| Take my Mic down a lil' bit
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| Yoo, aha
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| Come with the hook
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| Can’t you see (Can't you see!)
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| The things that matter are (The things that really matter are!)
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| Gonna set you free (Set yourself free!)
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| When I think of all the riches we attain, via rap black slang, even crack
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| cocaine, I
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| Ask myself is it ever really worth it when its all so surface and a nigga lack
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| purpose, Why
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| Do I bother tryna' figure out the meaning of a life so demeaning for a necklace
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| i’ll die, My
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| Baby momma into Dolce&Gabanna all her sisters into Prada and they never buy
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| books!
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| Now all they baby’s rockin' hundred dollar sneakers having problems with they
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| teachers, educations not a factor
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| And some rappers make it clear that nuttin' matters, the pursuit of stackin'
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| papers breeding younger gun clappers
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| And now the teachers and the preachers and the pastors out here searching for
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| solutions, Let me say it ain’t religion!
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| It ain’t money politics and economics, cos the black mans problem is a fucking
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| lack of knowledge
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| Can’t you see (Can't you see!)
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| The things that matter are (The things that really matter are!)
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| Gonna set you free (Set yourself free!)
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| Hes just a baby on the front line wilin' cos his pappa rock a ???
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| , and his momma can’t cope
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| So his momma smoke coke, in the winter no coat, running sales in the summer
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| till his sneakers lack soles, Since
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| Black Radio done sold its soul and became a gossip column that contributes to
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| the violence, Uh
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| Moment of silence for the dead black race that measures life by the inches on a
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| chrome set of spinners
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| And us niggas who done made a lil' money, out here killing one another buncha
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| god damn dummys
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| It’s not funny, it’s the absolute truth, half the doe' we spend on lawyers
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| could be goin' to the youth
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| Got whippers
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| Got bitches
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| Got beef
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| Got guns
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| Got 99' problems that resort from 1
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| Not rap
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| Not ebonics
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| Not the ghetto or the violence
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| Cos the black mans problem is a fucking lack of knowledge
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| Can’t you see (Can't you see!)
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| The things that matter are (The things that really matter are!)
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| Gonna set you free (Set yourself free!)
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| Niggas acting like the world done change, since they made a lil' change and a
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| rapper won a Grammy, Shit
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| Niggas mistaken black people as a nation in the worst situation than the days
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| of plantation, Rich
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| Niggas of color never reach out to they brothers who surviving in these gutters
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| by the strip for triple beams, seems
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| Poor people lack the resources and the means to support the hearts desire to
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| pursue the right things, I
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| Find it hard to teach the people when they’re hungry, cos the baby’s gotta eat
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| and everything cost money, But
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| No excuses we become a race of losers and the other nations use us for they
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| come up when they choose tuh'
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| And now the elders act like we the reason why, as if our generation fell from
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| out the fuckin' sky
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| I guess the food have fallen further from the trees, cos' nobody wants to
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| harvest what have become of black seeds
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| Can’t you see (Can't you see!)
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| The things that matter are (The things that really matter are!)
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| Gonna set you free (Set yourself free!) |