| Time for the fallen soldiers
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| Can’t have a war without casualties, you know?
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| For everybody goin' through the struggle, you know
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| Real shit everyday, everyday shit is real
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| (Every hood, every ghetto, every block, every trench)
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| I know how you feel, yeah, look
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| I been out here grindin' so long
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| But still I had to find my way on my own
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I’m a true hustler, all that I know
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| So I can make it anywhere that I go
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like-like, beez like
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| Straight from the hood, got a «get money» fetish
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| Pocket full of green, nigga, like a head of lettuce
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| Put the work in a bag, make a yayo sandwich
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| Then we go and spread it through the hood like Manwich
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| One thing about it, we gon' get this bread
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| When you knew shit was real? |
| When they found a rat dead
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| Right around the corner where us young niggas hustled at
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| Right by the stop sign, that’s where they was bussin' at
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| When you come here with nothin', gotta learn how to provide
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| Carlo had a Benz 'fore he was old enough to drive
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| Losin' 10−20 every night, gamblin' ain’t nothin'
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| Nigga got killed takin' up for his cousins
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| When you knew shit was real? |
| Drop outfit in the feds
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| Still 8 years and a nigga shot him dead
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| On the humbug, left him slumped in his car
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| Everybody got a day, don’t matter who you are
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| I been out here grindin' so long
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| But still I had to find my way on my own
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I’m a true hustler, all that I know
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| So I can make it anywhere that I go
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like-like, beez like
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| Stove water, heat cold water
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| Knew I’d touch a bird when I got my first quarter
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| Sell water to a well, nigga
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| Cold nights, cold hearts, tough love
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| That’s what it be like in jail, nigga
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| Mama crying at my visit cause she care for me
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| Daughter just had her period, ain’t there for her
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| Know how to have a girl you know just gon' hold ya back
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| But the pussy so good you keep goin' back
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| Hurt when ya main man turned rat
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| Make the whole la familia turn hot like that
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| Any city, any block, any boulevard
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| I survive, no lie, I’m a ghetto boy
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| I could tell ya bout the dos and don’ts
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| Could make it anywhere I go, so lose I won’t
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| I can tell ya bout the hard time when ya really need it
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| Been grindin' so long, still had to call Jeezy
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| I been out here grindin' so long
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| But still I had to find my way on my own
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I’m a true hustler, all that I know
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| So I can make it anywhere that I go
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like-like, beez like
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| Straight from the bottom, tryna make it to the top
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| What the gov’ment don’t give you, gotta get it from the block
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| Feel like a bad boy cause this shit don’t stop
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| Street so dirty, need a muhfuckin' mop, uh oh!
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| Lil homie, stay focused, handle ya business
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| Don’t talk to them niggas around you, might be a witness
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| Don’t tell the dishwasher what you did wit' ya dishes
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| Don’t tell these snitchin' niggas what you did wit' ya riches
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| Niggas is hopin' they see Christmas
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| But, if we just happen to don’t, we hope you miss us
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| Santa raised all seven them kids, didn’t miss a meal
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| She work her fingers right to the bone, didn’t miss a bill
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| Nigga, six for the nine, let’s make a deal
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| See, one thing bout countin' this money, it make ya feel
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| See, I used to get 'em right from the source, got 'em direct
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| The same nigga that had a connect, he in the set
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| I been out here grindin' so long
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| But still I had to find my way on my own
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I’m a true hustler, all that I know
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| So I can make it anywhere that I go
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| I could tell you what it beez like
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| I could tell you what it beez like-like, beez like |