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The Artist Pays the Price
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8Ball & MJG
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(How do you think it would feel to go around the world in a day?)
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[Chorus]
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The artist pays the price so you won't have to pay
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(Around the world in a day)
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If only we would listen to what they have to say
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We all go through changes to get to where we're going
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We have to learn a life of sacrifice (yeah, yeah, yeah) To keep on growin'
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Yeah,
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Life is for learnin
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Remember this
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And learn from life
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Think about the players in the past who died in sacrifice
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Some died in wars for a country that oppressed them
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Some died preachin' prayin' for God to bless them
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I am one of the blessed, born to bring the world poetry
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Hip-hop, musically' expressing what's inside of me
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Some find me entertaining. Some find me marketable.
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A potential Black millionaire so that makes me target-able.
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Low-life's and fork-tongued devils get easy access.
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Flashin' me faces, making empty promises.
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Soggy niggas sign contracts and make deals,
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Rappin' bout who they killed,
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Talking bout they keeping it real.
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Hardcore homicidal, kingpins of the century
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Need to quit rappin' and leave this shit to the real M-C's.
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But ain't no chance
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Opposing forces got the upper hand.
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Do as they command to keep them from suffering.
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[Chorus]
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See, I don't know everything
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But my opinion I will voice
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As long as I can choose
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I'll choose the right or the wrong choice.
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Addicted to Hip-hop beats
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And hoes that can't stay out the streets.
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Tryin' to make a dollar
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Without a nigga havin' to rob and cheat.
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Got me hustling
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twenty-four-seven,
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Three-sixty-five
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Coast to coast
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Mic-checkin'
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Keeping the party alive
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Engrave my name in the minds of those
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Who bob to this
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Slang and rob to this
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Jack and rob to this
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Herbs and meditation made a pill when I put it down
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But individual perception will change each phrase around
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Different towns
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Ain't none of this shit like Orange Mound
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Players unified, digging on my mellow sound
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Exec's
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Get big ole fat checks
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For makin' deals
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While soldiers like me in the fields
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Down there getting killed
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When this is all over
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If I could do it again, I do it twice
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Before and after me, the artist will always pay the price
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[Chorus]
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The industry
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Full of broke niggas tryin' to make a comeback
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Rappin' bout that bullshit
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Over them weak-ass tracks
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Judging me
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When around the globe, ain't nothing the same
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Think how the world would be if none of this hit had ever changed
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Ain't like it used to be when hip-hop belonged to you and me
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Shit got sugar coated' modified for tv
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Niggas like me, don't give a fuck about commercial air time
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Forced underground, ain't nothing commercial bout my rhymes
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Rather be broke or slinging dope than hold my tongue back
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Niggas who put on acts get they ass beat up and jacked
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I'm not a killer' just a poet tryin to survive, nigga
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Given the choice to ride or die, I chose to ride, nigga
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I'm paying the price for all the real M-C's after me
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Be a artist, not a slave for the industry
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I'm paying the price for all the real M-C's after me
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Be a artist, not a slave for the industry
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[Chorus]
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Full of them trees
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On them Hennesy's
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Fuckin' with them G's
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