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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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(XV)Three women raised me |
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Famous Footwear paid me not enough to blow up |
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But showed up cause I ain't fuckin' lazy |
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And teachers thought I was dumb or crazy |
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Or both |
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With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z |
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I slumped, in my chair and my grades |
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My head wasn't raised |
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Being fly was priority to the lowest |
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I would stand on my desk just to see the world in a different way |
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The dead society of a poet |
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Homie I'm focused |
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But there's something that a dude can't prove |
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I mean fam, I was damn near invisible at school |
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So I banged for a minute |
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Cause all my niggas was crippin' |
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Just me and my two of my dudes, blue man crew |
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Had dreams of doing things they say that you can't do |
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Cause everything ain't black and white, 'less you chew bamboo |
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So I was after big bills like a toucan do |
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All the while my mom askin' why I'm truant at school |
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She said |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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Uhh, So why ain't I go to college |
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My mommas ultimatum made me say that I know I got it |
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My niggas said V's buggin' |
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Stay on your computer software, debugging |
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But we holding hardware cause we thuggin' |
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Now they in the trap-house with some guns that they done borrowed |
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And all this snow, I call it Infant Sorrow |
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With plans to reach the end even if I had to start slow |
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Sold CDs in the mall, making dough like Sbarro |
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Then I left the hood, like fuck it don't need the cargo |
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They banking I don't do well, and I don't mean Fargo |
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But even when you leave, somehow it still try to follow |
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Baby brother took a charge harder than LeBron and Rondo |
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Trying to keep his head up while his eyes are in the Bible |
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Cause they say a mind that's idle is a devil's toy aisle |
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My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol |
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I looked at him, told him sit down |
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This information is vital, look |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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(Kendrick:)Living my life like I'm living right |
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In the midst of a fire pit |
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The gang-banging and violence, is the sweetest song |
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And I roam with the heart of a violin |
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Don't violate my patience I'm waiting, to kill a man |
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As I stare at the ceiling fan, as a fan of these wicked streets |
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If I gotta eat, I steel like a metal piece |
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I'm screamin' out fuck the police |
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I'm dealing my cards with Jokers on em |
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You can disown him or stone him |
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I'm throwing them rocks back, with the fury of bullets |
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You couldn't live your life for the moment |
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When I'm foamin' at the mouth |
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And my sharpest of teeth showin' |
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I'm in the back of a black Buick |
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Finna black out, like February |
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Ain't that's how Black's do it, right |
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I cut off my ears before I hear your advice and vice versa |
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I'm screaming for help, as loud as I can but that's not working |
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I'm working them corners like blueprints |
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Then caught an L on my first offence |
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The judge threw the book at me |
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And said this |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
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There, there, baby |
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It's just textbook stuff |
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It's in the ABC, of growin' up |
