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Meet The Parents
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Woo! Uhh, uhh
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It's "The Gift & the Curse"
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Uhh, uhh yea
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First they love me then they hate me then they love me again
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.. They love me again
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Let's take a trip down.. I gotcha
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Let's take a trip down memory, lane at the cemetary
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Rain grey skies, seems at the end of every
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Young black life is this line, "Damn - him already?
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Such a good kid, " got us pourin Henn' already
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Liquor to the curb for my, niggaz up above
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When it, cracks through the pavement that's my way of sendin love
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So, give Big a hug, tell Aa-liyah I said hi
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'Til the next time I see her, on the other side
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He was just some thug that, caught some slugs
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And we loved him cause, in him we, saw some of us
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He walked like ussss, talked like ussss
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His back against the wall, nigga fought like us - damn
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Poor Isis, that's his momma name
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Momma ain't strong enough to raise no boy, what's his father name?
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Shorty never knew him, though he had his blood in him
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Hot temper, momma said he act just like her husband
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Daddy never fucked with him, so the streets raised him
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Isis blamin herself, she wish she coulda saved him
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Damn near impossible, only men can raise men
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He was his own man, not even him can save him
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He put his faith in her, thirty-eight in his waist
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But when you live by the gun you die by the same fate
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End up, dead before thirty-eight and umm
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That's the life of us raised by winter, it's a cold world
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Old girl turned to coke, tried to smoke her pain away
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Isis, life just, ended on that rainy day
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When she got the news her boy body could be viewed
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Down at the City Morgue, opened the drawer, saw him nude
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Her addiction grew, prescription drugs, shift and brew
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Angel dust, dipped in woo!
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She slipped into, her own fantasy world
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Had herself pregnant by a different dude
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But reality bites and, this is her life
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He wasn't really her husband, though he called her wife
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It was just this night when, moon was full
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And the stars were just right, and the dress was real tight
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Had her soundin like Lisa Lisa - I wonder if I take you home
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Will you still love me after this night?
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Mike was the hardhead from the around the way
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That she wanted all her life, shit she wanted all the hype
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Used to hold on tight when he wheelied on the bike
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He was a Willie all her life he wasn't really the one to like
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It was a, dude named Shy who would really treat her right
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He wanted to run to the country to escape the city life
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But I-sis, like this, Broadway life
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She loved the Gucci sneakers, the red green and whites
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Hangin out the window when she first seen him fight
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She was so turned on that she had to shower twice
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How ironic it would, be some fight that
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Turned into a homicide that'll alter their life
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See Mike at thirty-two was still on the scene
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Had a son fifteen that he never saw twice
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Sure he saw him as an infant, but he dissed on him like
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"If that was my son, he would look much different.
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See I'm light-skinnded and that baby there's dark
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So it's, momma's baby; poppa's maybe. "
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Mike was still crazy out there runnin the streets (fuck niggaz want?)
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Had an older but light with thirty-eight gun in his reach
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It's been fourteen years, him and Isis ain't speak
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He runnin around like life's a peach, 'til one day
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He approached this thug that, had a mean mug
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And it looked so familiar that he called him "Young Cuz"
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Told him, get off the strip but the boy ain't budge (fuck you)
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Instead he pulled out a newer thirty-eight snub
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He clearly had the drop but the boy just paused (hold up)
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There was somethin in this man's face he knew he seen before
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It's like, lookin in the mirror seein hisself more mature
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And he took it as a sign from the almighty Lord
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You know what they say about he who hesitates in war
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(What's that?) He who hesitates is lost
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He can't explain what he saw before his picture went blank
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The old man didn't think he just followed his instinct
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Six shots into his kid, out of the gun
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Niggaz be a father, you're killin your son
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Six shots into his kid, out of the gun
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Niggaz be a father, you killin your sons
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Meet the parents.. [echoes and slows down as it fades]
Public Service Announcement (Interlude)
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