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Uh Yeah |
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Ayo Prim' man |
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I be hollering at these cats man, you know |
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Trying to make them understand the realness in this here game man you know |
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This how serious it is on these streets |
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Yo check it, uh... |
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Verse 1 |
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Survival of the Fittest today, that's still the test |
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I seen em kill the best, in this ghetto wilderness |
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It's real in the field, cause they bring the drama hard |
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Guliani got me off, looking like it's Amistad |
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Be whatever's clever, with the thought of slipping |
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Thug's start to flipping, black women resort to stripping |
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When they say, the drug game's dead, that's not a fable |
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Hustler's is locked down, or either got a label |
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Either try to keep the heat on ya, on the street corner |
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Ya sleep, a week later, your peeps mourn ya |
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Stick up kids, pudding in working in pea's |
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Your food stamps feed the next cat Turkey and Cheese |
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Aint no devourance, I speak it now in defense |
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I'm only here to make dollar, outta knowledge, power, sense |
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So be about the paper, till your pockets are full |
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Please stop with the bull, less is profitable, come on... |
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Chorus |
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Making moves any type of way |
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Straight gutter from the ghetto to the burb |
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Take it back to the days of... |
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Do or Die |
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Straight from Bedstuy |
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Know what I'm sayin |
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Making moves any type of way |
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Straight gutter from the ghetto to the burb |
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Put these rapper's under pressure, till they break |
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Ya'll know who this is |
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You know |
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Verse 2 |
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If you in this for the cheddar, you better get it fast |
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Cause in another minute, aint gon be no middle class |
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What you think this shit will last, time to Monopolize |
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Streets got lots of guys, and I know we got the size |
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What I prophesize, is the way to start the rise |
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Cross the T's, dot the I's, and we will not demise |
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I come through the door, four four's to get at your's |
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The Eye of the Tiger, no, I'm coming with the claws |
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It's my chance to get the finance, so why dance |
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With proper guidance, To take it to the next high stance |
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I'm tryin to live Incredible, get dat revenue |
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Thinking ahead of you, that's your girl, let her through |
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What you better do, is try to chase the paper |
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Society will rape ya, when you fight forces of nature |
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I been walked that path before, so I do feel you |
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The early bird will get the worm, and drink it with Tequila |
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Ya heard... |
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Chorus |
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Making moves any type of way |
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Straight gutter from the ghetto to the burb |
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Take it back to the days of... |
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Do or Die |
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Straight from Bedstuy |
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Know what I'm sayin |
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Making moves any type of way |
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Straight gutter from the ghetto to the burb |
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Put these rapper's under pressure, till they break |
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Ya'll know who this is |
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You know |
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Verse 3 |
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I've been sitting outside, building with this O.G. |
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Never will I forget the jewels, that he told me |
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He said when you holding, never show your wins |
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In this ghetto, your friends flip on you like Doberman's |
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Dat buldge in your pocket I see, you better hide |
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While you at it, tuck that medallion inside |
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Forget the microphone, you need the iron we squeeze |
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So you can, clap four like Siamese seals |
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Distrust and greed, this was indeed |
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Given by the man's, and know we living by the land |
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And life I tackle, with my soul trapped inside this Tabernackle |
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The only thing that's missing is the shackle's |
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Do what we gotta, to enterprise with the dollar |
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Create a different aura, for the children of tommorow |
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Therefore Rakim's style, to make my cash |
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Come to me in big piles, and I'm out like 6 files |
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Ya heard... |
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Chorus |
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Making moves any type of way |
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Straight gutter from the ghetto to the burb |
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Take it back to the days of... |
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Do or Die |
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Straight from Bedstuy |
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Know what I'm sayin |
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Making moves any type of way |
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Straight gutter from the ghetto to the burb |
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Put these rapper's under pressure, till they break |
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Ya'll know who this is |
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You know |
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