| Disillusional fool stuck in menial moonstruck museums
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| Seeing nothing but the back of a tool truck
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| Believing I could fix somethin, gon' get somethin boy now fetch that
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| Cheese on top of that mouse trap, but we ain’t no clown rats
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| We built this city on sound tracks
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| And drive the locomotives around that
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| Promoters and town reps, claim to have a stake in it all yet
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| They only place a stake when the ground’s wet
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| They sit and clap for this custodian rap music
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| And use it for amusement and lack the means to do it
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| In jest, throw a nickel in the hat as a gesture
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| Court of a couple kings showing their rings to jesters
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| And bet money they bleed before they leave get relieved
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| Of these things, out of need not of greed you breed theives
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| And blame us, offering a piece of that fame
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| But, the owners of the masters became us
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| So now what
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| What’s that
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| We want a little
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| They want it all
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| They gonna get it
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| I want a piece of my own, I’m stuck in the middle
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| I want a piece of my own, I’m stuck in the middle
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| What’s that
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| I want a little
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| They got it all
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| I’m gonna get it
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| I got’em stuck off the purchase price
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| Hustling a verse that’s twice that of the worth
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| Of any corny rappers merchandise
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| They outta luck and couldn’t work the dice
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| Bustin' through the surface ice
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| Must’ve been they trusted in the worst advice
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| That folklore the broke where a yoke for
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| That’s choking these throats sore with hope’d for’s
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| Closed doors and glass ceilings
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| Asked to mask feelings
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| With a flask half full of that trash and bad dealings
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| Villains get made when the minimum wage is
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| Lower than the minim for living these days its
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| No wonder why these kids in a daze
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| They out number the rich
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| But on the fringe living criminal ways
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| Not on the hinge where the pendulum sways
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| From these towers
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| These cowards who bleed these hours to feed powers
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| Ain’t a thug I believe in
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| Drug I could breath in
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| Strong enough to beat this love for reason
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| When everything I’ve heard is perverted
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| I preserve my words from absurd and blurred verdicts
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| The curb servants see her skirted inside the moon light
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| Flirting with goons burning spoons
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| See how the fumes bite
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| Streets like a balloon fight
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| Eatin' with two teeth got two blue feet that don’t move right
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| Extortion when rappers glorify this misfortune
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| I abhor the lies that walk the line of distortion
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| Get your check voided paying respects
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| To get you exploited
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| Wept for it they faced death and traded sex for it
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| Explore it see the text get exported
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| See we ignorant no contest or context for it
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| Ignore it
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| Play it loud and vicarious
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| Too important to be proud in all carelessness
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| Some blame rappers but I blame their fans
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| They both making a name off the chains of man
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| What’s that
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| We want a little
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| They want it all
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| They gonna get it
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| I want a piece of my own, I’m stuck in the middle
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| I want a piece of my own, I’m stuck in the middle
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| What’s that
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| I want a little
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| They got it all
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| I’m gonna get it |