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I Can't Win
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whoever said the grass is greener on the other side
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never tried to lift a piece of their lawn
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the pressures of the world won't let up
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I'm so hungry and I'm fed up, I spent half my life tryna get on
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I never knew the day would come, when I had about
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5 records out, still work a day job, livin' at my moms house
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still hoppin' turnstyles, can't catch a taxi
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trying to sell records every week infront of fatbeats
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this can't be the way it is for cats I've seen on TV
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if I said I was a rapper I don't think you would believe me
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it's easy to make it, seem easy to make it
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but it's much harder than the eye can see when it's naked
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you think you can take it, then you need to think again
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cause you about to play a hand in a game you can't win
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I can't get a job if I wear my hip hop clothes
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can't get a deal if I use my hip hop flows
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nobody wants to pay me to do all these hip hop shows
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bout time my album dropped, shit it's five years old
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and I've been told, paitence, this year you gonna make it
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then december 31st comes, I hear the same shit
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but I'm so close I can taste it
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I'm so next that, me and success is adjacent
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but time is wasting, I ain't been, gettin' any younger
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can't wait to gain weight, my life is driven by this hunger
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shit I hardly ever sleep, yet I'm a slept on emcee
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you don't mention 9/11 than you ain't considered deep
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but I am the epitome of what a real emcee should be
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no matter how loud you critics be, you won't get rid of me
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it shouldn't be this much of a struggle, a hustle, but it is
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shouldn't be so much trouble just to get a couple spins
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records should be reaching millions, not just a couple friends
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but the dollar signs and numbers win, welcome to the biz
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I get mad frustrated when I rhyme
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so I sit and write more rhymes and take out my frustrations
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a infinite loop, and this shit isn't cute
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my lifes foul, on the line, less than a minute to shoot
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I try kickin' the truth to these inquisitive youth
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but they won't listen to you unless you fit in their group
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so when I get in the booth, it's like I'm tryna feed my fam
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and someone comes along and just spits in the soup
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on top of that, I got these wanna be's
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eating right infront of me, I look 'em in the eye like that wasn't for you
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now I do what I love, and I love what I do
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it ain't my hobby, it's my passion and by now it should be obvious
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I'm sorry kid, I just hate dealing with these politics
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got less in common with rappers than senators and lobbiests
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and 99.9 percent of it is who you know
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the other .01 percent is how you flow
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even if your love for this is infinite with room to grow
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a demo and a dream ain't really gonna get you through the do'
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so by the hairs of my chin and every inch of my skin
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I play again and again until the day that I win
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