| These are the thug songs
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| It was my destiny
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| To carry the curse
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| It was written so let it be
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| The nefarious verses
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| This is my legacy
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| Consider it food for thought
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| This is my recipe
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| These are the thug songs
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| Hellish and heavenly
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| I can see the light ahead of me
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| Maybe I’ll rest in peace
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| The nefarious verses
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| This is my legacy
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| Consider it food for thought
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| This is my legacy
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| Close the eyes as I describe the picture and visualize the scene in your mind’s
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| eye
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| As I scribe the scripture
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| And come with me
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| Absorb the words
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| Its a metaphorical decapitation and its sword to words
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| Leave behind your politics, opinions, and commentary
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| Just listen
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| Doesn’t require any religion
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| Let go of your beliefs until you spiritually bare
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| So your preconception won’t render your hearing in here
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| Now that you’re prepared
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| I got a story to share
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| And it’s from a unique perspective — this story is rare
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| I’ve seen the light
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| I witnessed the glorious glare
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| Of the truth and it was almost too much for me to bear
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| One day I asked myself
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| 'Is this the way I was meant to be'? |
| I had an epiphany I was living in misery
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| An evil man more destructive and crazy
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| I tried to fight the truculent thoughts but my mind depraved me
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| Is this the way God designed me, made me?
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| Or is that just an excuse in all truths they say
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| So many questions
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| Don’t know who to seek for answers
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| Should I speak a preacher or a necromancer
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| I was standing on the brink of insanity
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| Went on an introspective journey through my soul tryna find my humanity
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| Wasn’t half the man I planned to be
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| I wanted to know who taught me misanthropy — was it life or my family
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| I wanted to know
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| Why couldn’t my parents unite
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| They should raised me together taught me to be fair and do right
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| And I wanted to know
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| Why my soul was prone to drama
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| I was floating in darkness and I’m so far from over
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| When I was young
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| A figure stood at the foot of my bed
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| And it vanished when I shook my head
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| Was it a dream or a sign of all things to come?
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| I’ll find out on the day that God’s kingdom comes
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| But right now…
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| I was forced to contemplate
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| It was involuntary |
| I couldn’t stop thinking I was locked in solitary
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| Surrounded by white walls
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| Sensually deprivated
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| It was like light pauls
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| Mentally devestating
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| Like «Cast Away»
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| I was stranded in my own brain
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| Stashed away
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| Couldn’t remember my own name
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| It lasted for days in the zone causing my own pain
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| Up until that point in my life I hadn’t known pain
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| But my identity
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| I started to recollect
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| Recalling my memory
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| I started to retrospect
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| A theme played in my mind — started to reminisce
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| Review the instance when I discarded my innocence
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| A delusional image was it a vision or fantasy?
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| Was I losing my mind, losing my sanity?
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| I called out to my creator
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| «Forgive me for all the lies»
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| And I asked but got no reply
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| How passionate was my cry
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| It flashed before my eyes
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| I saw my creator
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| It was me
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| I’m responsible for all my behavior
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| My thoughts clear
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| By walking through the flames I was purified
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| In the fire I’ve been doing for life
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| I tried to kill the renaissance
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| So my soul was banged and bruised
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| Through the experience I gained the truth |
| And in response I’m hoping I can change the views
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| My generation needs a voice of thugs bangs to you
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| Who can explain the views
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| In all pain
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| I’ve written this in plain English
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| Like Sam Clements
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| So call me Dark Twain
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| Written to see
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| For all the young in the ghetto
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| Thug songs continue to be sung in the ghetto
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| Let these preach in all the slums in the ghetto
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| Cause in the Bible
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| Jesus comes from the ghetto
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| And I come from the ghetto
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| So I speak for the ghetto
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| These words and these tears
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| My soul beats for the ghetto |