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I tell it like it is, then how it could be |
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Heaven or hell boy, freedom or jail boy |
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A Jansport bag full of *******t I could sell for |
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The high or, the low boy, just me and my homeboys |
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The police kill us so we made up our own laws |
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Been fighting this long war, there's shells in this shores sand |
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Still young but a grown man, could tell by my stature |
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Been stackin' money and problems as I wait for the rapture |
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Death never been no threat, I be chillin', relaxin' |
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Everybody bleed |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To make it up to heaven, despite the things I've done |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To make my momma proud, feel like her only son |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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With everything I need, with everything I want |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To do it like nobody has ever done |
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| [01:49.940][Interlude 1] |
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When I was in seventh grade my grandfather told me don't get caught lovin' the streets cause they never gonna love you back. |
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But I feel like it's all we got so it's all we really do love. |
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At the end of the day I feel like the problem is the people that control it don't really come from here, |
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so they can't do nothing but look down on us. We look at them, |
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we see somebody that could help but they look at us and all they see is a *****. |
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It don't really matter anyway, we all gon' die one day man. One day |
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| [02:16.710][Verse 2] |
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Do doves cry when the black man dies, or do we croak with crows |
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The young catch gun shots, the old catch the holy ghost |
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Ho I love not, I never seen no pot of gold |
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Just bar windows and six fours with no switches |
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Was broke with no *******, she love me though |
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You'll kill me if it make you richer, what you screaming, you my brother for |
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Heart is where the hatred is, the brain that stained the love below |
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And life is what you make it so I'm makin' money for my folks |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To make it up to heaven, despite the things I've done |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To make my momma proud, feel like her only son |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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With everything I need, with everything I want |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To do it like nobody has ever done |
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| [03:12.290][Interlude 2] |
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When most people look at a person who does what I do they look at us with these preconceived notions as if, |
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it's a set way for us all to be. But we all people at the end of the day so I wonder why we don't treat each other like it. |
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You're looking at a person telling them that they story don't matter is really no better than me, walkin' down the streets tryna shoot at somebody. |
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Cause all we got is these dreams man and y'all ain't never had to not have nothing, |
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and that's the last thing you want for anybody. Is to not really have nothing. At all |
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| [03:39.920][Verse 3] |
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I been through hell and back, I seen my momma cry |
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Seen my father hit the crack then hit the set to flip a sack |
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I done seen my homies die then went on rides to kill 'em back |
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So how you say you feel me when you never had to get through that? |
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We live for they amu*****t like they view us from behind the glass |
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No matter what we grow into, we never gonna escape our past |
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So in this cage they made for me, exactly where you find me at |
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Whether it's my time to leave or not, I never turn my back |
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| [04:07.380][Hook] |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To make it up to heaven, despite the things I've done |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To make my momma proud, feel like her only son |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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With everything I need, with everything I want |
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I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be the one |
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To do it like nobody has ever done |
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