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[00:11.51]Straight to the block, to the hood, to a spot
[00:17.00]Cocaine to a rock, duece duece in a sock
[00:20.28]Every dollar closer to a drop
[00:22.14]Every drop is closer to a cop
[00:23.85]Every cop is closer to a cell
[00:25.50]Hit the cell your ticket right to hell
[00:27.19]No job, no bail
[00:28.89]No fam, no mail
[00:30.25]Institution another nigga fail
[00:32.05]Go from pussy to a prison tale
[00:33.74]Fuck that, I quit while I'm ahead
[00:35.58]Ship my music off with Amistad
[00:37.12]Turn it up and here the ghetto pledge
[00:38.92]Live righteous nigga like my brother said
[00:40.61]King Tut, Martin Luther, Malcolm X, but ima shoota'
[00:44.00]Top ramen, knowledge for the noodle
[00:45.66]Finally gettin' praised
[00:47.05]Yeah kudos
[00:47.75]Doing bad, still love the need
[00:48.95]Connect said it's something up his sleeve
[00:50.74]Said, I rather bust off them keys
[00:52.23]Yeah nigga birds and the beez
[00:54.08]Birds and the beez
[00:55.92]Birds and the beez
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[01:07.83]Wanna do a song, but its hard to carry on
[01:11.26]And my daughter hungry sitting home
[01:12.95]And my girl said she feeling lone
[01:14.60]I can't tell its over in her tone
[01:16.39]Only time I call is for a loan
[01:18.04]She be stressing, so depressing
[01:19.28]Always worried every time a lil nigga gone
[01:21.27]Stay strong for the future, stick together, yeah suture
[01:24.57]Get a couple wipps, yeah kunta
[01:26.32]Schoolboy but gangsta was his tutors
[01:28.11]Say money be the root of evil,
[01:29.75]Look around and see what it do to people
[01:31.31]Veins full of heroin using pcp inject the body with a needle
[01:34.70]Lord help us, swear to god,
[01:36.35]Dope dealers, get a job
[01:38.04]Keep it real this shit ain't really cool,
[01:39.94]Being in a cell, you ain't alive
[01:41.39]Niggas quick to show out over cheese,
[01:43.25]Love to help the devil do a deed
[01:44.80]So I rather bust of them keys?
[01:46.54]Yeah nigga birds and the beez
[01:49.21]Birds and the beez
[01:50.92]Birds and the beez
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[02:00.23]Tired of the same ol' shit, niggas they faking it
[02:05.03]Niggas out here living foul
[02:06.83]Better yet they flagrant,
[02:08.38]Keep these niggas right up out the game
[02:10.27]Keep these niggas right up out my lane
[02:11.87]I just wanna do this fucking music boy,
[02:13.43]Leave this dope alone and count my change
[02:15.34]Q I wanna see you do your thang
[02:16.63]Entertainment business living limelight
[02:18.87]Hop on every track and move them trains
[02:20.32]Show these motherfuckers that you been tight, then they ever been
[02:23.12]Its evident that you intelligent but you can't escape that life
[02:25.42]And for you my nigga
[02:26.54]I would sacrifice myself to make it just to see you hold the mic
[02:28.84]And hit the stage and rock the set
[02:30.53]But its hard to change when your from the set
[02:32.18]Won't you think about it nigga, life or death
[02:33.87]Like a cracker would like to hang you by the neck
[02:35.63]Do you wanna see the boys in jet,
[02:36.87]Or you wanna see them run way jets
[02:38.73]Fly to Singapore one way that, tell the pilot we got stacks on deck
[02:42.02]Swear to god, its hard out here for a young black men to live
[02:45.61]If you dont do it for yourself,
[02:47.05]Then please do it for your kids
[02:48.89]My nigga won't you tell Michelle,
[02:50.29]I love your daughter
[02:51.09]Please dont let her grow up life without a father
[02:52.48]Look at what you bought her, money couldn't buy
[02:54.18]All she need is love, put that shit aside
[02:55.83]At the same time know they got to eat
[02:57.52]Know you got to hustle, make ends meet
[02:59.02]Gotta make time, gotta get a grind,
[03:00.82]Gotta push the line, HTC, no a.c
[03:03.51]And the block hot, you keep runnin', cop say freeze
[03:05.95]Blue pill, red pill, choose now,
[03:08.45]Birds or the beez
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[03:20.75]Tired of the same ol' shit, niggas they faking it
[03:26.30]Niggas out here living foul
[03:27.94]Better yet they flagrant,
[03:29.69]Keep these niggas right up out the game
[03:31.33]Keep these niggas right up out my lane
[03:32.98]I just wanna do this fucking music boy,
[03:34.72]Leave this dope alone and count my change
[03:37.56]Count my change
[03:38.95]Count my change
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