[00:02.11]Yo, what up dough?
[00:03.92]Y'all listening to Elmatic
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[00:06.55]Fire that weed up and put it in the air, yeah
[00:11.47]Represent, represent
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[00:13.73]Represent, represent
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[00:16.23]Represent, represent
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[00:20.73]Straight up, shit is real, and any day could be your last when you pass
[00:23.54]Your sand has dropped, now your hourglass in the flash
[00:26.05]The corners is where they pitch rock to move into a rich block
[00:28.80]Find somebody up in your crib, you gotta switch locks
[00:31.30]Niggas pull triggers and ditch Glocks over things a bitch jock
[00:34.55]It's sick as a Hitchcock flick
[00:36.17]To be the big shot looks appealing, the life of crooks
[00:38.90]Getting money off the books, **** a shook civilian
[00:41.10]We took the ill and then mistook the feeling, of climbing to the top
[00:44.41]Staying when you don't know where the cops laying
[00:46.35]Loading guns, pop, spraying
[00:47.92]just to get the hands on your clock to stop swaying
[00:50.54]Enough to cause both of your knees to drop, praying niggas stop playing
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[00:54.24]cause I was told to represent
[00:55.74]by OGs claiming the D and repping Flint
[00:58.43]Pushing old school whips on 20s that kept a tint
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[01:02.84]Represent, represent
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[01:05.00]Elzhi,
[01:05.69]Represent, represent
[01:06.88]Will Sessions,
[01:07.94]Represent, represent
[01:09.13]no doubt
[01:10.57]Represent, represent
[01:12.57]Yo, they call me El', I'm not your legal type of fellow
[01:15.13]Bong smoker, pipe inhaler, keep a strong poker-
[01:17.19]-face, playing my cards right, **** a case, cops will run in your place
[01:20.75]for hard white, treat you wrong, poke ya
[01:22.94]with the nightstick, I know these snitches telling, in fact
[01:25.19]I'm smelling a rat, and the aroma's quite thick
[01:27.50]They shut down your light, lick right quick
[01:29.38]Charging you with shit that might stick
[01:31.38]Thought you was Frank White slick, the joke's on
[01:33.63]all you little niggas with locs on
[01:35.32]counting your figures, downing liquors, getting your smokes on, representing
[01:37.84]for the hood, putting your city on the map
[01:40.90]Young girls throw they kitty and they titties on your lap
[01:43.46]Catch you slipping while you tricking, stick the clip in
[01:45.96]They get paid and leave you sicker than that AIDS symptom
[01:48.65]They play a man like fools feel the heat from the tools
[01:51.34]Empty out your wallet, take off your jewels, you know the rules
[01:54.08]Represent, represent
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[02:01.15]No doubt, you see my stats is fat, this is what it's about
[02:04.15]before that Ice Cube conflict with MC Ren
[02:06.33]Around the time when 3rd Bass was dissed by X-Clan
[02:09.21]I used to wake up every morning with my ear in a box
[02:11.90]Bumping Rakim, Kane, Finesse, Freddie Foxxx
[02:14.55]Then I bought the Nas CD, Biggie's and Pac's
[02:17.11]Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, Gang Starr and The LOX
[02:19.73]Nowadays I need the green and the cash just like the next man
[02:22.48]Using my mind to make shit move just like an X-Man
[02:25.05]I'm talking checks, grands, commons and zeroes
[02:27.30]Growing up, my heroes bombed firearms at De Niros
[02:29.73]Some of 'em went to jail, got life in a cell
[02:32.55]Others got death, dwelling in hell, most of 'em fell
[02:35.21]When you laying low and the police is hot on your trail
[02:37.90]do you think of suicide or are you plotting for bail?
[02:40.21]This is words of wisdom from El', try to rise up above
[02:42.90]Keep an eye out for snakes, represent, one love
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[02:47.03]Yeah, yeah, this goes out to everybody around the world
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[02:52.84]All over, tryna get yours
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[02:56.66]Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, Chi-Town, New York
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[03:02.50]Toronto, Paris, London