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I myself I'm called a hood because I walk with a limp |
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Would you believe they even call my boy a hip-hop pimp? |
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Like Dr. King I had a dream, I couldn't sleep too long |
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If I had to stand alone, I'd still be strong |
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Men are all equal, we're the Father's creation |
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What used to be the distand land is now my nation |
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How long will it be, how many suckers must die? |
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There's only one answer to the question why |
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My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine |
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You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine |
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Unalikes attract and a-alikes repel |
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And if you buy dead dreams I got plenty to sell |
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All the money in the world couldn't buy my knowledge |
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My teacher was experience, the streets was college |
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It's a shame that many had to learn this way |
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So I never take the word of what the next man say |
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Head-a-arm-arm-a-leg-a-leg-a |
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Supreme High Being, Sole Controller, not a beggar |
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My true manifestation of Shan |
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I never fell, I held my destiny within my hand |
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On the day that I was born I received strike one |
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Because my culture was an Asiatic native son |
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My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine |
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You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine |
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My foundation is strong, so I had to destroy |
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Do y'all remember Cheetah, that was Tarzan's boy |
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My main motto is self-satisfaction |
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Life's a movie with no cuts, all straight up action |
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If you roll as a sucker, then a sucker you die |
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And six feet up above you is the heavenly sky |
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I haven't heard of any comin back to tell |
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Dyin must be heaven, cause livin is hell |
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You sit around and wait for your wish to be granted |
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And the next thing you know you're being buried and planted |
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Your body is the temple, the brain is the center |
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A door to explore, but you're scared to enter |
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Mind means many in either direction |
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And the dictionary listed in the poverty section |
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You're nothin but a novel on a bookstore shelf |
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And see the title of mine reads 'Went for Self' |
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My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine |
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You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine |
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You say you're sick and tired of bein rejected |
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And you think you do better bein crime-connected |
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Just for example let's say that you're twenty |
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Got a Benz, fly girls and doo-doo money |
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Moms ask: "Where you get it?" What you gonna tell her? |
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You dropped out of school, became a drug seller |
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You say you knew what you were doin, you say you were smart |
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Next week they beat you down and bust a cap in your heart |
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Your knowledge is the sun, you better let it shine |
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No matter what you do with yours, I'ma teach mine |
