| I’m home for good
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| 'll be a shootout, they try to summon me back
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| Take a hint, strive for what you wanna get
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| Cuz if it’s blood, that they want
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| Then it’s blood, what they gotta get
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| The year of '88, Special Ed & Big Daddy Kane
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| Momma had two jobs, and got there whether snow, sleet or rain
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| Thank you for sending me to church, with my cousins Glendall & Dame
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| Who ever thought, I’d give you so much pain
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| From on the blocks styling, to in & out of Riker’s Island
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| Where I stay in the box, it wasn’t more than an idea
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| I had to cheat my options, at the same time
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| The penal changed my life
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| Taught me how your wife can turn crooked
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| Puerto Ricans taught me how the coke sizzle when you cook it
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| First bid, all the way upstate, pressure from the gate
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| Inmates, scheaming on my thirty five pounds
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| Police looking to put one in your back
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| And to catch you out of bounds, man, man, come on
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| The year is '96
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| Back on the block hood, looking to get rich
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| You bitch ass police told all by snitch
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| Younger words went to the feds
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| This year, we lost alotta track heads
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| And as time went on
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| I’m taught to teach when the dark read
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| Man, listen, can tell you about some hard times
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| I’ll tell you about some hard crimes
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| My first daughter already three
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| And on my second felony, I was being found guilty
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| Back up north, stressed out on the yard
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| On lowback, cuz I had an asshole foot on the back
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| But this time it was a lot different
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| No sweatsuits or Reebok classics
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| I had to rob and poke these bastards
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| Muthafucka…
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| The year of 20−04
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| And I ain’t been back in a minute, hoe
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| Bitch ass slow down on crime
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| Some say I got a more positive mind
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| But that ain’t what it is
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| Learned how to do the crime the quiet way
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| The ski-mask way, this dedicated
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| To the memories of Cooper, Damian Faye
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| K-Barge, Jamaican Shawn
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| Tank, and the god Inf
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| And the moral of the story is this
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| Though we all gon' plead the fifth
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| But you can be whatever you is
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| You live it, but nobody take none from you
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| If you work so hard to gain it |