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Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son |
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Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin? |
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Yea yea |
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Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin? |
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Yea yea |
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Cause we spendin these Jackson's |
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The Washington's go to wifey, you know how that go |
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I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right? |
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Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin?Yo then what man, what?? |
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Visualizin the realism of life and actuality |
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Fuck who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary |
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And my mentality is, money orientated |
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I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it |
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But somethin must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners |
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Now some, restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin |
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Others such as myself are tryin to carry on tradition |
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Keepin the schwepervesence street ghetto essence inside us |
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Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us |
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Even though, we know somehow we all gotta go |
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but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin with some kind of dough |
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so, and to that day we expire and turn to vapors |
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me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty papers |
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Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high |
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Cause life's a bitch and then you die |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye |
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I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years of blessing |
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The essence of adolescent leaves my body now I'm fresh in |
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My physical frame is celebrated cause I made it |
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One quarter through life some God-ly like thing created |
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Got rhymes 365 days annual plus some |
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Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs from |
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my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money maintain |
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Don't go against the grain simple and plain |
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When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard |
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Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip they green cards |
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Dipped to the projects flashin my quick cash |
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and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with hash |
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Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I used to run with |
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is rich or doin years in the hundreds |
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I switched my motto -- instead of sayin fuck tomorrow |
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That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto |
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Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce stacks |
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I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back |
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Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric |
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Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go |
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Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high |
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Cause you never know when you're gonna go |
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Life's a bitch and then you die |