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[ti:Southside] |
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[ar:Common] |
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[al:Finding Forever] |
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Southside - Common |
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Everybody say say |
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I know you I know you |
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I know you're thinking thinking that it must be |
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I'm a raw flow 'cause it never get rusty |
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I ain't gotta say it man dawg trust me |
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Bust somebody head TLC where was we |
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Still rock the Prada 'fore that rock the Starter |
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Niggas out in Georgetown and Magic way harder |
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Thinking back to the projects and |
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They way they tore 'em all up |
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Like when I do a project and come back |
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And tear the mall up |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside south Side of the broads |
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The cars the half moon the stars |
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I'm like Jeff Fort the way I get behind bars |
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Burn CDs with no regard for the stars |
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Come to the grip with conflict diamonds |
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And the arts Back in '94 they call me Chi-Town's Nas |
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Now them niggas know I'm one of Chi-Town's gods |
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We even yo you still talking no cops |
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A conscious nigga with mac like Steven Jobs |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside side of the Chi |
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Your fly is open McFly |
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The crowd is open I think I know why |
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I'm back from the future seen it with my own eyes |
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And yep I'm still the future of the Chi Back in college |
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I had to get my back up off the futon |
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I knew that I couldn't cop a coup with no coupons |
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Look at that neutron on his green like two dimes |
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People asking him "Do you have any gray poupon " |
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We coming from the |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside southside |
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Side of the Chi You in the building but the building's falling |
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You wouldn't be balling if your name is Spalding |
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My mind get flooded I think about New Orleans |
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Back in school y'all niggas you should |
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Call him August I'm the sun that goes down |
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But I'm still revolving |
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Southside 'bout to walk it out I still get crawling |
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If rap was Harlem I'd be James Baldwin |
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With money in the bank like G Rap we're calling |
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We coming from the |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside southside of the Chi |
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With niggas masked up like Phantom of the Opera |
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Dreaming of the day they push a phantom to the operas |
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Can't wait 'til they say "Yeah he ran up at the Oscars" |
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Poppa I heard his life is like a movie |
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Like when Em' played him and Mekhi played a rasta |
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Mexicans don't love it like it was for La Raza |
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But this is for the mobsters holla |
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We some true Chi-Town legends |
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Accept no imposters We coming from the |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside southside of |
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The Chi The un-American Idol Tower like the Eiffel |
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'Lean Wit it Rock Wit It' black like the Disciples |
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Know when to use a Bible and when to use a rifle |
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You rap like you should be on the back of a |
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Motorcycle Caught a case of robbery |
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And 'Beat It' like Michael |
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Your career is a typo mine was written like a haiku |
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I write to 'Do the Right Things' like Spike do |
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Through conflicts is crucial and trauma is psycho |
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We coming from the |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside |
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Southside southside southside of the |
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Chi We're coming from the |