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Yo D, what? Come on (Yeah) |
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What? What? Come on (Yeah) |
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"Give me the fortune, keep the fame," said my man Louis |
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I agreed, know what he mean because we live the truest lie |
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I asked him why we follow the law of the bluest eye |
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He looked at me, he thought about it, was like, "I'm clueless, why?" |
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The question was rhetorical, the answer is horrible |
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Our morals are out of place and got our lives full of sorrow |
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And so tomorrow coming later than usual |
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Waiting on someone to pity us while we finding beauty in the hideous |
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They say money's the root of all evil but I can't tell |
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You know what I mean, pesos, francs, yens, cowrie shells, dollar bills |
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Or is it the mindstate that's ill? |
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Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build |
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Over money and religion there's more blood to spill |
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The wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal, what's the deal? |
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A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke |
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But my language universal they be reciting my quotes |
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While R&B singers hit bad notes, we rock the boat of thought |
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That my man Louis' statements just provoked |
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Caught up, in conversations of our personal worth |
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Brought up, through endangered species status on the planet Earth |
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Survival tactics means, busting gats to prove you hard |
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Your firearms are too short to box with God |
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Without faith, all of that is illusionary |
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Raise my son, no vindication of manhood necessary |
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Not strong (Only aggressive) |
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Not free (We only licensed) |
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Not compassionate, only polite (Now who the nicest?) |
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Not good but well behaved |
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(Chasing after death, so we can call ourselves brave?) |
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Still living like mental slaves |
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life |
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice |
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life |
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice |
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Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listening agree |
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That everything you see ain't really how it be |
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A lot of jokers out running in place, chasing the style |
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Be a lot going on beneath the empty smile |
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Most cats in my area be loving the hysteria |
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Synthesized surface conceals the interior |
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America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages |
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More than usually, speaking loudly |
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Saying nothing, you confusing me, you losing me |
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Your game is twisted, want me enlisted in your usury |
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Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly |
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Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception |
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Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the looking glass |
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Walking the street, wondering who they be looking past |
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Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on |
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Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on |
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Same song, just remixed, different arrangement |
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Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship |
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Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this |
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Screaming "brand new", when they just sanitized the old shit |
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Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick |
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That they been running across stars through all the time with |
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I find it's distressing, there's never no in-between |
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We either niggas or Kings, we either bitches or Queens |
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The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse |
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Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts |
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Long barrel automatics released in short bursts |
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The length of black life is treated with short worth |
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Get yours first, them other niggas secondary |
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That type of illing that be filling up the cemetery |
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This life is temporary but the soul is eternal |
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Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you |
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Not strong, only aggressive cause the power ain't directed |
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That's why we are subjected to the will of the oppressive |
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Not free, we only licensed, not live, we just exciting |
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Cause the captors own the masters to what we writing |
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Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained |
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Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game |
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Not good, but well behaved cause the camera survey |
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Most of the things that we think, do or say |
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We chasing after death just to call ourselves brave |
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But everyday, next man meet with the grave |
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I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy |
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I'm trying to live life in the sight of God's memory like that y'all |
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A lot of people don't understand the true criteria of things |
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Can't just accept the appearance, have to get the true essence |
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(They ain't looking around) |
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Not strong (Only aggressive) |
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Not free (We only licensed) |
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Not compassionate, only polite (Now who the nicest?) |
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Not good but well behaved |
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(Chasing after death, so we can call ourselves brave?) |
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Still living like mental slaves |
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life |
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice |
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life |
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice(x2) |
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Stop hiding, stop hiding, stop hiding yo' face |
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Stop hiding, stop hiding, cause ain't no hiding place |
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(Ad libs to fade) |
