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I arrived in Minnesota with handcuff bruises |
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Summer ninety deuce prepared to cut loose shit |
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Mom wasn't having that f**k being cool |
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With no discussion stuck me in a suburb school |
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Now day and night I'm on a bus full of fools |
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Who parents didn't want us ended up in the news |
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You must be crazy you think any of us appreciate it |
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How our parents wanna upgrade us |
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All day long we're in a fantasy land |
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Moms and dads college plans and minivans |
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But when the sun set you fled the success |
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To the slum where you rest nothing more nothing less |
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School they fantasize about gangsta rap records |
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But these are our lives our families are connected |
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The Ice Cube summer vacation is taking place |
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Right around the way from where I stay |
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The mold from the gold and the 'rips from L A |
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Brought snow to the cold for a new place to play |
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There's a war going on outside you ain't safe from |
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See if this education might save 'em |
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I've known you your whole life |
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You drawn to that street life |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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I've known you your whole life |
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You drawn to that street life |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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And so our little city bus crew used to run together |
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Eat lunch together girls Double Dutch together |
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Fellas humbugging next day be friends |
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The only thing we never did was date from withing |
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Fellas dated white girls sisters stayed lonely |
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Used to kiss me on my cheek and say we were homies |
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Alphonso basement we ran the party |
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One day on the bus Pumpking stabs Akey |
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Shit my main man was Ethan |
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Used to sell sneakers at a store called Friedman's |
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He had two older cousins that were hustlers |
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Filas wasn't all he pumping to the customers |
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He got a check but he got connects |
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So he got some chicks and he got respect |
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His boy Ali got hooked up with clothes |
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One day slap boxing he broke my nose |
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He almost cried man he had a good heart |
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The brother's only problem was he wasn't book smart |
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He dropped out of school but he kept slanging shoes |
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To keep the kids fed he had to sell base too |
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I've known you your whole life |
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You drawn to that street life |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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I've known you your whole life |
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You drawn to that street life |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Time to time I used to stop in and check on my dude |
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Even when we lost touch with the rest of our crew |
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We both had babies drama with our old ladies |
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But as time went on our connection only grew |
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He said "I just can't seem to leave these streets alone man |
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Feels like I fell asleep one evening |
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And woke up the next day suddenly a grown man |
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In a rut with no idea how to leave it |
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My parents got too many kids to help me through |
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I really don't know what the hell else to do |
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I know you gonna really get it cracking with that rap thing |
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And when you blow up I'm a come and work for you" |
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Ha that's my man I see you when I see you brother |
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Keep your head up 'til the next time we see each other |
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Rolled out on my first national tour |
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Back on the block went back to the store |
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Put my hand on the door Ethan wasn't in though |
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They said somebody shot 'em through his front window |
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Hit 'em in the head and that he hadn't survived |
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Matter fact he died 'fore the ambulance arrived |
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A man in that life it wasn't no mistake |
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The cops called it a stray bullet closed the case |
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So there's no justice and there's no closure |
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You can't touch this not you no sir |
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They buried my brother I was on the road |
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By the time I got home the ground was cold |
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Got nothing left but a hole in my soul |
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Shit dude was 23 years old |
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I've known you your whole life |
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You drawn to that street life |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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I've known you your whole life |
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You drawn to that street life |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
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Slipping away slipping away |
