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I'm sitting at the edge of my bed and |
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I'm fed Up with negative thoughts running straight through my head |
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Life's ready and |
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I can't make moves, it's hard |
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And I thought it would have been nice to buy papa dukes some shoes |
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Niggas try to get over, pressure on my shoulders |
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Dropped the fat |
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LP in '91 of |
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October Now that |
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I'm older and my man pops is gone |
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My focus is stronger, mom pick up your head, gotta move on |
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Do you remember |
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Mr. J used to say the beats was fat |
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But when it comes to business, nigga don't play |
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I look beyond all this stress to seek fate |
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Mad homicides, unemployment rates sky high |
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Shorty busting caps, cops caught him out there |
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Daytime drama and his mama didn't care |
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That's why |
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I should be rapping and packing pistols on the bully |
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But niggas be stressing me and |
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I ain't paid in fully |
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So I'm dropping something fatter, not for props |
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We're respecting the matter, hops |
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I'm fat, check my stats, |
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Prince drops data for me and my man |
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Pops Rolls- |
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Royce and myself are always getting mad harassed by the cops |
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So now I'm in the chop shop creating masterpieces |
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So it don't matter money what my funny label releases |
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Thanks to the streets and my peeps that made me |
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And the la-la-lee, la-la-lee |
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We gotta maintain (Repeat 8x) [Pharoahe Monch] |
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Now it's been saaaaaaaaaaid, a grown man ain't supposed to cry |
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So whyyyyyy, are there tears inside my eyes? |
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I wake up in the morning, get some new problem |
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I just can't solve 'em |
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Yo, extreme kid, |
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I'm telling you man, |
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I'm on the brink of ??? |
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Who's that man in the mirror? |
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Ha! The picture's getting clearer and clearer, ha! |
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The end is coming nearer and nearer, ha! |
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Take a good look at what you fear, ha! |
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Time marches on and it's a new song |
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It's a new morning, it's a new dawn |
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Feet don't fail me now, |
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I got to make it to the studio someway somehow |
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But I need a little bit of nourishment first |
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I stop at the store to quench my thirst |
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Why are they watching me buy my juice? |
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Why must they clock my buy my juice? |
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Just give me my change and please put my change in my hand |
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Man would you listen to me if |
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I didn't have a tan? |
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All you have to do is show some decency |
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But you want to bring out the beast in me |
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Papa always told me...be all you can be |
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And maintain, gotta maintain (Ad-libs to end) |
