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Hey, hey, hey man
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I strike the empire back
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I strike the empire back
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Fuck the empire
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High flyin' like the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo
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I never roll for dolo, frontin' on me's a no-no
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Understand? Doin' this for my family
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Ha ha, check it out y'all
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Yo, I'm tryin' to make a dollar out of what makes sense
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Add it up, told my daddy I'd be a rich man
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You never know when your fate gon' switch hand
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Get today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand
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I was a young boy, who dreamt about being a big man
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On small looseleaf sheets I sketched a big plan
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Gotta handle business properly, boost up my economy
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Store it up and get my mom some waterfront property
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Yesterday was not for me but nowadays it's time for me
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The streets is watchin' me, I watch back, that's the policy
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Movin' along my oddesey like blood through the artery
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Navigate the treacherous and make it seem effortless
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Let those who make the exodus seekin' the North beacon
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From beatin' and hog-eatin', from punishment all season
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From hands cracked and bleedin' cotton thorns in your palms
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It's for y'all that I sketch these songs, and it goes
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Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
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I fear no man, because faith is the arrow
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My vocal chord travel worldwide to block narrow
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We can blow with the ammo or go mano-a-mano
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Kweli is you wit me? Let's make it happen
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(Whattup whattup?)
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I burn through your argument with action
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My eyes stay fastened to tomorrow lookin' for a brighter day
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When y'all wanna leave y'all? Right away
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Shout it out from East-West, from South to Northern
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From Cakalak' to California
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From the coldest to the warmest
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To the borders 'cross the waters, understand
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And know that I love you
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We got love in the place
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Shout out to all the Queens all the seeds
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To all the teams that's gettin' cream
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From outlaw to emcee's
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Make it happen do your thing, understand
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And know that I love you
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Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen
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Guess who? The illest MC in the atmosphere, yeah the Soul Controller
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who roam the frontier like a Buffalo Soldier
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I follow the code of honor like a real man gonna
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Never disrespect no women 'cause I love my momma
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These cats be givin' us praise but it ain't that accurate
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I give it up to God, all that, love and attachment, get
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Scary well-prepared with the shears when it get hairy
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Like how these niggaz is lookin' like some fairies
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And singin' like canaries to the beast
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And anybody who will listen to 'em clearly
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Y'all don't hear me though, even when I'm comin' through in stereo
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You make a mockery of what I represent properly
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Yo, why you startin' me? I take that shit straight to the artery
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Intellectual property I got the title and the deed
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I pay for rent, with the tears and sweat, and what I bleed
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MC's imitate the way we walk, the way we talk
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You cats spit lyrical pork with no spiritual thought
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Plus your flow a little bit off, you come across soft
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Back in the days, niggaz like that on stage got tossed off
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Need to get crossed off the guest list
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It's like you gotta be disrespected
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And thrown out the exit to get the message
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Sometimes your sunshine get snatched like a necklace
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when you get too drunk on power and your drive get reckless
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Check it, MC's in my face after I slug you then I hug you
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If I gotta dead you know it's only 'cause I love you
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Shout it out from East-West from South to Northern
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From the richest to the poorest
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To the elders in the coffins
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Livin' native dyin' for it, understand
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And know that I love you
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Yeah, yeah, we got love in the place
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Shout out from up top to the middle
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To black bottom, sky high
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Whether you colder than December or hotter, than July
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It don't stop 'til we complete this
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And know that I love you keep this fly
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It's so much to life when you just
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Stay black, stay black
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Stay black, stay black
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Stay black, stay black
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Stay black, stay black
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Stay black, stay black
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, my people, my people people p-people
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My people, oh oh oh oh ohh, oh ohh
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