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Rise And Fall
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..Uh, yeah. Turn it up. Check it out.
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Verse 1
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The transition from a young fool
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broke, still on his neck he hung jewells
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lived his life in the ghetto where guns rule
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it was cool, wasn't mad I had to take cabs
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made my first LP, affording H class, my face gassed
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'94, sold out in every record store
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local hoodrats who wouldn't speak...now I'm who they checkin' for
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showing crazy love, ran up on stage with eighty thugs
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after the shows, my niggaz robbed the bar and wrecked the clubs
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happy, no hatin'
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more henny, more blunts circulating
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my single in rotation on every radio station
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eyes popped when I drove my first ride on the block
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summer time block parties, cookouts, I spent my knot
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truely, niggaz was fighting over who was closest to me
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happy with the new representative of QB
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to hit the top- first you've gotta fall before you make it
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with four minutes of your time watch me demonstrate it
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Hook: Slick Rick sample- "This was the rise and fall of my fast life style" cuts to Nas samples- "From nasty to Nas to Nas to Escobar...Mega popular, center of attraction" cuts back to Slick Rick sample- "I was the main event on the tv for a while."
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Repeates once
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Verse 2:
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Cayman Islands in the winter
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summer bus rides to Great Adventure
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I brought New York back to real rap inventors
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new crib, diamond rings, killers on my team
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Infinites for my girl for giving birth to my queen
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three g's worth of chronic a week,
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promoters was mad, I stopped doing shows to spent my time on the street
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loot declined, eventually sold in my shine
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repo looking for my lex, back then I wasn't buying
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you can guess niggas started saying with all the success
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why your mom still in the projects? I answered them vexed
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'fuck out my face', pistol in my car, full clip
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I read about Pablo Escobar and got on some shit
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so called man supplied all my chips
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I was frontin'
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niggas thought I was rich and got mad cause they was pumpin'
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my assumption- niggas want me pumped in the casket
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kept a gun-the same three fifth a nigga got bagged with
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Hook (repeats once)
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Verse 3:
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Caught a case
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now I'm home staring off into space
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flashbacks of all the jewelries, cars crossin' my face
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rappers I met
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hoes on video cassette,
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no management, no more good life and no respect
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hearing crowds roar, cristal pourin, mixed drinks
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haunted by the thoughts of second album sophmore jinx
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where did I fail? death threats, woke up in cold sweats
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thinking about all these murderers that know where I rest
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from hanging with crazy clicks that's known to take shit, bracelets
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in all they beef now I'm involved, was paperless
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my cars were auctioned off, now I catch rides with kidnap niggas
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who snatch babies up to get back figures
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lessons from heaven,
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every night I slept with my weapon
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to guard my family, for a minute, I forgot my profession
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not from Columbia or Nicaragua
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don't distribute coke from Antigua that's shipped out to Panama
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Pablo Escobar's bloody reign came to an end
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far from my life-a kid who made his fame from a pen
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hit the studio and changed the game again
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wrote down all the pain within, top of the charts- triple platinum
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got the fake love back, money stacks, more plaques
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had to see who I was just to know where I was at
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saw both sides of the game-all the ups and downs
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this goes out to the future rap kings coming up now
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Hook (repeats once)
Nas - Nas Is Like (Official Video)
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