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Verse 1:(Common)
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Memories on corners with the fo's and the mo's
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Walk to the store for the rose, talking straightforward to hoes
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Got uncles that smoke, and some put blow up they nose
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To cope with the lows, the wind is cold and it blows
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In they socks and they soles, niggaz holdin' they rolls
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Corners leave souls opened and closed, hopin' for mo'
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With nowhere to go, niggaz rollin' in droves
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They shoot the wrong way, 'cause they ain't know and they goes
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The streets ain't safe 'cause they ain't knowing the code
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By the foes I was told, either focus or fold
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Got cousins with flows, hope they open some doors
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So we can cop clothes and roll in a Rolls
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Now I roll in a Olds, with windows that don't roll
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Down the roads where cars get broken and stole
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These are the stories told by Stony and Cottage Grove
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The world is cold, the block is hot as a stove
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On the corners
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Hook:
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(Kanye West)
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I wish I could key this feelin'
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I wish I could key this feelin'
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On the corners niggaz rob or kill
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And dyin' just to make a livin', huh?
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(Spoken: Lost Prophets)
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We overstated, we underrated, we educated
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The corner was our time when time stood still and
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Gators and snakeskins and
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Yellow and pink and
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? profiles ??
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Verse 2: (Common)
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Street lights and deep nights, cats tryin' to eat right
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Ridin' no-seat-bikes, with work to feed hypes
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So they can get sweet Nike's, they head and they feet right
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Desires of street life, cars and weed types
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Its hard to breathe nights, days are thief-like
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The beasts roam the streets, the police is Greek-like
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Game that is deep, we speak and believe hype
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Banged in the streets has cop left for deep life (?)
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Its steep life, coming up where niggaz is sheep-like
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Rappers and hoopers, we strive to be like
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G's with three strikes, seeds that need light
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Cheese and recite, needs and BE strife
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The corner, where struggle and greed fight
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We write songs about wrong 'cause it's hard to see right
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Look to the sky, hoping it will bleed light
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Reality's a bitch, and I heard that she bites
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The corner
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Hook
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(Spoken: Lost Prophets)
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The corner was our magic, our music, our politics
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Fires raised as tribal dances and war cries
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Broke out on different corners
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Power to the people
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Black power
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Black is beautiful
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Verse 3: (Common)
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Black church services, murderers, Arabs serving burgers
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As cats with gold permanents, move they bags as herbalists
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The dirt isn't just fertile, it's people workin' and earnin' this
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The curb getters go where the cats flow and the current is
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Its so hot that niggaz burn to live
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The furnace is, whether money movin', the determined live
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We talk shit, play lotto, and buy German beers
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Its so black packed with action that's affirmative
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The corners
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Hook
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(Spoken: Lost Prophets)
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The corner was our Rock of Gibraltar, our Stonehenge
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Our Taj Mahal, our monument
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Our testimonial to freedom, to peace, and to love
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