[00:26.44]Yeah  everything  everything was the same
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[00:35.17]I'm old enough to know better  young enough to not give a f**k
[00:38.55]Rather hold my head high and die  then live and duck
[00:41.60]I gotta' set it off  Jada Queen and Vivica
[00:43.75]The last chick was scared to get that money  I can't live like her
[00:47.21]Got no problem with you niggas  get it how you live it  bruh
[00:50.04]It's a cold world  these mean streets will shiver ya'
[00:52.90]All I asks is for the same respect that I be givin' ya
[00:55.57]If not my boy will put the beats on you  Karen Civil ya
[00:58.39]That boy be on his shoot first  never mind the trivia
[01:01.35]My advice  don't mess with his man  word to Nivea
[01:04.48]We go back to when we got that white from Bolivia
[01:06.68]We was candy shopping before 50 and Olivia
[01:10.31]That's when you would go uptown  cause you had to re' there
[01:13.67]Everybody broke back then  you had to repair
[01:16.15]Drug dealing was cool back then  you had to beware
[01:19.08]That was the 90's  ya'll wouldn't get it  you had to be there
[01:22.18]That's why I'm glad to be here  some of us never made it
[01:24.66]It's hard to get off the ground  ya'll think I just levitated
[01:27.80]Ya'll think it was all love and nobody ever hated
[01:30.47]Y'all think cause I never state it I never been devastated
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[01:33.42]All ya'll see is sunshinin'  think I was never shadedd
[01:36.37]Ya' think these calendar models is all that I ever dated
[01:39.44]Nigga  nothing was the same  HOT 97 played it
[01:42.19]Every day they made it that I stayed with 57 plated
[01:44.81]Can't trust nobody  the crib is heavy gated
[01:48.22]You ask  "why " I tell them even heaven's gated
[01:50.89]You know why  Cause when you good the  devil hate it
[01:54.87]And even if you heavy weighted people want you feather weighted
[01:56.94]Attention I never payed it  me and this clever lady
[01:59.84]She brains  do some thangs  then we lay together faded
[02:03.04]And while I chill  loaded up a steel
[02:05.74]Just wishin' a nigga would but knowin' a nigga will
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[02:09.39]But for real nigga good is how you feel
[02:11.57]But soon as a nigga good is as soon as a nigga will
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[02:15.14]Still  I don't owe these niggas nothing  put that in a nigga will
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[02:21.17]Damned if you do them  if you don't  don't don't don't
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[02:26.35]You're damned if you do them  if you don't
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[02:32.20]But they don’t have a heaven or hell to put you through
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[02:38.17]People sit around and judge you anyway
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[02:43.81]Don't  don't don't