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Stand tall, live your life to the limit |
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Cause haterism seem like a ******g epidemic |
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And look at Ice Cube, I ain't no gimmick |
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I'm straight from the hood, I got to represent it |
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Now - every day I think about my color |
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And all the crazy *************t we do to one another |
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I ain't your blood brother, but I'm your cuz brother |
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Let's take it back to the love and how it was brother |
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If not, we gon' pull these triggers |
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Show the world we deserve to be called *************z |
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I make a *************-up, like Don Imus |
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bow on his knees, and call me yo' highness |
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You can too, you got the power to |
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Don't let this mother****** system devour you |
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I won't pretend, or act like I'm knowin you |
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But check it out I understand what you goin through |
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But remember, brothers and sisters |
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You can still, stand, tall |
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Just be thankful... |
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For what you got |
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I know what y'all mother******s thinking, heh heh |
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Here comes another rapper with a song about hope |
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All you wanna hear is a song about **** |
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And how a ************* got mo' money than the Pope |
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But he'll never tell you when he drop the soap |
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No~! Ice Cube is here to drop you a note |
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Cause some of our folk used to hang from ropes |
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And some of our people used to hang from trees |
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Now the only thing hangin muh'****** is DEEZ |
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So, get your mind right, and I'ma rhyme right |
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************* the limelight, and a blind dyke |
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I'm the sunlight, too bright to look |
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When it's all said and done I should write the book |
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You too cool for school, too old to know? |
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Get your ass off the grassroots and let 'em grow |
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I understand, it ain't no love lost |
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But little kids, it ain't no Santa Claus |
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But remember, brothers and sisters |
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You can still, stand, tall |
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Just be thankful... |
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For what you got |
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I was born in the mud but I came out clean |
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That's 'til the government tried to intervene |
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Tried to lock me up when I was only 19 |
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Don't never ever ever let 'em kill your dream |
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I make *************t raw that piss off the law |
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If you want some fake *************t turn this off |
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If you want some realness I know you can feel this |
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Maybe we can heal this just like an illness |
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Black on black, I got'cho back |
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People don't think that we know how to act |
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Just because our neighborhood is filled with crack |
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And the CIA, won't take it back |
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Never on top, always on the bottom |
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Never put your trust in Hillary Rodham |
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Cause I can tell you now it's gon' turn out rotten |
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Keep on pu*************n, get 'em 'til we got 'em |
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But remember, brothers and sisters |
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You can still, stand, tall |
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Just be thankful... |
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For what you got |
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Raise your hand if you sick of this bull*************t |
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Heh, in the belly of the evil empire fades |
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