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Work In Progress Nappy Roots |
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Wise words bein' spoke huh y' all know what it is |
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Nap nappy roots can I start this one off okay |
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Each day I listen what the streets say |
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Like a DJ my negroes scratch ghetto recording' s |
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For my peoples got the eyes of an eagle |
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Can' t see us ever bein' at peace for a reason ' cause we ain' t |
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Never bein' equal they got us believin' we heathens uncivil soldiers |
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Of evil reach up and assume the position |
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You know the procedure |
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Can' t even leisure smoke hollow reefer without police |
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And search and seizure by the same police who murdered creaser |
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It' s brutal |
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Seein' them treat us like lower creatures than human beings more |
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So like aliens tourin' the land of Europeans |
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Seemin' to have the tendency to think we ignorant |
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' Cause of our pigment can' t take away |
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A niggas dignity though still I pimp the industry hoe and even when |
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I' m rich I' m a pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress soon to be |
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End of the road but I don' t stress cause I have been her before |
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You know |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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And even though I' m rich I' m gonna pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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But I don' t stress ' cause I have been here before |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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And even though I' m rich I' m gonna pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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But I don' t stress ' cause I have been here before |
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In life every step you take every right every left you make |
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You can look at it like chess in a way ' cause life is best when |
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You take your time don' t make a move unless you done made up |
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Your mind play by the rules don' t ever play the fool |
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Sometimes you play and lose but you still pay your dues |
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Come on |
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Everybody knows the cost to be the boss |
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Yeah the price is kind of steep but sacrifice is never cheap |
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I learned that life can be sweet |
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And bitter at the same time it' s the ying verse the yang |
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Sorta like rain without shine |
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Sometimes against the grain you grind |
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Gotta grit your teeth and bear it |
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Matthew 5verse 5the earth the meek shall inherit |
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Cherish the day before you perish away ' cause who can say |
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How many days your power last |
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It' s like a crack in your hourglass |
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In a flash the hours pass |
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Then you' re gone gone gone |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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And even though I' m rich I' m gonna pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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But I don' t stress ' cause I have been here before |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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And even though I' m rich I' m gonna pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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Like there long life livin' get will bring you close you dyin' |
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The more laughs one had will bring you close to cryin' |
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Cold unforgiving planet yea it is racists and communicatin' |
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Those who wrong did |
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I daydream back to the 80' s when we was all kids |
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A stab wound kidnappin' but experience though at the time |
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Not a glock would blow in da wind it' s a good day in the hood |
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To witness a stabbin' now stories told to us |
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Without tragedy seem like |
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It involve bloodshed automatically |
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If you ever get a chance |
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Just stop and use your mind observe the world for yourself and ju |
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Your time |
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Yeah oh yeah that' s right |
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Smoke somethin' with your country people |
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Drank somethin' with your country people |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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Thinkin' back in junior high when sex was the sh t |
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Fein' p sy now a day can get you killed quick |
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' Bout shootin' ball in now they ' bout getting licks |
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I' m playin' nappy roots just to hear the realest sh t |
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Expect it to the best of my know how and my rapping wit |
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See next to nothing sugar coated in these cold streets |
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Whatever you do be smart tote your heat |
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Did I mention if you don' t work you don' t eat |
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If you ever get a chance stop and use your mind |
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Observe the world for yourself and check the time |
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Yea smoke somethin' with your country people |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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And even though I' m rich I' m gonna pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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But I don' t stress ' cause I have been here before |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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And even though I' m rich I' m gonna pretend to be poor |
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My life' s a work in progress |
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But I don' t stress ' cause I have been here before |
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But I don' t stress ' cause I have been here before |