| Thug holiday, go ahead you can cry this up right baby
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| Everything gone be gravy later, that’s right
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| This the time when we take time to remember
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| All the loved ones we lost in the struggle you know
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| I dedicate this to my brother Hollywood, Toby, Bam
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| My dog Itchy and Lil Trav, I dedicate this to the struggle
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| Everybody in the county jail, state penn, check it out
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| If it wasn’t for bad luck, hell I guess that a nigga wouldn’t have none
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| But when I think about it, what would I be without my gun
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| How could I, get away from the po-po's, if a, nigga couldn’t run
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| And how was I given a daughter when I always prayed for a son
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| Life is crazy ain’t it, sometimes I even think the same thing
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| I’ve been waiting on freeing the ring hell but ain’t a thang changed
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| And I lost my brother in the struggle, Taterhead done lost his mother
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| And I’m thinking about it who’s mine’s who gone raise my brother
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| Not to be a thug, stay in school, don’t use drugs
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| Who’ll teach him right from wrong and show them boys, true love
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| So I pray for the better days, face the bomb had a run-a-ways
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| And, I put my guns away and I pray for peace on Sundays, it’s crazy ain’t it
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| Just like the soldiers, that ain’t coming home this year
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| Just like the fellas, in prison, we miss you so much for real
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| What about the children, who ran away, that ain’t coming home today
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| Well here’s a message from coast to coast
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| Cause when them thugs really need it the most a thug holiday
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| Just like 'em, just like 'em, just like 'em, a thug holiday — 2x
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| Here go one for, all these killings and all these conflicts in religion
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| See the Muslims, Jews and Christians but know they are all God’s children
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| There’s only, one him, plus ain’t none of y’all confronting him
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| So blind in our own minds we wouldn’t even know God if we was in front of him
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| And, I read your books know all your remixes to the bible
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| What about a, verse for the thugs curled with drugs and survival
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| That’s asking chapels naming Martin, Malcolm and Farrakhan
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| In all my history books, only one died was the Americans
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| And, that’s point of my, who’s responsible for Vietnam
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| And, hold on there’s more, we had two World Wars
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| And, how come the judges make more than the teachers is making
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| When they the ones raising all the taxes and got us fighting for education
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| Life is crazy ain’t it
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| So many tears, through out the years
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| Somebody tell me what’s going on
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| And so many liiives, but only God knows
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| About the pain deep inside
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| It gets so hard, you got to keep your head up
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| I know you’re fed up, but stay strong
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| Here’s a message from coast to coast
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| Cause when them thugs really need it the most, thug holiday
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| Just like 'em, just like 'em, just like 'em, a thug holiday — 2x
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| This is for my people in the ghetto
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| I’m calling out, calling out
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| To all my thugs in the ghetto
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| Calling out, calling out
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| It gets hard sometimes, but you
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| Got to keep your head up, and be strong
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| Here’s a message from coast to coast
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| Cause when them thugs really need it the most, a thug holiday
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| (*ad-libs*) |