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Ooh, it's been a long time
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Since I been back around the way
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It's been a long time
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Let it spin, let spin, let it spin
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Since I been back around your way
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It's been a long time, long time, long time
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Black thought, struck by the luck of the draw
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Real life preservation what I'm hustling for
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My name black thought the definition of raw
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I was born in South Philly on a cement floor
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I had nothing at all, had to knuckle and brawl
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They swore I'd fall, be another brick in the wall
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Another life full of love that lost
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That's silly, this Philly, y'all really ain't stoppin'
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The boy with the pen like Willie on top of the hall
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Pure soul is what the city most popular for
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Hear the tones that will ease you
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Smooth as Bunny Sigler's soundtrack
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Keepin' your head boppin' and all
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It's something in the water
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Where I come from
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They used to sing it on the corner
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Where I come from
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Making somethin' outta nothing
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Because everybody fifty cents from a quarter
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Where I come from, yeah
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The streets ain't timid
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But I feel at home in it
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Gotta see a couple people
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I ain't got at in a minute, yeah
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You can take a brother outta South Philly
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Can't take it outta him really
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I forever represent it and it's
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Ooh, it's been a long time
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Since I been back around the way
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It's been a long time
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Let it spin, let spin, let it spin
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Since I been back around your way
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It's been a long time, long time, long time
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Live and direct, I don't need no mic check
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Remember mommy told me, you ain't write that
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It started in the bathroom taking a dump
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Listening to Ultra magnetic ego tripping you won't
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Pressure my word, I'm the urban vision of you chump
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Stomped on a different ground
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Sound second to none synthesizers tweet
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To improvise your feet
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I calculated every lyric to arrive on a beat
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It's free, come get high on me
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Before a nine millimeter shell
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Hit my pelle pelle, in the [unverified]
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Yeah, it's somethin' in the water
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Where I come from
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They used to sing it on the corner
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Where I come from
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Making somethin' outta nothing
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Because everybody
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Fifty cents from a quarter, yo
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Where I come from
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It's just a natural reaction
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For crack to make it happen
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Let the pen ink sink
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Into the paper of the pad, think back
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When I was younger
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Ghetto could have took me under
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Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly
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Never had, you don't know about me
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You ain't stroll my streets look familiar
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I feel ya longtime no see
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Ooh, it's been a long time
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Since I been back around the way
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It's been a long time
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Let it spin, let spin, let it spin
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Since I been back around your way
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It's been a long time, long time, long time
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Uhh, clap somethin' but whatever you clap
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Clap to the record spinnin'
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While I'm takin' you back to the top paper era
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Baby big on that picture the pool room
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Where the money getters was at
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And street people with feather in the cap
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Or their Bossolino Pullin' paper
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As if it's a small casino
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I was a young boy, sweepin' the floors
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And runnin' to stores but all those old heads
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Would talk to me about the way
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To clutch the eagle on a buck and truck
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And if I'm down, how to get back up
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Just survival kid and it's a struggle worldwide
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I'm positive, shit the ghetto might as well
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Be the Gaza Strip
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You know where all the monsters is street walkers
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You don't see no consciousness I'm coming back to where
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The core of the problem is we on the job again
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Y'all know what time it is
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Ooh, it's been a long time
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Since I been back around the way
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It's been a long time
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Let it spin, let spin, let it spin
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Since I been back around your way
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It's been a long time, long time, long time
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