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The Night Before
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[Verse 1]
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Now some claim gangsta rap's the CNN of the streets
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But it's used as an excuse to pretend over beats
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So I'ma lend my speech to all within my reach
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To tell what really goes on from cells to the streets
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Now in LA as you know there's a war going on
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And it's been going on since before I was born
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Though the undisputed origin has yet to be formed
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It all used to boil down to the red and the blue
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But that got fucked up as the many led the few
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Now there's bloods killin' bloods and crips killin' crips
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That's niggas killin' niggas they play kickball with
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It ain't as simple as it was way back in '86
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Let me give an example of some ol' MURS shit
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My sect of mid-city is livin' on the edge
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'cause there's four gangs at war and none of them wear red
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Any new car or face could mean bloodshed
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Which led to the other night, I'm in my girl's Bug, right
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I'm bout to hit the block to see who's chillin' on the spot outside
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When I put it in park, the homey got a SK aimed at my ride
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So I step out slowly, 'body no one fear
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He yells, that's Murs I see his beard from here
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But I told this whole story just to make things clear
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So it don't seem weird when I tell ya this here
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[Chorus ? 2x]
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Last night I almost got shot on my block
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Not the block where I live at, the block where I chill at
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Where I keep it real at, and used to pack steel
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At times I feel it's the spot I'll get killed at
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[Verse 2]
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Now in the entertainment industry they have sweeps weeks
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But it's Thursday in my hood when they sweep them streets
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A whole fleet of the task that they simply call CRASH
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That's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums
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If anyone should ask what the acronym reflects
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Put into effect to try to keep the gangs in check
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Now they're just another gang out bangin' they set
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Known for stirring up some shit when your hood is at peace
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The only pig I know dying to create beef
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But let me get on with my story so that all of y'all can peep
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Once again I'm on my block right, known as Cloverdale
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Playin' 2K2 while I'm talkin' on my cell well
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While I'm inside eyes glued to the screen
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CRASH rolls on my homies with the Thursday routine
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What's your name, where you goin', where you been, where you from
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We say the same thing while they just play dumb
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We don't gang-bang we got J-O-be's
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Still they make 'em turn around and get down on they knees
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Me, I'm screamin' in the house I just won by three
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So when I run out on the porch to tell the homies come and see
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I see 'em on the ground and I'm like, god damn
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Plus I got this black Nextel phone in my hand
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They both yell freeze, guns aimed at me
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And even though I drop my phone it's plain to see
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[Chorus]
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[Verse 3]
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It was a 2 month tour that ended in Japan
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So the first day back I had to spend it with my fam
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That night I was goin' down to holler at my folks
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Have a few beers, smoke, and share a few jokes so
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To the block I bail but when I got to the dale
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Everybody's on the porch lookin' distraught as hell
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They start to tell me on how some fools from the other side
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Just tried to kill T, he don't fuck with nobody
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Just be mindin' his biz
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So you have to understand what an explosive situation this Terry thing is
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My nigga never gang-banged a day in his life so
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Fuckin' with him is not a way to earn stripes
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But a way to get wiped off the motherfuckin' planet
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I don't claim to be a killer with a heart made of granite
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But try to kill my best friend and it's on goddammit
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I had the big homey roll me over to my place
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So I could pick up this nine I kept just in case
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Of some shit like this, a box of hollow-tips
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I slipped back to the block with the heat in my hand
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We sat up in the house loadin' guns, makin' plans
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They asked me was it stolen, and why I never told 'em
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Nobody in the hood ever knew that I was holdin'
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I told 'em I forgot but I did it on purpose
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So they wouldn't ask to borrow it to go and do dirt with
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Now we locked and loaded and about to hit the streets
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When we look to the corner there's a Jeep tryin' to creep
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With its headlights off, we all leap for cover
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They start to let off ? now how does this sound?
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When I hit the deck, my pistol hits the ground
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So the homey picked it up and let off a couple rounds
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After that went down I knew I might get clowned
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So I shook to the crib to take a shower and lay down
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The next morning woke up, rolled out of bed
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I called my girl up and this is what I said
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[Chorus]
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