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Yo what's up Marco |
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What's up Brooklyn |
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Filthy rich |
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People in the audience Masta Ace the name |
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I write rhymes and insert them inside your vein |
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They run through your bloodstream get inside your brain |
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Cause I first put my name up inside the train |
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My mic control has been unprecendented |
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And you wrong if you thought you was was the best that did it |
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See I just started messing with it I been married to the game since '88 |
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You just commited |
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The entire fate of the whole Empire States |
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Into hands of a man that's here to inspire hate |
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Heed for the state of the music |
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And all these other cats looking for another way to abuse it |
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I wake you up like a gun in the face |
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I'm just here to let you know who's like running the place |
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And everywhere that I preform and do a show |
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As long as you know |
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This is for those that don't know the half |
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Backtrack turn back the page |
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Let me show y'all new rappers |
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That's how the game go |
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This is for those that don't know the half |
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Backtrack turn back the page |
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Don't be missing any word I say |
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You love to hear the story again and again |
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How it all got started from beginning to end |
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When cats used to run in a pack and slaughter |
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The rooftop Union Square and the latin quarter |
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And if you came alone than your chain was gone |
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Unless you was from the hood and your name was known |
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Yap |
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And even than you was taking a risk |
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They would rush you for your chain while you was taking a piss |
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Hip hop used to be so thick in the air |
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When it was there you ain't even needed to kick in a snare |
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It could have been finger snaps and hand claps |
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But nowadays it feels a little different when a man raps |
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The track commence and these cats are french |
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The media lacking sense what I rap's intense AND |
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I be the best in these rap events |
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And how I got this far |
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It's called experience come on |
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Yo it's the Ace in the flesh of course I'm fresh |
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Oh you thought that I was rotten |
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Huh you must have gotten a bad sack of w**d cause I track your speed |
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I run up fondle your wife and smack your seed |
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I've been a star since Pat Benatar |
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And I still want the house the boat the truck AND the car |
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The limousine with the big screen and the bar |
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I'm trying to eat watch it pour on like vine-gar |
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Cause I'm old and grey control the day |
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I'm kinda like the light cause I show the way |
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I'm the one to collect the fonds and hold the pay |
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The kind that fold away than I stroll the way |
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S**t I can't name all the hits we charted |
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That crazy a*s Crooklyn a*s s**t we got it |
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We came here tonight to get started |
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To go act I'll and get re-tarded |
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In this rap game |
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This might be my last |
