| Statik Selektah
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| «—live and direct»
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| «Others such as myself are tryna—» «—carry on tradition»
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| Carry on tradition
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| «Got Statik, and I’mma select»
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| «You get it!»
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| Mic check, 1, 2, 1, 2
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| Mic check when a nigga come through
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| «—carry on tradition»
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| Niggas keep it silent
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| 'Cause we all about that knowledge
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| Besides the fact a nigga never been as swank as me, I like that
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| Until I shine I sit patiently, so light that
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| I’m folding back, scroll a pack and roll a fatty, smoke-savvy
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| Not divinorum, mad I’m thinking what they probably should have did before him
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| I’m on my girls and soaring, foreign under them heels
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| It ain’t about the Ralph though, tell your horse chill
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| Don’t need to grill to feel like a real nigga
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| If he can’t see the light then shine Hilfigers still
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| Six-figure deals with the hell, since the age of six I knew the name would ring
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| a bell
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| In six more years to wonder what the time could tell
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| That’s 666 still no signs of a three-sixty deal
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| Neither did I sell myself, records spinning by they self
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| The DJ tell myself go reflects off the reflex, before I told Flex drop that
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| Semtex on the next New York best
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| This sickest sound, stick around, and we coming for the vets now
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| Can a nigga contest? |
| Maybe if he put his pride aside he could confess,
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| but none the less
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| It’s fundamental, weed to fund the mental, wise with the momentum
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| So rise on this momental, so pawn your in-credentials
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| Watch who you pretend to, and put a potent diamond to fuel
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| Respect my conglomerate then wait I’m rocking to
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| It’s such a prominent tune, but I won’t get my roses until I lie on my tomb
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| Flowers
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| «Others such as myself are tryna—» «—carry on tradition»
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| Carry on tradition
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| Fo' sho'
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| Yeah «Got Statik, and I’mma select»
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| I said, that E-S to the G-N, bitch
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| «—live and direct»
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| Yeah, fo' sho' «—carry on tradition» Gangster Gibbs, baby
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| Nigga, that Hennessy—
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| Nigga, that Hennessy—nigga, that Hennessy—
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| With my lyrical Billy Dee .45 Colt
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| Fuck the polices, they raided but they can’t find dope
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| If it ain’t about money and bitches—nigga, what you rhyme for?
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| Work half a day in my trap, and make what you sign for
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| My niggas is willing to whip that work
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| Cause it’s such a ridiculous feeling to come in your crib and your shit don’t
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| work
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| Electric, gas, and water
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| You fugazi and mutilated like Pookie at the Carter
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| Joseph Jackson of gangsta rapping, nigga respect the father
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| Taking it back to making them pick a switch off the tree
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| Every time you rap or do a show, bitch I should pinch off a fee
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| You used to flow 'bout goofy shit, met a G and got on some groupie shit
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| A slave to my rap page, student under my tutelage
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| I’m still taking these boys to school
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| As quick as I build them up, I can just disassemble them
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| Coke and cut the curriculum cousin stayed up in Flint
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| I was shipping this shit to Michigan
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| The black bastard fuck LensCrafters I see the bitch in them
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| Cop a squat drop a pile on them, I’m steadily shitting on these niggas
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| But they hate the way Freddie came and switched up the style on ‘em
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| I stretched it out to 250 he got a nine coming
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| Don’t sell it at night but I’m up as early as five something
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| Chopping boulders, and blowing dosha so fuck a cup of Folgers
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| Bended corners, and serving yola straight off this Motorola
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| Sometimes you sacrifice your heart to serve this hard weight
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| Thirty rounds of death on my waist, its Baby Scarface, nigga
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| («—carry on tradition») Yeah
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| I said, thirty rounds of death on my waist, its Baby Scarface, nigga
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| I got thirty rounds of death on my waist, its Baby Scarface, nigga
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| Yeah
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| («—carry on tradition»)
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| Carry on tradition
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| «Got Statik, and I’mma select»
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| «You get it!»
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| You know what I’m sayin', nigga? |
| These niggas’ll rap around circles and shit
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| But, you know what I’m sayin', if they ain’t talking no real shit,
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| it really doesn’t really fuckin' matter, you dig what I’m sayin', nigga?
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| Haha, ya dig? |