[00:-3:00]College Dropout
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[00:00.75]I've lived
[00:02.35]Yes I've lived a life that's full
[00:05.74]I've traveled each, and every highway
[00:10.86]What more, and what's more than this -
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[00:15.71]It go my way, Chi-Way
[00:17.65]This way or the highway
[00:18.92]Shots'll lay you off on your day off, like Friday
[00:21.71]The ROC got Ye; but they ain't snortin' it
[00:23.87]They just got him up the base line recordin' shit
[00:27.30]Yeah I've been broke
[00:28.89]Now I'm good bitch
[00:30.03]I ain't no Kennedy
[00:31.57]But I'm hood rich
[00:32.77]So I say my way to thank you to the ghetto
[00:35.36]And everybody else, thank you very little
[00:38.69]I took the road less traveled, the unbeaten path
[00:40.76]I've been beatin', but never brokin' through the darkest past
[00:43.82]It's sort of like when King spoke and said we free at last
[00:46.54]Ain't nothin' free from that point, though
[00:48.53]We needed cash
[00:49.55]And we need it fast
[00:50.59]We broker than Ethiopians just tryin' to eat at last
[00:53.91]Now all the blacks cookin' up, they're almost white
[00:56.76]'Cause gettin' green makes 'em treat us treat us like we almost white
[00:59.49]Almost
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[01:00.47]I've lived
[01:02.69]Yes I've lived a life that's full
[01:05.69]I've traveled each, and every highway
[01:11.32]What more, and what's more than this -
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[01:15.75]It go my way, Chi-Way
[01:16.87]This way or the highway
[01:18.72]Niggaz wanna diss K
[01:20.45]On they're local mix-tapes
[01:21.82]There they go again, lyin' to consumers
[01:24.39]Get their hair cut in the little shop of rumors
[01:27.17]Your lil' sloppy with your cockyness ain't ya
[01:29.89]A little arrogant with all your compares
[01:32.43]'Cause as far as the Chi
[01:33.49]I got the most plaques since the beginnin' of rap
[01:35.94]And nah, I ain't mentionin' that
[01:37.61]Y'all just talk about my dough
[01:39.42]How I left Chicago
[01:40.74]How I'm the only one eatin'
[01:42.59]Shut your pie hole
[01:43.79]And wanna figure out why I'm gettin' it high though
[01:46.07]Why? 'Cause you need fire, and I'm a pyro
[01:48.90]And you a parrot, you copy what I do and say?
[01:51.90]Only difference between you and me, you were gay
[01:54.47]Ahhhhh, did he get his feelin's hurt?
[01:57.20]Nahhhh, he's got titties under his shirt
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[01:59.90]I've lived
[02:02.57]Yes I've lived a life that's full
[02:05.51]I've traveled each, and every highway
[02:10.87]What more, and what's more than this -
[02:15.41]
[02:15.76]It go my way, Chi-Way
[02:17.26]This way or the highway
[02:18.63]When you walk straight, niggaz tend to look at you sideways
[02:21.57]I say, Fuck that dog, I get my own way
[02:24.34]Niggaz ain't believe me 'till they see me on t.v
[02:26.97]And seen K freely, gettin' head on the freeway
[02:29.58]Then passin' up Freeway, just like it's a relay
[02:32.40]We stay 4 stars, all better
[02:34.76]'Cause the couches in the rooms got, more leather
[02:37.57]And we gon' flip Carter, when we could afford better
[02:40.13]And back, before Benzes, when we could afford Jettas
[02:43.11]You still dress (Ardjo), but only pay partial
[02:45.87]Stay gettin' somethin' off lay-a-way at Marshall's
[02:48.67]Polo and (Carbesher's), we into them things dogg
[02:51.42]Back in '96 we was livin' like kings dogg
[02:54.38]40 cals or better, tottin' them things dogg
[02:57.07]So up the turkish snake, and take them rings off
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[02:59.88]I've lived
[03:02.30]Yes I've lived a life that's full
[03:05.43]I've traveled each, and every highway
[03:10.96]What more, and what's more than this -
[03:16.40]I did it my way