| Bull rhythm
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| Raw livin'
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| Came up hard with no pot I could piss in
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| Came up smart with no pot in my system
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| At the beginning, then I went in
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| I asked moms about pops, why he missin'
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| I asked about the crack viles in the kitchen
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| Before I knew being an addict was addiction
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| Then it kicked in, then I pitched in
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| That was when the classmates used to diss then
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| What happened to your eye? |
| They never listened
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| They never wanted to know in the instance
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| You wake up out of your sleep half of your vision
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| Nigga I just couldn’t see shit
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| Used to feel like I was never gon' be shit
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| Patch on my eye, I couldn’t be Rick
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| You wanna hear T-Pain can you believe it?
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| My outlet was the music
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| Was either that or hoop dreams was the cool shit
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| I remember video music Box was the for new shit
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| Reading the back of the flap to see who produced it
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| Used to write raps on scraps like I could do this
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| We used to scrap those raps like, «Are you foolish?»
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| You ever heard of Rakim, Kane, Cool Chip?
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| Well maybe not the last, them other two… shit
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| You better find you a gig
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| You never gon' make it happen how they rappin' my nig
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| That was fuel to the fire that they light in the kid
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| That’s why I chose to inspire and enlighten the kids
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| I was moved even higher by the writing of B.I.G
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| Before that was Illmatic every night in the crib
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| Tribe Called Quest, the Gang Starr, too many to list
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| So when I get to work with Preme man it’s really a gift
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| When I get to work with Pete man it’s really the shit
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| And new legends, 9th Wonder, Khrysis, and Fatin
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| And everybody on the album that decided to pitch in
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| Marco you my brother till they bury my skin
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| Large Pro you a legend, don’t know where to begin
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| Buckwild, Diamond, Diggin' In The Crates to the end
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| And my nigga Eric G., you remembering when
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| You first hit me on Myspace, tryin' to be friends?
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| Told you, you was the truth way back then
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| Want 7 for the soul, now salute that man
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| It’s an army over here, y’all recruit that man
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| Come up on a ill sample go and loop that man
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| Really been the issues and journey since it began
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| Couldn’t tell you where I’m headed, how to get there fam
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| But if you in it for the ride put your seat back then
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| Ayo 'Tin put the beat back in |