| I come from nothing zip zero
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| The bottom where it get so
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| Difficult we tip toe through the stuggle
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| We hustle just to cut that check
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| The upper edge want another respect
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| You feel the neglect
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| Say wh-uh oh
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| Pound and respect
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| Youngsters so stressed
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| Watching them detects
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| Let me hear you say wh-uh oh
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| Ketchup and french fries
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| Chocolate milk and grilled cheeses
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| My grandmother’s kitchen
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| Statues of killed Jesus
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| Neighborhood felons with bulges from loaded pieces
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| Out the window hang in front of the problems
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| I can see this
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| So who’s the gangstas and corrupt polices
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| Who grew up the street with both sides you cuss and eat with
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| Yeah you caught between the friction
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| But addiction’s just a secret
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| We speak in codes, no one outside us can’t peep it
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| I went to church at sixteen looking at his coffin
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| His last thought was that his dope habit hadn’t caught him
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| I stared at the stain glass
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| Apologize for that abortion
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| My soul is not for scorching
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| I’ll adopt an orphan
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| When I grow up I promise honor on the church steps
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| On almost the same spot Percosets
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| It wasn’t on before the heroine schemes
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| 'Cause I’m a blue collar hood in these American dreams
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| That’s on my mama and my papa
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| Full of drama man it get worse
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| Nanna and my grampy started psycho wasn’t rehearsed
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| They birthed a motherfucking genius, is he cursed
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| Yes sir was extra extra extra nigga-ish
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| Bitch don’t kill my vibe
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| Chris don’t give no flies
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| Fuck you when love of your lives
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| Daddy died barely knew him, barely cried
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| Belly of the beast, belly full of hard times
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| Rhyme in new times crimes is usual times
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| I’m unsuitable for this fucked up design
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| Through the I’m gonna go to college talk
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| Did the hip-hopper walk, sip the alcohol
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| Fuck the law naw I don’t fuck with ya’ll
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| No need to discuss it all
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| Large balls in a small pond
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| Pebble from a rebel, uh
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| Brother here, he gon' try to mourn what’s been destined
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| Ignore no more books on my lessons
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| Listen
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| We come from nothing zip zero
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| This is where we come from
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| My grandma and my mama smoke so much they got one lung
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| My man just got three years in jail
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| He only had one gun
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| His BM got another man changing his daughter bum bum
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| When your eyes are full of tears
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| Pouring molly in your beers
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| And you party every year
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| 'Cause it’s part of your career
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| And you hardly open your mind
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| 'Cause you blinded by them parasites
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| Using drugs and alcohol adding strife to your damaged life
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| Me I must survive my block was hotter than lava
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| As a minor I barely see my father so what’s the karma
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| 'Cause we never kicked or pitched a ball
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| Pissed I’m missing my dogs
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| The pedophile that lived upstairs from me was scary as all
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| Hell is what we going through
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| Let me get a loan or two
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| I’ll pay you back when I get my taxes
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| My rent is overdue
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| I represent the struggle, the poor and the misfortunate
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| So you can keep the bottles, them crumbs and all them whores |