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Kenny Starr
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[Hook: x 2]
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It wasn't for this, it wasn't for that
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Ohh, best believe a better world
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[Talib Kweli--talking over chorus]
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Yes, ladies and gentleman
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You do have Kenn Starr in the house, Asheru
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Talib Kweli...
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[Kenn Starr]
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If it wasn't for the way that we live
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Too many single mothers raisin' our kids
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Too many brothers caged in the Pen
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Engagin' a bid, enslaved by the pigs
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If it wasn't for crooked cops that pop shots grazin' our wig
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That sends slugs reckless, plus these thugs with a death wish
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That take your life for the ice that flood in your necklace
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The blood of the helpless and innocent (and innocent)
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If it wasn't for so-called friends that turned Benedict
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Snakes in the grass and crabs in the lake
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'Cause I'm black and its late, getting' harassed by the Jake
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Blasted with eight times five, plus one
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Lethal deposit, reach for your wallet, they bust guns
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That's why I trust none and I keep to myself
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I can't blame cats that pack heat in they belt
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And quick to clap, never givin' in
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If it wasn't for this and that
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It'd be a better world that we livin' in
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[Hook: x 2]
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[Asheru]
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If it wasn't for a mic check I wouldn't have a check at all
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Nowadays you can't live that way
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The markets way too unstable, there's too many pimp labels
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Playing rappers like a ho, manhandlin' the dough
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Demandin' them to go on a track to bring the loot back
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Now you playing for the team and the captain, that's cream
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You got the dream to push a mean two-seater
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With a diva riding shotgun, just to say you got one
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You make the songs, but labels only want the hot ones
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Send you back to the drawing board, until you got some
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Now I guess we got problems
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Even your all-creative mind ain't enough to try and solve 'em
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The doors revolvin', younger cats are starvin'
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They want it more than you, might go to war with you
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To reap the heap of dough that's at the end of the rainbow
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You can't be mad, man, that's how the game go
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[Hook: x 2]
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[Talib Kweli]
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(yeah, see'mon!)
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(yea, here we go, yeah!)
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I'm about to show you what this black power is
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Red, black, and green on the wrist how I live
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In the cold world where we bust off the black llamas
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Every winter where we lose more son to black mommas
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If hip-hop got seasons, right now its spring
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Like when everybody selling death, "kiss the ring" (yeah!)
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You know how it goes, people change color like autumn
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Kids learn through experience, fuck what a teacher taught 'em
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Puff a relief for boredom; rough will release a quarter
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And the parents who paid enough attention to at least ignore 'em
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Blowing up mics, throwin' up signs
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To help niggaz you confusin' it with cryin'
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The winners write the history books
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Mystery looks past prisoners of war, that's what my listeners are for
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Turn the tide on this fuckery, ride on this fuckery
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You should a never let me in the industry, you're stuck with me
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[Hook: x 3]
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