| Yo, yo, in El Cuidad they don’t
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| Tires smoke
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| Shorties on the sideline, heat under they coat
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| I split a cantaloupe and watch
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| The drama on my block, enjoying every juicy drop
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| Keepin' my eyes out for the cop
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| Will this shit ever stop? |
| I doubt it
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| The Devil is highly touted
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| The righteous man that wanders is eventually rerouted
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| In the opposite direction, reflection, interspection
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| Wickedness will have your soul trapped in a burning fence and
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| I’m relent-in'
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| The hustle is so temptin'
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| You can quote my sentence
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| We ain’t about no pimpin'
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| I’d rather be ascendin'
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| Rearrangin' patterns
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| Programmed by the slave master
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| Can you fathom?
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| Life with Eve and Adam
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| Before the serpent had 'em
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| I return to my sender, revolve like rings around Saturn (echo)
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| Survive
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| Ain’t it a pity
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| That you hate this city
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| But the way you feel, ain’t no big deal
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| You got to survive
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| You got to survive
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| You got to survive
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| And that’s
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| «The real!» |
| — Gang Starr 'You Know My Steez'
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| Dark streets, swole feets, with massive trash heaps
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| Few speak, most weep, the sorrow, runs deep
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| Eat pain, sleep pain
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| Escape through cocaine
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| Come back, get smacked by life
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| Late lane
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| Want more need less, the stress, maintains
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| One day lose track, in fact, lose brains
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| End up, laid up, in a hospital no name
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| Just numbers on your chest, the vest, you wanna scream
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| But there’s no one there to sympathize
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| The doctor, you despise
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| You never had love for I-N-I
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| Now the dope returns and the hatred burns
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| And you bury yourself deeper in the earth like a worm
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| It’s your turn
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| Take a look at yourself
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| Don’t be too preoccupied by everybody else
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| «Ghettos are the same all over the world. |
| They stink.» |
| -Enter The Dragon
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| Ain’t it a pity
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| That you hate this city
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| But the way you feel, ain’t no big deal
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| You got to survive
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| You got to survive
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| You got to survive
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| And that’s
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| «The real!» |
| — Gang Starr 'You Know My Steez'
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| The tales of a dark mental, shakin' like Jello
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| Someone was giggin'
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| I told him not to leave himself open, evil is hidden
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| In the cracks and crevasses
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| Crannies, cuts and nooks
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| So I sit on my hopstetter and write hooks
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| ? |
| like what it is, look at miss
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| She’s really a mister with blister all on his lips
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| It’s his biz
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| Can’t judge what it is
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| But I know the woman to woman ain’t havin' no kids
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| And man to man yo, ain’t havin' no kids
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| I pray to the father to come and show me what it is
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| And take all my crust from out my eyelids
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| I never did a bid and I won’t get scared
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| Ain’t it a pity
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| That you hate this city
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| But the way you feel, ain’t no big deal
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| You got to survive
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| You got to survive
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| You got to survive
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| And that’s
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| «The real!» |
| — Gang Starr 'You Know My Steez'
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| «It's really real» — Nonchalant '5 O’Clock'
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| «In the concrete jungle» — A Tribe Called Quest 'Midnight' |