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The light is there, yeah yeah |
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See I come from |
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Mississippi |
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I was young and runnin' wild |
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Ended up in |
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New York City, where |
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I had my first child |
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I named the boy |
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Nasir, all the boys call him |
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NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive |
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Let's go, hey hey hey hey |
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Tribrary of these rap skits, styles |
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I mastered |
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Many brothers snatched it up and tried to match it |
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But I'm still number one, everyday real |
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Speak what |
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I want, I don't care what y'all feel' |
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Cause I'm my own master |
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My Pop told me, "Be your own boss keep integrity at every cost" |
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And his home was |
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Natchez Mississippi |
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Did it like |
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Miles and |
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Dizzy, now we gettin' busy |
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Bridging The |
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Gap from the blues, to jazz, to rap |
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The history of music on this track |
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Born in the game, discovered my father's music |
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Like Prince searchin' through boxes of |
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Purple Rain |
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But my Minneapolis was |
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The Bridge, home of the |
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SuperkidsSome are well-known, some doin' bids |
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I mighta ended up on the wrong side of the tracks |
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If Pops wouldn't've pulled me back an said yo |
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See I come from |
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Mississippi |
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I was young and runnin' wild |
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Ended up in |
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New York City, where |
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I had my first child |
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I named the boy |
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Nasir, all the boys call him |
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NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive |
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Greatest man alive, gre-gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive |
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The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues |
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Slaves are harmonizin' them ah's and ooh's |
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Old school, new school, know school rules |
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All these years |
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I been voicin' my blues |
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I'm a artist from the start, hip-hop guided my heart |
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Graffiti on the wall, coulda ended in |
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Spoffard, juvenile delinquent |
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But Pops gave me the right type'a tools to think with |
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Books to read, like |
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X and stuff' |
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Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia |
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In art class |
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I was a compulsive sketcher of |
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Teachers in my homeroom, |
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I drew pix to mess them up' |
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Cause none'a them would like my style |
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Read more books than the curriculum profile |
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Said, "Mr. Jones please come get your child'Cause he's writin' mad poems and his verses are wild" |
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I was born in |
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Mississippi |
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I was young and runnin' wild |
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Moved to New |
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York City, where |
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I had my first child |
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I named the boy |
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Nasir, all the boys call him |
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NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive |
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Greatest man, the great-greatest man alive |
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Hey hey hey, my |
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Poppa was not a |
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Rollin' Stone |
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He been around the world blowin' his horn, still he came home |
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Then he got grown, changed his name to |
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OluCome on, tell 'em 'bout all the places you gone to |
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I been to |
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Saudi Arabia, |
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Mozambique |
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Madagascar, |
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Paris, Greece |
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The Middle |
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Africa is where we lived |
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Better known as |
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Queenbridge |
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Nas, Nas you don't stop |
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Olu Dara in the house, you don't stop |
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Muddy Waters' |
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Howling Wolf you don't stop |
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From the Blues to |
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Street Hop you don't stop |
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Tell 'em Pop |
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See I come from |
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Mississippi |
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I was young and runnin' wild |
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Ended up in |
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New York City, where |
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I had my first child |
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I named the boy |
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Nasir, all the boys call him |
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NasI told him as a youngster, he'll be the greatest man alive |
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Greatest man alive, gre-gre-gre-gre-greatest man alive |
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Rest in peace |
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Ray Charles |
