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Macklemore
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(Speaking) Intro:
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Ladies and gentlemen
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Second Thoughts on the beat
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Big up to Lace Cadence
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Good lookin' out for this one, man
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Verse 1:
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I love hip hop music
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I just hate the ego
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The politics that follow it
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Getting caught in it can be lethal
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See I love the community
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'Cause a community will embrace you
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But you turn it back the community is the people that will hate you
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See everybody's striving for that same shit
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To get paid and make it
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And I'll be honest, I'm trying to become famous
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When someone makes a move
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Watch that person next to you
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Cause I'll warn ya
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I love Hova but jealousy's The Takeover
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Here come the mean mugs
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"I can't do what he does"
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And where does that lead us?
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To the ego that feeds us
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I wish that I could just do what I do
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But when a door opens for him I'm afraid there won't be enough room
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Comparison's a mother fucker
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Like MLK said,
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"We all want that band leader syndrome and it won't stop"
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This concept makes me wonder
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Is it the commodity of the music or the ego that is killing hip hop?
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Chorus:
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It's the ego
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That makes me not give respect in death
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It's the ego
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That makes me talk shit behind people's back
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You know that it's the ego
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That's constantly polluting my consciousness
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So ingrained in my brain that I can barely even acknowledge it
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It's the ego
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That makes the present moment jet lagged
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I said it's the ego
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That has me trippin about the next man
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You know that it's the ego
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That makes me not go to the front
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Of the show 'cause the performers have exactly what I want
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Verse 2:
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I'm so cool
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F'real?
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No dude, I'm serious spit it different and if you just flow too
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I'll listen lookin for glitches and rip 'em to shove improve
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That my rhythm's a little bit more intricate, just to boost
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My ego
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Is so evil
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Threatened by so many different kinds of people
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It seems that if you're goin' through somethin' and life is feelin' uncomfortable
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The immediate place you go is to your ego to comfort you
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When Boom Bap got signed
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I hated on him
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When Grayskul got signed
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I hated on him
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And that's hard to admit
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But since I'm really bein' honest
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I wanted to be one of the first to make it as a Northwest rap artist
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Instead of takin it as a plus for my region
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I took it as a cut to my dreams of makin' it out of this political scene of Northwest haters
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To be next I guess I'm just like them
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Jealous of who's taking that step
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(Chorus x1)
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Outro:
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Now everybody got one but people tryin' to front
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Claimin that they on the humble but cocky
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Now it comes up when we judge
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Or are threatened by someone
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But everyone still be like 'man that's not me'
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Now let me break it down son
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It's only a lack of love for ourselves
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Cause we're submerged in 'I gotta be'
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The best or number one
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But it's just that we don't trust
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In our heart and that's what stops me
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It's the ego
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - CAN'T HOLD US ...
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