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August Alsina
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Started off in the streets
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We would take collection from the fiends
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People dyin' all around me
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So I gave you my testimony
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We were down from the beginnin'
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When the world wasn't listenin'
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Now that I got your attention
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Let us in with the benediction
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We are gathered here today
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Paying our respects to bein' broke, hope he's in a better place
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'Cause life out here ain't sweet, oh no
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I would close my eyes to sleep but didn't dream no more
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So I had to make a way for my home, you know
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Now I'm in a place where I ain't gotta scheme no more
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The good life, I'm done with the hood life
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I did what I could but didn't always do what I should and I was misunderstood
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So many nights I tried
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To hide how I felt, I would cry inside
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And I ran through the streets till my feet got tired
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'Cause I ain't wanna have my shoes on them power lines
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But I made it, and it made me
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I know I did wrong, I prayed to God he forgave me
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'Cause I made it, and it didn't kill me
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So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me
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Started off in the streets
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We would take collection from the fiends
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People dyin' all around me
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So I gave you my testimony
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We were down from the beginnin'
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When the world wasn't listenin'
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Now that I got your attention
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Let us in with the benediction
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Our father who art in heaven
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I pray you free me from my demons and keep me level
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I know you kept my out of prison where I was headin'
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When I heard someone killed my brother, one-eighty-seven
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I hope he made it to your presence, for me he was a blessin'
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At least I know he's restin' and he ain't out here stressin'
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Tryna get to the good life, and out of this hood life
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I pray that my step-pops stay off that crack pipe
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So mama could sleep at night, I know it's been hard on her
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I was ripping through the streets, it was hard for her
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Now I'm up in hotels on the ocean shore
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When I was sleepin' on the floor at the corner store
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But I made it, and it made me
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I know I did wrong, I prayed to God he would save me
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'Cause I made it, it didn't kill me
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So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me
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Started off in the streets
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We would take collection from the fiends
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People dyin' all around me
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So I gave you my testimony
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We were down from the beginnin'
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When the world wasn't listenin'
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Now that I got your attention
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Let us in with the benediction
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Bottle after bottle, snatching Belaire out the bucket
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Rightin' all my wrongs for these homies out here thuggin'
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Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise
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Condo out in Cabo, screaming "GABOS" to my nemesis
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Gold around my neck I'm ballin' for these final minutes
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Nothing lasts forever, for these sins I seek repentance
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Shots fired, another gone, I feel that man's pain
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Daddy sat me down and said: "that came with the game"
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Shake my head, roll up the window, turnin' up the music
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So much anger in these songs for these soldiers that we losin'
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A mastermind is one who's feedin' others off his talent
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I owe it to my city but it's time I pay my balance
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I'm in Holyfield's estate, I started with a pallet
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I made my first tape, I gave that shit to Khaled
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Thankful for my supporters, everyone that ever bought us
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Grateful for every lesson these by any streets taught us
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Started off in the streets
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We would take collection from the fiends
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People dyin' all around me
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So I gave you my testimony
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We were down from the beginnin'
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When the world wasn't listenin'
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Now that I got your attention
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Let us in with the benediction
August Alsina - Benediction ft. Rick Ros...
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