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Damn, take a ride, to my block |
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My block, that's right! Heh |
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F'real on my mother******g block |
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They got a ************* |
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Shedding tears, reminiscing on my past fears |
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Cause *************t was hectic for me last year |
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It appears that I've been marked for death, my heartless breath |
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The underlying cause of my arrest, my life is stressed |
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And no rest forever weary, my eyes stay teary |
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for all the brothers that are buried in the cemetery |
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*************t is scary, how black on black crime legendary |
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But at times unnecessary, I'm getting worried |
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Teardrops and closed caskets, the three strikes law is drastic |
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And certain death for us ghetto bastards |
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What can we do when we're arrested, but open fire |
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Life in the pen ain't for me, cause I'd rather die |
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But don't cry through your despair |
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I wonder if the Lord still cares, for us *************s on welfare |
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And who cares if we survive |
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The only time they notice a ************* is when he's clutching on a four-five |
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My neighborhood ain't the same |
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Cause all these little babies going crazy and they suffering in the game |
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And I swear it's like a trap |
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But I ain't given up on the hood, it's all good when I go back |
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Hoes show me love, *************s give me props |
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Forever hop cause it don't stop... on my block |
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Living life is but a dream |
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Hard times is all we see (on my block) |
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Every block is kinda mean |
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But on our block we still prayyyyyy |
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But on our block we still prayyyyyy... |
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Now *************t's constantly hot, on my block, it never fails to be gunshots |
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Can't explain a mother's pain, when her son drops |
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Black male slipping in hail when will we prevail |
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Fearing jail but crack sales got me living well |
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And the system's suicidal with this Thug's Life |
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Staying strapped forever trapped in this drug life |
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God help me, cause I'm starving, can't get a job |
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So I resort to violent robberies, my life is hard |
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Can't sleep cause all the dirt make my heart hurt |
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Put in work and shed tears for my dead peers |
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Mislead from childhood where I went astray |
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Till this day I still pray for a better way |
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Can't help but feel hopeless and heartbroke |
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From the start I felt the racism cause I'm dark |
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Couldn't quit the bull*************t make me represent |
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Hit the bar and played the star, everywhere I went |
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In my heart, I felt alone out here on my own |
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I close my eyes and picture home... on my block |
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Living life is but a dream |
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Hard times is all we see (on my block) |
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Every block is kinda mean |
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But on our block we still prayyyyyy |
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But on our block we still prayyyyyy... |
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And I can't help but wonder why, so many young kids had to die |
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Caught strays from AK's and the drive by AK |
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Swollen pride and homicide, don't coincide |
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Brothers cry for broken lives, mama come inside |
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Cause our block is filled with danger |
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Used to be a close knit community but now we're all cold strangers |
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Time changes us to stone them crack pipes |
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All up and down the block exterminating black life |
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But I can't blame the dealers |
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My mama's welfare check has brought the next man chrome wheels |
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*************t's real, I know ya feel, my tragedy |
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A single mother with a problem child, daddy free |
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Hanging out picking up game, sipping cheap liquor |
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Gamin the hoochies hoping I can get to sleep with her |
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It's a man's world, staying strapped |
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Fantasies of a ************* living phat, but held back |
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Pipe dreams can make the night seem hopeless |
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Wide eyed and losing focus... on my block |
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Living life is but a dream |
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Hard times is all we see |
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Every block is kinda mean |
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But on our block we still prayyyyyy |
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But on our block we still prayyyyyy... |
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And block parties in the projects lasting way past daylight |
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A young ************* learned to break night |
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Used to play fight with my homies but they stuck in the pen |
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I send them ends, but it's tough on a friend, in my mind |
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I see the same mother******s balling |
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Alcohol will make a lazy ************* slip and fall, miss his call |
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I know the young *************s understand this |
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Growing up in this world where everything is scandalous |
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I reminisce on the fast times, past crimes |
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Trying to cop a slice of pizza with my last dime |
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Can't explain, just what attracts me to this dirty game |
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Gold chains, some extra change, and the street fame |
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And what's strange is everybody knows my name, swear they all know me |
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And lots of cash make a ************* change |
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I hit the green just to maintain, feeling pain |
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For all the *************s that I lost to the game... from my block |
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2Pac - speaking over Chorus |
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Rest in peace to all the mother******s who passed away |
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From all the blocks that I'm from |
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One-twelve street, 7th Avenue, New York, Uptown, knahmsayin? |
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183rd and Walt, my block, that's right |
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122nd and Morningside, my block, that's right |
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Decatur Avenue, Baltimore, my block, that's right |
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In the jungle of Marin City, that's my block, that's right |
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Los Angeles, haha, that's my block too |
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Oakland, can't forget Oaktown, that's my block for sure |
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And all the other blocks around this mother****** |
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Houston, Florida, St. Louis, Tennessee, Miami, Chicago |
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All y'all *************s stay kicking up dust |
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Represent the mother******g block |
