| If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope that
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| It makes me a better man, take a better stance
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| Look
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| This song’s dedicated to all the kind of Gs that seem miseducated
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| A young Malcolm Red got up out of his prison bed
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| Said «I'ma leave a mark on this world when I’m dead»
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| X marks the spot
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| A lot of clowns get shot
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| But they living for nothing when he died for a lot
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| From the blocks to the prison
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| Many have risen and lead
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| But I can’t get a job cause they be testing my peace
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| Man, I keep it trill I got sick of calling in sick
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| Waiting for an A&R to come and find me in the sticks
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| Ain’t had the money for school, so I applied for scholarships
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| From black and Indian roots, it’s amazing what you get
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| Was I wonderfully crafted to piss and pay taxes
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| Made a reflective master and lay on the mad tricks, get up, get out
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| Get something man, cultivate a creation
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| Don’t blame it on your lack of education
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| Go to church, go to school, Walk the earth, watch the news
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| Type a person that hates what he learns called a fool
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| Type a person that don’t want to work called skinny
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| Type of person that learns and applies I call winning
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| You were wired to be hungry for more than what you currently are
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| But you spoiled your appetite on these mediocre bars
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| Mediocre stars is all they shooting for
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| It’s a wonder why we rarely get far
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| She got Bette Davis eyes, Phyllis Diller grill
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| The game that she’s name is such a killer ville!
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| Killed to be killed, you might end up in a dirt
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| With no guarantee to end up on a shirt
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| Made to work hard up until the coffin
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| So when you’re hard at work, you don’t get to see death’s cousin often
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| But why rest? | 
| When the rest of the world is like yo
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| Grown man, you need to drop up some pearls!
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| Them legends from the ground up pulled me through school
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| Had me run up on stage and look 'em dead in they eyes
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| Known to do the same, school the newest to the games
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| So when they run up on stage they look 'em dead in they eye
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| Phone and I’m known as a vet
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| We don’t take kindly to some old school title around the neck
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| Challenge the game herself to a game of wealth
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| She laughed and gave me money, but I kept my fame on stealth
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| Quiet money still money and we talk tall
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| She got her face dolled up, white nose all on froze lines
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| The snow crawled up in the calm
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| They claim they dope, stay shot up in the arm
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| The B. Manilow be the handle though
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| They say that we made it
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| But the low part check it your dated
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| But if the game shakes me or breaks me
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| A better man, I will become 'til the day I will be done
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| Uh, it’s too much ice grilling with eyes closed
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| It’s too much ice work and fly clothes
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| We gotta get our priorities in order
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| Before we go and order another pair of Jordans
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| Cause I got a daughter, she fine, she taken care of this time
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| Or is just another D minus you get for always lying
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| Can you go and put it behind us?
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| So what you trying to find?
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| I ain’t trying to say I’m perfect, but I sure am trying
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| One thing about me, feel the music in my soul
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| Could have changed up, could have went the wrong road
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| Seen the door opened, could have seen the door closed
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| Could have seen the cup empty, but I’ve seen the cup full
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| Now that the tank full, man, where you wanna go?
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| I ain’t gotta sell records for my heart to go, go
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| Learn that while you’re young, save a lot of heart break
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| Drop jewels on your son, listen to what mom say
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| Son, first was the apostle second was the prophet
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| Third was the teacher, now they all watch him
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| Try to be peaceful, man I’m just trying to live
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| Cause Lord knows I had problems at my momma crib
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| Life had me stuck, oh, making dollars there
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| But the dollars I was chasing, they was counterfeit
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| So bogus, living your life hopeless
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| Up against the ropes just trying to stay focused
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| While I’m on this Earth, I’mma try to progress
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| I know a lot of men that’s rich, but they know less
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| But since I guaged being rich with health, God, fam
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| My friends and my fans, I’mma die a rich man! |