| Yup, the truth gon' hurt
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| Play by the rules but the rules don’t work,
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| Cash rules everything prove your worth,
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| Enough to make a pure heart do some dirt
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| So, light this swish up, start this bitch up,
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| Do what you gotta and I’m right there with you
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| Got no permission, on a mad mission
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| To fuck shit up from all positions
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| These are the days when shit goes down
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| Reach for the sky or kiss the ground
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| Nothing to lose when the pigs come round
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| We rebel royals with no crown
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| Ring the alarm, that war sound
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| Rise with the tide or ya’ll drown
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| Pump your brakes and just slow down
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| We rebel royals with no crown
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| My peoples ain’t copping no Porsches,
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| They’re hopping up all on my warship,
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| They’re burning down shit they don’t like,
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| And destroying all that they worship
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| We live a quick life with no foot brake
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| My people push rhymes or they push weight
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| Kush ain’t no crime, it’s the hood way
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| But a crook’s nine is a crook’s fate
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| It’s a good day, for a campaign
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| Shaka Zulu my damn name
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| New York, Egypt, Bahrain
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| Every siren sounds the damn same
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| No half crooks, no half kings,
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| No title prize for a half win,
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| My mind’s hungry, like fasting
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| For a shine that’s everlasting.
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| I’ve been to the top while I was wrestling with my shadow
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| I’ve been a rebel in the desert, I done battled through the fire
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| Through the fire
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| Done led an army and I brought down walls of castles
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| Done been alone against the world and I done battled through the fire
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| Through the fire
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| Through the fire, passed it,
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| Did that shit my own way
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| A phoenix from the ashes,
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| A diamond in a roach tray
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| So okay, you best know
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| The world is mine, Esco
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| The ghetto manifesto
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| Rally my troops and let’s go
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| Cause these days, the whole hood hurts
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| Can’t make rent, put in work
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| They with the pay get to run earth
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| And never look at what they done birthed
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| So, these are the days my team reigns
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| Watch for the coup on the replay,
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| Victory laps on the freeway
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| Got my head spinning like weed haze.
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| No time for beefing with cliques
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| No mind for heaving these bricks,
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| Tat read 'Azad' so I’m free as god
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| And I’m saving wall street a clip
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| Money don’t know how to act
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| So guerrillas on attack,
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| I set fire to theithey backs
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| Yeah, I lit it with they racks
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| Cause I love the smell of gasoline,
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| Balaclavas at the cash machine
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| And these Guy Fawkes on my blocks
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| Norman Rockwell come paint this scene
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| I been the best, survived the worst
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| Been tested and died of thirst,
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| Been passed and I been cursed,
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| I been the last and now I’m the first
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| Cause I hear a humming coming from all around
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| Killer bees on their way up from underground
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| Can’t nobody, nobody hold us down
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| We rebel royals with no crown
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| Cause I hear a humming coming from all around
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| Killer bees on their way up from underground
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| Can’t nobody, nobody hold us down
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| We rebel royals with no crown |