| Stay there, if you wan' stay there making complaints
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| I’ma change my own fate
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| I’m the same kid that was starving
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| Scraping on plates
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| Now I drive a new plate
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| Late night fighting those demons
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| Praying for a break
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| I just pray I don’t break
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| You only get one shot
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| There is not a outtake, uh
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| I pray you make it out safe
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| Even my mum put pressure on me
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| And then my son put pressure on me
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| Even the slum put pressure on me
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| But pressure makes diamonds
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| Even my mum put pressure on me
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| And then my son put pressure on me
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| Even the slum put pressure on me
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| But pressure makes diamonds
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| Look what the pressure made
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| It made you make it
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| Singing «Started from the Bottom»
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| Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement
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| Look at what the pressure made
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| It made you make it
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| Singer started from the bottom
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| Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement
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| Ima take you back to '03
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| See my olders used to have a cold steez
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| I swear, everyting they wore was off-key
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| And I just wanna see them jackets on me
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| Remember Sticher in the coup with OG
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| Or Ratty when he had the cold Jeep
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| I swear everyting they wore was on freeze
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| I mean everyting they wore was on fleek
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| See the jungle where I live is concrete
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| I’m just tryna be a Mowgli
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| And everybody’s trapping 'round me
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| But nobody ain’t styling on me
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| I turned into the older that I always wan' be
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| I copped my first Q from Ceaze
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| I’m tryna build my line, I can’t sleep
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| Then I built my line and now I can’t sleep
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| Now my neighbors dem are getting nosey
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| Cah I’m in and out, can’t pass three
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| And my baby mother’s getting lonely
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| And every day she says she wan' leave
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| Now the next ting, she saying she ah breed
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| I can’t breathe
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| Cah now I gotta make some more P
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| But it’s getting cat and mouse with the police
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| I just got a chase, had to dash a lil B
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| Came back couldn’t even find E
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| And then the fucking feds even tried to take Z
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| And when they came back, man, the fuckers took P
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| They raided 6 yards it was 6:30
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| Federali looking like the army
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| So now I got the feeling that they’re tryna swarm me
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| So now I’m only rapping on beats
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| Even my mum put pressure on me
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| And then my son put pressure on me
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| Even the slum put pressure on me
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| But pressure makes diamonds
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| Even my mum put pressure on me
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| And then my son put pressure on me
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| Even the slum put pressure on me
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| But pressure makes diamonds
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| Look what the pressure made
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| It made you make it
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| Singing «Started from the Bottom»
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| Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement
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| Look at what the pressure made
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| It made you make it
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| Singer started from the bottom
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| Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement
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| Now I got my whole fam banking on me
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| Cause if I don’t provide then nobody don’t eat
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| The Lord made a giant out of little old me
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| Cause pressure made I, man
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| Now I got my whole fam banking on me
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| Cause if I don’t provide then nobody don’t eat
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| The Lord made a giant out of little old me
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| Cause pressure made I, man, yeah
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| All the stresses, yeah
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| For us, adult adolescents
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| I been getting paid just to finish off my sentence
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| Same time my little brother’s trying to finish off his sentence
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| We just wanna shine, we put diamonds in our pendants
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| Truth is, we’re just trying to find some independence
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| Our descendants probably look and think we look horrendous
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| Which side is your preference? |
| Love and hate got four letters
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| Those who wish me death, I just say they got a deathwish
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| Call them toy soliders, I can eat them for my breakfast
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| Put them in my eggs, leave them running till they’re breathless
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| Or put them in the pan, let them sizzle till they perish
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| I’m a diamond and I’m precious, my diamond’s from the pressure |