| Yeah, yeah, hey
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| The cityscape where I stay is gettin hot now
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| Unemployment is high and buildings is gettin chopped down
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| Gold teeth populating the block
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| Slurring slang they ignite on the lookout for cops
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| Make the shots ring out like the Liberty Bell
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| No escape from the heat that’s getting hotter than hell
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| Like the oven’s on broil, with blood stains in the soil
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| Pimped on in the colors of crown royal
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| And little sister’s got a baby on hip
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| And her momma never home so the cycle is sick
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| Young ballers on the court wanna play in the league
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| But got knocked in the spot for a quarter of weed
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| It’s getting hot in here, baby leave on your clothes
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| Much more to living life than emulating them hoes
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| I try to speak truth in the form of my flows
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| But the temperature is rising it’s harder to grow, fo' sho'
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| Gotta keep my head up (yeah)
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| Even though I’m fed up (survival every day)
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| Gettin' hard to eat (right)
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| And all the drama in the street (it's gettin hot in every way)
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| Heads up, eyes open, rest in peace headquarters
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| Tunnel vision, most of us is rushing like a special order of stolen NIA (?)
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| The block is hot the ghetto on fire
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| With more narc sales than Avon Barksdale from that show The Wire
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| We keep growing like hair when you die
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| Black butterfly on the rose that’s preparing to fly
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| I paint a picture with the color of the orchid, it’s vivid
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| Whatever kid I talk it, I spit it, I walk it, I live it
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| God bless every step and need to go through a reverend
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| Your boy used to gouge an eye out just to get into heaven
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| We live between heaven and hell like John Constantine
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| Doing crimes they confessing like a teenage drama queen
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| We were leaning now were falling down like Michael Douglas
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| I spit it fast, I gotta get it out, they might unplug it
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| And try to drug us, so I stay aware and watch out for the set up
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| Never scared to go head up, got a plan to get my bread up, and |