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Uh, you know I still run with that, |
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that blood of a slave |
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Boiling in my veins |
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It's just hot until a nigga |
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can't take it no more |
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Blood of a slave, Heart of a King |
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Turn my voice up |
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Ayo, the brother is "Stillmatic" |
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I crawled up out of that grave, |
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wiping the dirt, cleaning my shirt |
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They thought I'll make another "Illmatic" |
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But it's always forward I'm moving |
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Never backwards stupid here's another classic |
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C-Notes is falling from the sky |
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By now the credits roll starring |
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Nas executive poet, produced, |
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directed by |
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The Kid slash Escobar |
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Narration describes the lives and |
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laws tribes in the ghetto trying to survive |
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The feature opens with |
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this young black child |
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Finger scratch, cigarette burns on the sofa, |
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turning the TV down |
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Mary Jane girls, 45's playing, |
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soft in the background |
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Poof from C-Town's mornings was hash browns |
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Stepped over dope fiends, |
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walking out the door, all of us paw |
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I learned the difference between the snitches, |
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the real ones, and who's soft |
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And the murderous, hungriest crews |
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People jumping from roofs, |
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shotguns pumping made it through my youth |
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Walking very thin lines, ages seven and nine |
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That's the age I was on my album cover, |
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this is the rebirth |
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I know the streets thirst water like Moses |
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Walking through the ho |
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t desert searching to be free |
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This is my end and my new beginning Nostalgia |
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Alpha and Omega places, |
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it's like a glitch in the matrix |
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I seen it at all, did it all, most of |
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y'all been pop for a minute |
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Spitters, sinners and the game get rid of y'all |
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Y'all got there but y'all didn't get it all |
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, I want my style back |
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Hate to cease y'all plan it's the rap repo-man |
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To them double up hustlers, |
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bidders, niggas who real |
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Professionals, stick up |
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child's dreaming for meals |
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Let my words guide you, get inside you |
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From Crips to Pirus this is survival |
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Blood of a Slave, Heart of a King |
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Blood of a Slave, Heart of a King |
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Uh, uh Blood of a Slave, Heart of a King |
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Uh, yea |
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Huh, Braveheart |
