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"Get-get.. get down!" - [James Brown]
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[Nas]
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Uh.. Uh.. Uh..
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New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete
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And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys admiration
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Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem
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Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from starvin
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Pushin cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's
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But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities
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Worldwide on the thorough side of things
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Livest kings, some died, one guy, one time
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One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast heat
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40-side of Vernon, I turned well he asked me
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"Whatchu up to, the cops gon' bust you"
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I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered
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If God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the block
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And looked at us, I ain't flinch when they watched
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I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair
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Starin at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do
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Yeah man, throwin them bones
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Hopin my ace get his case thrown
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His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoein
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While he lookin at centerfolds of pretty girls
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Showin they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's livin proof
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The D. A. Who tried him was lyin
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A white dude, killed his mother durin the case
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Hung jury, now the D. A. Is bein replaced
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Pre-trial hearin is over, it's real for the soldier
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Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild
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Triple-homicide, I sit in the back aisle
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I wanna crack a smile when I see him
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Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom
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He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin
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Then he grabbed the judge, screams out -- nobody leavin everybody
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"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown]
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[sample cut and repeated]
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[Nas] Everybody
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"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown]
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[sample cut and repeated]
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[Nas]
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Some niggaz fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em
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Weird-ass niggaz are dangerous, so don't test 'em
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They make you, dissapear, this a year that I won't forget
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Sold cd's double platinum, met mo' execs
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Southern niggaz, independent label, real killers
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Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chillin
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They had the coke game somethin crazy
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Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me
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Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or somethin
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Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them
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Southern niggaz ain't slow, nigga tried to play me
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I left from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy
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Now I'm back around the old school that raised me
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New York gangstas, we loungin, out in L. A. See
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A dude wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay
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The letter say, "Nas I got your back - the fools don't play"
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I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral
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Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible
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The nigga still alive in a hospital
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Midnight they crept in his room and shot the doctor too
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See my cousin's in the game, thuggin and things
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He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano
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Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano
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She passed me the indigo, but the imbecile
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Shoulda never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed
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Openin the hotel room do', to let her goons in
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But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li shit
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I let the hammers blow, wet three kids
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See honey thought I had somethin to do, with all the drama
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Cause I was with a crew, that had her people killed
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Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fuckin witchu
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He responded cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
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"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown]
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[sample cut and repeated]
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[Nas] Everybody
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"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown]
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[sample cut and repeated]
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[unknown speaker]
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All I really gotta say is that
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If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up?
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How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down?
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A shame when you ain't look at it
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My folk is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk
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Somebody gotta make a change
Nas - Get Down [ God's Son ]
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