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Kardinal Offishall
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(feat. Ro Dolla)
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[Intro]
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It's eight o'clock here in Kingston, Jamaica
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The Kingston police have issued an APB
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Out for wanted criminal Rostacious Johnson
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He has last been seen headed towards
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The United States of America or Canada
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If you have any info please call us right away
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[Hook: Ro Dolla]
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I was a gangsta,
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Livin' my life hustlin' on the block, with no food to eat
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Rollin' with them prankstas
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Settin' the streets on fire with the heat
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I had no choice as a gangsta,
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Livin' my life hustlin' on the block, with no food to eat
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Rollin' with them prankstas
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Settin' the streets on fire with the heat
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Aiyyo, stepped off the edge of 'maica at the age of ten
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Landed at the Dot airport, comin' out of May pen
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Raised by his grandmama, until his real mama
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Could send for the youth, and reunite, aiight
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So now he's growin' up exposed to the ghetto limelight
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No pops (nope) plus his moms got to work nights
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Moonlightin' as a janitor, to make bread for the two
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All the while he's growin' up, runnin' with a crew
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It started off tryin' to make a little extra creamer
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But then it turned to pushin' rocks, savin' for the Beamer
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Told his moms he got a job workin' in the trade
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At a local grease monkey, that's how he's gettin' paid
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And that's how he got the deal on the black man wagon
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Moms thought it was suspect, but she's still braggin'
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To her kin about "How he come home and grow right"
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All the while he's wildin' out, money starts pilin' now
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The next crew saw the flex and start red eye
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Jealous of the way them niggas hustle,
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Til he get a little muscle, uh huh, bust a bunch of shots
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There my nigga laid, really holdin' down the block
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That nigga gangsta
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[Hook: Ro Dolla]
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Aiyyo, six weeks in intensive, holdin' on to prayers
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On the seventh, he was back on his back in the west wing
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His man done came visiting, in his ear whispering
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How the block was hot, and there was 'nuff shots whistling
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Another week and he was back on his feet
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Discharged, ready to get back and hit the street
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Moms was still working overtime, clueless to the real
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About how his son was livin' in the hood packin' steel
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Pushin' coke - no joke - them cats wanted retaliation
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Word got back, about who led the slaughter
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One nigga named Blaka, real name Elroy
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Next day (Boom) +What Happened to That Boy?+
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For the next three months my man stayed on the low
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Told his moms he wasn't workin' cause the garage was slow
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But just as he tried to resurface on the strip
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Someone on the turf called 222-TIPS
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[Hook: Ro Dolla]
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Now my man locked up, and had to sweat inside a jail
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Cause his man done fled the scene, and moms couldn't afford bail
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The trial came and went, his mother cried "Discrimination!"
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Said the judge didn't know her son
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He said he knew him too well, he'd seen him there before
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Turned the cheek cryin', now he feels he's on fire
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Got burned by the same liquour, quit talkin' fresh
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He doesn't know how to act, so now he got to go back
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My man got dipped, sent right back to May pen
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Grandma didn't want him, now family wouldn't take him
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He thought about work, but he said "F that!"
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He got a fake passport and just came right back
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[Hook x2: Ro Dolla]
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[Outro]
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It is a sunny day here in Jamaica
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Unfortunately we have bad news to report
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Rostacious Johnson was apprehended in Canada
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And suffered fatal wounds to the back of the head
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Rest in peace my brother
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Anyways, in tomorrow's news...
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