[00:00.37]What up dog  It's Murson
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[00:03.64]It seems like nobody's trying man
[00:05.86]There's kids dying in Sudan and nobody cares man
[00:08.02]At least I'm trying  man
[00:09.99]Look  don't ever let the fact that you can't be perfect
[00:12.30]Stop you from doing your best 'Murs for President'
[00:15.07]Unless we try the innocent'll die
[00:17.32]You can't close your eyes  keep living in a lie
[00:19.91]Look  we not helpless  we not hopeless
[00:22.84]Said a prayer for the homie whose locked up and wrote this
[00:25.67]He got to get out and change his ways
[00:27.84]While I'm looking for a way to explain these days
[00:31.01]It's trying time so I'm trying to rhyme
[00:33.25]But so many fascinated with this life of crime  hah
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[00:38.70]Look  I'm dying to be different
[00:40.18]Down to die to make a difference
[00:41.71]Music for the movement with a message  uplifting
[00:43.76]Went from set trippin' to trips around the world
[00:46.82]Opportunities are oysters  you might find a pearl
[00:49.89]You can't be scared to take that chance
[00:52.00]'Cuz if you rather knock twice then you're late for the dance
[00:54.85]You gotta move with urgency  assert with certainty
[00:58.01]Ask me if I'm set to serve  I say  certainly
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[01:03.43]Higher than the kite  I'm high off life
[01:05.48]At the height of my career  a high priest on mikes
[01:08.45]I'm anti thug and anti drugs
[01:11.02]Brought peace to the party and got anti love
[01:13.73]But haters so antiquated  I anticipated
[01:16.53]Accepted it internally at night interpolated
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[01:18.90]He chopped it up and laid it in a session and then he played it
[01:21.97]I wrote  recorded to it  now look what we created
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[01:27.81]A hot mess  I'm hot off the press
[01:29.88]You yesterday's news  dude  you just not fresh
[01:32.91]You cold coffee  you wet cigarettes
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[01:35.21]I'm a shot of Espresso and hot morning sex
[01:38.38]Early to rise and the last to fall
[01:40.45]The best thing for black youths is the basketball
[01:43.65]Word to Kurtis Blow  you gotta know the breaks
[01:45.82]And if you don't know your history  I know your fate
[01:50.16]Uh  look  been here a minute  be around a while longer
[01:54.22]Every rhyme invented  my style got stronger
[01:56.92]Grayskull Powers when I spray soul showers
[01:59.49]While you battle rap cats  just lay low cowards
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[02:02.39]Oh  you mad 'cause I'm stylin' on you
[02:04.93]Love songs one minute  then I'm whilin' on you
[02:07.89]That's the pain  you gotta love and appreciate
[02:10.58]I'm a bad man  you silly girls need to get it straight
[02:15.51]Hah  small guys  denying this is my world
[02:18.75]Your girlfriend call herself a dark skinned  white girl
[02:21.40]Got a nice beat  man  come on
[02:24.00]He hear me in the sample before he even through the drum on
[02:26.81]Run on sentence  I'm the best period
[02:29.39]He pull the track out  I'll black out I'm not hearing it
[02:32.21]Nada  nothing  the negative zone
[02:34.31]And if you can't do better  you should let it alone  hah
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[02:40.17]I want it more than you  I want it  I want it right now
[02:42.96]I'm wanted in 48 statees for this thou
[02:45.47]It's sicker than a syringe that's streamlined with strychnine
[02:48.21]Vegan diet  healthy heart and soul with a sick mind
[02:50.96]Inclined to flip split minds when I spit rhymes
[02:53.55]So go ahead kick yours and hope I don't kick mine
[02:56.32]A 50 yard line against the wind through the uprights
[02:58.76]While you just choke and can't win 'cuz you uptight
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[03:02.77]Hah  he came to the game with two emcees
[03:06.77]Back when people said you can't make beats on PCs
[03:09.58]Internet haters  major labels be damned
[03:12.55]Soon produced the full blown threat for the man
[03:14.98]Now his phone blowin' up  he can't hold it in his hand
[03:17.70]A few months back them fools didn't understand
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[03:20.32]I was Mary J and Erica  Jean Grey  etc
[03:22.83]But the name's 9th Wonder and he crushing all competitors
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[03:28.77]I cross train  toss brain fuel on hot tracks
[03:31.34]Burn in intelligent infernos  you got that
[03:34.12]I speak clear like the sample is in triplicates
[03:36.63]Get every crooked cop in Los Angeles to handle this
[03:39.33]Insane  inspired  insider street analyst
[03:42.17]Questioning authority who don't know what the answer is
[03:45.05]The voice is proof the choice of the youth
[03:47.22]Forensic evidence say the boy is the truth