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[Intro: Speaking] |
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Ladies and gentlemen |
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Second Thoughts on the beat |
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Big up to Lace Cadence |
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Good lookin' out for this one, man |
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[Verse 1:] |
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I love hip hop music |
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I just hate the ego |
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The politics that follow it |
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Getting caught in it can be lethal |
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See I love the community |
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'Cause a community will embrace you |
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But you turn it back the community is the people that will hate you |
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See everybody's striving for that same shit |
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To get paid and make it |
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And I'll be honest, I'm trying to become famous |
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When someone makes a move |
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Watch that person next to you |
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Cause I'll warn ya |
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I love Hova but jealousy's The Takeover |
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Here come the mean mugs |
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"I can't do what he does" |
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And where does that lead us? |
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To the ego that feeds us |
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I wish that I could just do what I do |
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But when a door opens for him I'm afraid there won't be enough room |
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Comparison's a mother ****er |
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Like MLK said, |
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"We all want that band leader syndrome and it won't stop" |
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This concept makes me wonder |
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Is it the commodity of the music or the ego that is killing hip hop? |
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[Chorus:] |
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It's the ego |
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That makes me not give respect in death |
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It's the ego |
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That makes me talk shit behind people's back |
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You know that it's the ego |
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That's constantly polluting my consciousness |
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So ingrained in my brain that I can barely even acknowledge it |
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It's the ego |
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That makes the present moment jet lagged |
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I said it's the ego |
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That has me trippin about the next man |
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You know that it's the ego |
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That makes me not go to the front |
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Of the show 'cause the performers have exactly what I want |
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[Verse 2:] |
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I'm so cool |
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F'real? |
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No dude, I'm serious spit it different and if you just flow too |
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I'll listen lookin for glitches and rip 'em to shove improve |
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That my rhythm's a little bit more intricate, just to boost |
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My ego |
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Is so evil |
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Threatened by so many different kinds of people |
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It seems that if you're goin' through somethin' and life is feelin' uncomfortable |
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The immediate place you go is to your ego to comfort you |
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When Boom Bap got signed |
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I hated on him |
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When Grayskul got signed |
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I hated on him |
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And that's hard to admit |
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But since I'm really bein' honest |
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I wanted to be one of the first to make it as a Northwest rap artist |
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Instead of takin it as a plus for my region |
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I took it as a cut to my dreams of makin' it out of this political scene of Northwest haters |
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To be next I guess I'm just like them |
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Jealous of who's taking that step |
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[Chorus] |
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[Outro:] |
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Now everybody got one but people tryin' to front |
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Claimin that they on the humble but cocky |
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Now it comes up when we judge |
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Or are threatened by someone |
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But everyone still be like 'man that's not me' |
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Now let me break it down son |
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It's only a lack of love for ourselves |
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Cause we're submerged in 'I gotta be' |
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The best or number one |
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But it's just that we don't trust |
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In our heart and that's what stops me |
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It's the ego |
