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Dice Raw
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Yo, they got us locked down, in a cell under the ground
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Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
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Yo, they got us locked down, in a cell under the ground
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Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
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Every artist locked down, in a cell under the ground
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Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
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Every rapper locked down, in a cell under the ground
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Tryin' to push for a mainstream sound
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Man, it used to feel like hip-hop had a lock on my soul
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And a deal was the only way I'd get parole
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I got knocked years ago when I wrote my first rhyme
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Ever since then, I been locked down doin' time
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Payin' dues with a lot to gain, but more to lose
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I play the game, but they keep changin' the rules
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The studio's a holding cell for lyrical criminals
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Doing demo tapes, hold mics like shanks
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Battlin', that's like a fight in the yard
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Lines chase niggas down like Lieutenant Gerard
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But I love it there, and some say that I'm institutionalized
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Freestyling's our only form of exercise
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I don't lift weights, lift my mind to a higher state
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If your shit's wack, you just can't relate
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I have nightmares of bein' back on the streets
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But when I wake up in my cell, I feel relief
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Bein' on tour is like bein' transferred to jail
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And the companies reattempt to boost your sales
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In my last case, they came at me with a deal
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The D.A., I mean A&R, said "You can still keep shit real
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But instead of Raw, be Dice Chill
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Give us some hits with some commercial appeal"
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I refused, then sent back to my cell
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And from next time, a poet's memoirs from jail
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[Chorus:]
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The prisoner, verbal incision
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They strangle me with barbed wires of fire, fuck a mainstream vision
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The label is the feds, they want to find me and sign me
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With a market and promotion behind me, but they slimy
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My cellmate Dice Raw is nice, why'all
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I assassinate rehearsal, if I go commercial I'll slice why'all
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Studio's solitary, so I'm soliterrorizin' MCs
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Steve G's, freeze, melt, refreeze
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Mics get raped on my cell block, we battle for commissary
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Parole boards for adversary
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I lost the trial, I lost the case
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What a waste, judge threw the rhyme book in my face
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But my brain left and right is like the unstoppable engine
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Locked down, pushin' for mainstream like syringes
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Fuck a C.O., my shit's gone gold like C3PO
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Ask Kelo, he know we go T-O
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The top, this is cell block hip-hop
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Yo, the underground keep the shank hot
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Locked down with MCs doin' life bids
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Beware when the pen zags and zigs
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[Chorus:]
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Aiyyo, it was far from warm, the middle of a storm
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And fifth Dynasty was on our way to perform
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It was me, Steve G's, Dice and the Quick Drawn
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And we got pulled over, we knew something was wrong
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The law wasn't concerned with license and registration
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Insurance information, or our point of destination
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But peep, they got us up out the Jeep five deep
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And took a look and saw the mics up under the seat
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And start'd snappin', flippin' and shit like "Who's rappin'?"
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Got on the radio and signaled back to the captain
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Who warned them we was known for action
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"Use caution, and get them contracts from when they brought us back" and
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The fingerprints matched and linked identities
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D.T.s was like "Shit, it's the fifth MCs"
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Ain't no escapin', locked us in a lab and started tapin'
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Mandatory, the judge said "Fuck jury deliberation"
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Maximum incarceration
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In these camps for concentration we call radio stations
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A place where hip-hoppin' is against the law
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Forever locked down within a lower corridor
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Of sound, where they sniff out cells with bloodhounds
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Pure MCs, MCs' remains is found
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Pick the park when a record executive's around
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Yo, we bubble to the top notch round
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[Chorus:]
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