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Talkin bout drama |
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I met a young brother, how young about eight |
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He seemed intelligent and rather quite straight |
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I greeted him, and struck a conversation |
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To see if the youngster had some self-motivation |
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Peace brother, what's your name, and how ya be |
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He said i be soon coming off the currency |
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I said gettin paid, he said yeah like my man's brother |
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Who has a condo he shares with his baby's mother |
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He said a condo beats my apartment |
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With no lights and no gas and much backed up rent |
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No hot water or heat, and invaded by plenty rats |
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That'll eat up the average alleycat |
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He said yeeahhhh boyyyeee, that's poverty |
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I said word, i know and it bothers me |
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Cuz we are the victims, of a situation |
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How wicked man, seperated |
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A nation and got us cold-killin off one another |
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(word-word, to the mother) |
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It's getting hot, how hot, hotter than july |
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Cuz the murder and crime rate is rising very high |
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For example, in my neighborhood, it's so hot |
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I'm often woke up, from the alarming sound of a shot |
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So i'm thinking what, is my neighborhood a trap |
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Could this be the place marked x on the map? |
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Now i'm spotted like a target, in the shooting gallery |
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So i start to seek for a better salary |
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So i can escape from where, from this ghetto life area |
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Cause everyday you're getting scarier |
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*blam blam* and scarier and scarier |
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Causing mass hysteria, it's drama |
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Talkin bout drama |
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Not to be bold and disrespect the homeless |
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Cuz i can see that they suffer from a long list |
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From not having shelter, and out on the street |
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Without a job and days without a bite to eat |
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Yo i feel for those, but here's another side |
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About some more people that's living on the outside |
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Because of the fact that they chose the wrong way |
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And it took em on a trip for a long day |
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Got to the point you started stealing from your house |
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Stalking the rooms late at night like a mouse |
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Your family's upset and you've got to go |
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When it's, five, below and we're ex-pecting snow |
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And then you're on the train with a cup in your hand |
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Kicking dirt, and making it look like sand |
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Then after you run that game for a while |
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You start sucking up tokens from out the turnstile |
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Are you that desperate, just to get a hit |
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Is it so effective that you won't quit, and yo |
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Why do you come to me crying the blues? |
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About you can't get a job well go sell some street news |
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Then you can get straight and be real |
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But you'd rather rob and steal |
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And that's drama |
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Talkin bout drama |
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Not wonderama |
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But i'm talkin bout drama |
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Here what i'm sayin? |
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I'm not talkin bout your mama |
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Nahhhh, but i'm talkin bout drama |
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Shaolin fist versus the llama |
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Talkin bout drama |
