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Freedom, ignorance, jealousy, belligerence |
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Anger, self-control, tolerance, to and fro |
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Wisdom, ecstasy, addiction, dependency |
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Discipline, counteract, pray for peace then attack |
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Dominance, contradict, upper class, derelict |
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Downgrade, downsize, upstate, uprise |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Downtown on the block, at the club steaming hot |
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Dancing, talking shit, telling lies like a pimp |
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Meanwhile underpaid, read like second grade |
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Uncle Sam, sign you up, benefits and a gun |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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African people, oh, African people |
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Oh, African people, oh, African people |
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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun |
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Rise up, over-stand, stand your ground, own your land |
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Serve all, love all, never sleep, never fall |
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Meditate, eat right, pray first then fight |
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But for truth not for fame, not for glory or the game |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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African people, African people |
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African people, African people |
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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun |
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Liberia, Iraq, dark brown, light black |
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South Africa, Mozambique, mud hut, concrete |
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Aids ridden, heart disease, strange fruit, southern trees |
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Sierra Leone, diamond mines, Cameroon, pipe lines |
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Port-au-Prince, Salvador, civil right, civil war |
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Zimbabwe, trench town, money makin', Queen's bound |
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B X, Shaolin, uptown, Brooklyn, upstate, Newburgh |
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Unseen, unheard |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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Now tell me, where my niggas at? |
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African people, African people |
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African people, African people |
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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun |
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African people, African people, African people |