| Shameless stuff for you to see
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| What your life could truly be
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| And if you’re really from the streets
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| Spit that ghetto poetry
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| Cause you’re a shining star
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| Cause you’re a shining star
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| No matter who you are
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| No matter who you are
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| And never fail to see
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| Never fail to see
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| The real G-A-M-E
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| Back in the day I used to smoke a blunt and pray before I got on the stage
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| And I was opening up for N.W.A
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| And I remember how it all began
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| I used to steal cars from Haywood, take them back to East Oakland
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| Till Short Dawg picked me up from high school
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| I was just a little nigga with heart, and uncle Short was hella cool
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| Took me to the studio, I met the homie Richie Rich
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| And all the way there people waved with their Caddy and screamed biatch
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| That moment was frozen in time
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| And I got memories like that embedded deep in my mind
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| Cause that’s when something clicked in my head and said this is you
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| The whips, money lifestyle, women, it’s all true
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| I went to sleep that night and dreamt I was a rap star
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| Woke up and wrote 187 Proof and started going hard
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| But the haters was hating, on the level of the devil
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| Then the riots kicked in and I gave you «Welcome to the Ghetto»
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| It was me, Scarface and Eiht on the cover of Source Mag
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| In the blue '64 Chevy Impala rag
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| And Menace II Society was the movie to watch
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| I just did the soundtrack, smoking big with the homie Pac
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| I did Triggas Gots No Heart in 18 straight up minutes
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| UGK, Big Poppa, full of stones and we was in it
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| From the Bay to LA back to Houston with DJ Screw
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| Cause Pimp C and Bun B was on the tour with us too (UGK)
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| I’ve been around too many legends to fail
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| I’ve either been shot up, stabbed or thrown in jail
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| But through the flames and the fire I emerged through the ashes
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| And shaped the game like it was made out of clay
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| Bossalini, Fetti Chico, Soprano, Montana, Meier
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| Spice 1, I come from the Bay and I spit fire
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| Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
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| I wanna say I shooked the world like Muhammad Ali
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| C’mon… ha ha ha
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| This how the shit went down you know?
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| I remember me and 'Pac smashed through the hood
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| You know what I’m sayin'?
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| You know what I’m sayin'?
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| We were two young buyin' alcohol man |