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Uh, uh, uh
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I say we all got children, products of the ghetto
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Momma cooked us soup, daddy did the yelling
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Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon
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When he got pinched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
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Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook
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Cause every job he had they be payin' him off the books
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Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took
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In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook
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Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook
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When the feds comin', everybody get shook
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Now we doin' life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
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On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin
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The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
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Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
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Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
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Everybody got a past but you can never go back
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Tellin' you like it is, how we ever gon' live?
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If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
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It's a revolving door, where brothers be doin' bids
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I know it sound wrong but the dope will be what it is
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Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest
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Broke parents and black cats give me heebie-geebies
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Life seems hard but nothin' ever comes easy
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Whatever's in the dark, can always become the light
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If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
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Gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth
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The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
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Poverty is a pain like you pullin' a tooth
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Told the streets don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice
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The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
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Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
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Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
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Everybody got a past but you can never go back
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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(You gotta sing!)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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(She's a king)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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