| «Life was given to us just to do the right thing
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| Instead of that became an old bum and big dope fiend»
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| It’s mad flavor that you savor for word life
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| On the streets you must be precise (Watch out)
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| The essence of the concrete jungle (Uh huh)
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| Where cash money is made by the bundle (What's up kid?)
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| Check out this kid with the fresh new gear
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| Sportin' a phat Yukon but won’t make it through the year
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| Thinkin' his life is bullet proof
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| Glocks are fully loaded, have his ass off the roof
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| Or pass through loot, but things change for the better (What?!)
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| Your punk knocks, just to get your shit together (Say what?)
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| Brothers surpass so many turfs for what it’s worth (Why?)
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| There’s top dollar bills on this planet Earth
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| Me, myself & I choose to format right
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| And survive through the city nights
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| Old man’s pops his son on the ave for slangin' yac
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| Many, levels of bull, take your order
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| Niggas ain’t frontin'
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| They leave your dead ass on the corner
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| For what it’s worth, I needs to go get mine
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| Find a fat sack and I’ll be fine
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| Pumpin' my niggas, instant death when you hear me
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| Bonafied to rhyme live all through this whole city
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| No need to hop The B.U.M.s will keep you on nod
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| I represent Cali and that shit ain’t odd
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| For my peeps locked down, you keep a smile not a frown
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| I know you too from Sherman’s old school ground
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| I think I left my mark
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| Oakland’s my one true love, but yo it’s gettin' dark
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| This goes out to all the hustlers that’s out to get yours
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| On the street dwellin', crack sellin' entrepreneurs
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| The ballers that survive to see '95 and all the players
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| That’s down to keep it live
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| It’s Mystic on the mic representin' the west
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| Plus representin' the craft, womanhood at it’s best
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| 20 years young, with the, gifted tongue
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| Leave niggas, supremely sprung when my shit gets swung
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| One in a million ways to die
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| When caught up in the rapture of an unequivocal sister
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| My nature is of capture
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| Laughter, as the mask cascades
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| Lyrical blade I don’t need to be saved
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| Can’t trade, the life is rough enough to cuff a sister in chains
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| Keyed on the regular, just to keep me sane
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| Brothers be like, «Damn you so cold»
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| They never fail to feel the pain in me
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| Still my niggas say that it will be fine
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| Just let your light shine
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| Matter of fact, fuck that I got worldly expectations
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| So don’t bother business up my mental with stress
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| Signin' off with finesse
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| The rude gal from the west
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| This goes out to all the hustlers that’s out to get yours
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| On the street dwellin', crack sellin' entrepreneurs
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| The ballers that survive to see '95 and all the players
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| That’s down to keep it live
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| Fakin' the style is a flagrant foul, let’s chill for awhile
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| But any in it comes back someway somehow
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| Playin' both sides like a double edged knife
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| That’ll get you squashed like a bug on the windshield of life
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| This goes out to all the 70's kids who didn’t die from S.I.D.S.
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| Only to spend a lifetime doin' bids
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| Some, wither away on the street corner gamblin'
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| But I be stackin' loot for my daughter to hit Gramblin
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| Never claim to be the baddest brother but I murder on the flow
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| Keep my financial, status on the down low
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| So bitches don’t know if I’m broke or clockin' doe
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| Livin' small with large dreams was my theme for '94
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| Raps my life without my child and wife I couldn’t go the distance
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| So fuck welfare and general assistance
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| Fuck 5−0 and gettin' scared from hoppin' fences
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| And fuck them motherfuckers that’s threatened by my existence
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| My mental provides strength to make the weak shiver
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| A full time black man, part time nigger
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| This goes out to all the hustlers that’s out to get yours
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| On the street dwellin', crack sellin' entrepreneurs
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| The ballers that survive to see '95 and all the players
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| That’s down to keep it live |