[00:00.00] 作曲 : Blagmon, Chapman, McKay
[00:01.98]Yo' son it's real' you know what I'm saying?
[00:06.59]A man is often condemned or exalted by his words' you know?
[00:10.35]That's why we feelin' my niggas going through the struggle
[00:13.87]QB-Brooklawn
[00:15.20]Y'all niggas hold on... if you can't hold on' hang on' you know?
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[00:21.35]Yo' I seen it all' coke rise and kingdoms fall
[00:24.12]Profits in sneaker boxes' riches hidden between the walls
[00:27.62]The hood agony
[00:29.23]I'm one of the few who ever understood Tragedy
[00:31.98]Batteries not included in my music
[00:34.04]Or holding up my spinal cord
[00:35.63]Niggas be lyin' on wax
[00:37.49]Committing vinyl fraud
[00:38.49]Denyin' the fact
[00:39.44]They never slung or fired a gat
[00:41.07]Mega's tongue is ghetto' dun
[00:43.15]Hello
[00:43.73]Where I'm from is the crime and graffiti
[00:45.90]And NYPD
[00:46.79]Broken glass' .44's' open caskets
[00:49.15]Shorty ballers pop shit when they' rock hits the basket
[00:52.27]The only life we know
[00:53.83]I flow so precisely' though
[00:55.79]My chain got the icy glow
[00:57.13]B-Mer Jeep shine with Lorenzos shine brightly' yo
[01:00.16]Laugh now' cry later' one day I might be broke
[01:03.27]And tellin' niggas I need coke
[01:04.95]Shit is real
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[01:16.67][01:05.88]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away
[01:19.08][01:08.30]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay
[01:22.20][01:10.95]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land
[01:24.75][01:13.81]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand
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[01:27.38]Yo' visualize Mahdi as a shorty Fidel Castro
[01:30.72]Snotty nose' nappy afro
[01:32.44]Never realized in due time what I would have' though' yo
[01:35.84]Before I spit at a ho I used to bag up blow
[01:38.55]Little bastard - rockin' Pumas under two-tones
[01:41.51]As we roam from the streets to the group home' yo
[01:44.28]Watchin' mob flicks' clappin' at imaginary targets
[01:46.92]Adolescents up in Spofford' facing hardship
[01:50.03]Newborns grew up on Anita Baker songs
[01:52.61]In the 'hood' wonderin' why the police hate us all
[01:55.42]Up late nights waiting for the next day to fall
[01:58.13]We're up late nights waiting for the next day to fall
[02:00.94]My stomach hurtin'' still searchin' for a way out
[02:03.58]On an Island where P.C. was a gay house
[02:06.32]Made my first board' stabbin' niggas on the way out
[02:09.11]I knew cats who got bagged they' first day out
[02:11.62]Yo
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[02:22.63][02:12.53]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away
[02:25.34][02:14.52]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay
[02:28.15][02:17.39]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land
[02:30.88][02:19.95]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand
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[02:34.13]Yo' Trag' we been down for years（word）
[02:36.34]From rappin' in the 'hood
[02:37.94]To promising careers
[02:38.70]It's all good
[02:39.73]The rap game is new to me
[02:41.45]The crack game - true to me（my life）
[02:42.52]Accept the consequences
[02:43.63]And the blood money cruelty
[02:45.25]Yo' remember you and me? Back in the days
[02:47.57]You had a sheepskin' I had a goose and Pumas in gray
[02:50.13]（You remember that shit!）
[02:50.97]We even did the same dorm in C-74
[02:52.96]More than boys we were fuckin' outlaws
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[02:55.90]If I could break you out the courtroom' and clap through reporters
[02:58.94]Kidnap the jurors - and whack all their daughters
[03:01.47]The Montanas' Al Po's and Rich Porters
[03:04.15]Mandela time - get smacked with two quarters
[03:07.01]A life speed - fuckin' with cracks and weed
[03:09.44]Yo' I sniffed so much coke' I froze with nosebleeds
[03:12.69]Jumpin' over snow cliffs without the skis（shit is crazy' yo）
[03:16.17]Then I saw shit was real' and I switched my steez
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[03:39.73][03:28.73][03:18.11]See the good Lord giveth and he taketh away
[03:42.52][03:31.46][03:20.54]But niggas talk it and don't live it' then they forced to pay
[03:45.25][03:34.14][03:23.17]I'm just trying to be a man in this poison land
[03:48.13][03:36.93][03:25.73]Forgive me' Father - they forced my hand
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[03:51.69]Trials and tribulations... you gotta shine...
[03:54.25]regardless to what... nah'mean?
[03:57.17]All of my niggas growin' up strugglin' - word
[04:05.71]I see y'all out there - live ya life' man'
[04:09.25]stick your chest out' against all odds'
[04:10.58]you can handle that shit.
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