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God is great! |
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Ghettos, America. U.S. to the izzay |
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Killa in the citywide sprizzay |
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Where there's sunshine in the shizzade |
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Church won't pull him out the pin like a grenade |
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For acting out their fears like a charade |
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'Til they blackin' out their tears like it's lights out |
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Bring em out the black like a lighthouse |
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And wave to em before they wiped out |
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Lifesaver, threw em, hope they catch it |
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But it's so Titanic to be iced out |
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That's just scratching the surface like triple axels |
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Want to roll around that Bentley like Crystal Castles |
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In addition to the chain |
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That's just to take the attention from the pain |
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Or is it the mission of the man |
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Audubon Ballroom, Motel Lorraine |
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Now white people, they can't say nigga |
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So I gotta take it back |
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Now black people, we're not niggas |
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God made us better than that |
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No break, ah wait |
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Little mayhem for your All-State, nay ham, all steak |
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Get a good ball great like a golf grade |
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Make the ball break |
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Just one swing, no putting |
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That's how I try 'n does things always |
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Especially when your past is |
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Martin, Baldwin, Audubon Ballroom |
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Turn the glass ceiling to a glass floor |
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Make a trampoline out of trapdoor |
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On that gasoline when I was back poor |
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Now they crafted out my dream underneath a tap floor |
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Backpack battle-cat underground rap lore |
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Anonymous but dominant - what's a Mac to a hacker |
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In other words, lyrical Zuckerbergs |
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Pimp you may move a mouse but what's a rat to a cat store |
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It's like a gig to an app store |
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I rap Black history, you can only see my past if you fast forward |
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Now white people, they can't say nigga |
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So I gotta take it back |
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Now black people, we're not niggas |
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God made us better than that |
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Black Panthers, black anthems, black blues |
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With black answers for black stanzas: Langston Hughes |
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Breaking rules, ain't it cool? |
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Took it old, and made it new |
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Black painters, musical black anger |
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Black mothers, beautiful black anchors |
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So let's hear it for 'em! Let's hear it for 'em! |
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Let's hear it for 'em! Let's hear it for 'em! |
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Black America! Trap America! |
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80s Babies! Crack America! |
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Rap America! Bad as Erykah! |
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From the era of family tearing up |
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But we just won big, can't be undid |
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Form a whole culture in just one kid |
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Miami dope boys, Oakland militants |
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Harlem Renaissance it's our deliverance |
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Now white people, they can't say nigga |
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So I gotta take it back |
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Now black people, we're not niggas |
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God made us better than that |