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Know the boy D-Double do it all day |
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Get the messing with his tracks, no foreplay |
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Seems simple now but it wasn't always |
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Used to sit up in the Pap High hallways |
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Teacher put me there saying that I talk to much |
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I thought I knew it all but I never knew much |
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I come to school late because my form room sucked |
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And we hang out by the canteen all through lunch |
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Young teen with a pac(men)tality |
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No dream I can make reality |
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All I care about is popularity |
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Trying to pass Jessica trying to get a touch |
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And a Mufti day try them with some new Chucks |
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Try them with some new Nikes or something |
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They didn't give a fuck about assignments or nothing |
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Didn't make music even though I loved it |
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Scared to try , high to shy get busted(?) |
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So I sit on the sideline |
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Despite in my time |
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If I could be in their shoes |
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The things that id do |
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But wishing won't get you know where |
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Dont be scared to go there |
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If you sit in my wake |
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Do it the right way |
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(yeah ya) |
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No I wasn't in the first fifteen |
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Wasn't in the choir, Never learned to sing |
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Couldn't play an instrument or pluck a string |
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Or the little rich kid whos dad bought him a car |
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A regular dude fading in to the background |
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Never took center stage, didn't really stand out |
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I remember school TalentQuest |
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We would hang out see this other dude rap |
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Then he'd be the man around E block |
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For like the next two weeks, scoring all of the chicks |
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While these Diggas my mom bought, are falling to bits |
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And I'm off in detention, for ignoring Mr. Smitts |
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And this bitch mocked me in class for having big lips |
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It was a hard knock life for a kid |
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Till I realized that a life isn't lived |
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If you're worrying about what other people might think of it |
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Don't sleep on this little boy's raps because he might be a hit |
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So I sit on the sideline |
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Despite in my time |
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If I could be in their shoes |
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The things that id do |
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But wishing won't get you know where |
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Dont be scared to go there |
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If you sit in my wake |
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Do it the right way |
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Dont let it go by |
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There ain't no reason known why |
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Youre waiting around |
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You could be a star |
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Just watch from a far |
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Just stop waiting around |
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School finished did a little bit of growing up |
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But it wasn't like music was blowin' up |
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Shy as ever figured out I had to grow some nuts |
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And put my self out there, so they know whats up |
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And yeah I was pretty scared what they might say |
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They FENZ at it and say its bad in a nice way |
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Or I wasn't doing it the right way |
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But there ain't no right or wrong |
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Got one life to live and it ain't that long |
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So you gotta stay strong, gotta stay on |
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Another day sittin', wishin is another day gone |
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Another day doing dishes, or just mowing up the lawn |
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Coludve been another day that another star was born |
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So I sit on the sideline |
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Despite in my time |
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If I could be in their shoes |
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The things that id do |
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But wishing won't get you know where |
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Dont be scared to go there |
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If you sit in my wake |
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Do it the right way |
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Dont be scared man |
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Dont worry too much about what people are going to say |
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Because at the end of the day |
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The only person who still thinks about that stuff is you |
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Ya know? |