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I keep telling myself |
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Man I'm living the good life |
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I'm living the good life |
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I'm on top of the world |
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I'm on top of the world |
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I was born into poverty raised I the sewerage |
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Streets always would be a part of me, it made me the truest |
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And even when my days were the bluest |
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I never ran from adversity, instead I ran to it |
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Fear ain't in the heart of me I learned just do it |
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You get courage in your fears right after you go through it |
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Now I come through in a Coupe on 22s |
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That ain't bad for a nigga who ain't even finish school |
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Don't get me wrong I never been a fool |
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I just put off graduating for a pair of tennis shoes |
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I used to use the beat to paint my pain |
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But nowadays man I can't complain |
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I got several automobiles and they all on thangs |
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Several size of tangent and they all in one chain |
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Used to see me in the mall I'm the same |
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And get a couple broads giving brain on the plane |
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I come from Chi-Town lost and found in the struggle |
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Where dudes say stay safe and stay out of trouble |
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Speak is muffed the law and B gon try to cuff you |
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Those with duffles move weight and have muscles |
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I came through the dirt with a verse for the people |
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Open up for Daddy Kane and Easy up at the Regal |
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The radio rarely put their needle on my record |
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They ain't see how the hood and heaven were connected |
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Sounds projected, ain't show how effective |
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Lessons learned, sessions turned to life reflected |
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And everything I found real in life know I kept it |
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They say life's a teacher, you're gonna get tested |
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When a nigga changed they keep saying that nigga strange |
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Couldn't see how my mind won't be the lame |
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Ahead of my time I caught up with the game |
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Making good music making paper making change |
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I put on gasoline drawers I stood in the fire |
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With enough heat to set the hood on fire |
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Man you niggaz think Suge was off the wire |
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You should've seen the squad before I had Messiah |
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We assumed the title as the number one supplier |
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Felt like I was selling blow since I was in diapers |
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And wish a nigga would come try us |
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We was cool with the killers, best friends with the lifers |
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Quick to up and scrap with niggaz who want to deny |
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For what we considered then as a lucrative empire |
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But like that pimping time flash by you |
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Now I wonder what the judge think as he reading my priors |
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Prison ain't full and the reefer ain't bias |
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You ain't got to tell and distant the liars |
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Gave the jail hell and shot birds at the hearse |
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Lived through worse and reversed the curse |