Jada
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| So baby I still want head in the drop
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| Love is love, love us for whoever we are
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| And if you never stood for that then we could be never be y’all
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| Learned how to stand tall when I was seated with my pops in the drop
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| And he was preaching how to be what y’all not
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| 'cause dude I was with pops every day, and when I wasn’t
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| He called my mother’s crib either way and the discussions
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| Was drowning out the shit in the hallway
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| And the staircase was adjacent to our front doorway
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| So for that talk to drown out what the hall say
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| Means that it was louder than what the liquor store made
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| Raised by a goon who saw the bloom in his off spring
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| Thuggin' it, talcum on his middle finger, Malcom on his trigger finger
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| Cutting up and shooting out
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| But paused from 3 to 4 or whenever school was out
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| Know that it’s Brooklyn forever son you already know
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| You stab me I leak Henny like I said befoe'
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| So, you do me dirty I still won, rap like steel drums
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| Rappers I feels none, except for Griselda
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| Red carpet to the yellow tape what they sells us
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| And they say that the money got us indebted to failures
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| It’s tricky ain’t it?, sitting and waiting while the shit is explained
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| Short money never came with a residual frame and…
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| Long money wasn’t nothing that they taught us right?
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| Did whatever they could do to keep it from us right?
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| Said it take too long to count it and get on it right?
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| They put it far enough away from us to want it right?
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| Long money wasn’t nothing that they taught us right?
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| Did whatever they could do to keep it from us right?
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| Said it take too long to count it and get on it right?
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| They put it far enough away from us to want it right? |