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Busta Rhymes
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[Chorus: Stevie Wonder]
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Been through the storm, through the cold and rain
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Everything's still the same
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Can't control how I feel
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Sometimes it's hard to keep it real
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You see the luxuries in life, with the fortune and fame
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Like them Cadillacs with sunroofs mayne
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So many ways to make a dollar
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Huh, sometimes I think about my father
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You see my poppa was broke, and my momma was young
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Tryin to blend in with them city folk
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Every day landlord knockin down my do'
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Wonderin where my next blessing is comin from
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[Busta Rhymes]
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My momma and poppa, moved to the U.S. as Jamaicans
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Struggled to get visas and green cards through immigration
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Though my pop was po', stayed away from crime and malice
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Hard living gave him hard hands and callous
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As a young', peep how much they loved each other's space
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His hard hands rubbin against the pretty skin of my mother's face
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Dig for treasure 'til his hands looked like hands of a junkie
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So coarse, slap a mule and take the life from a donkey
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On the other hand, mommy was the type to work two jobs
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Never enough money, that's why I got your whole crew robbed
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Got older, developed ways of grippin the steel
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Barely home for me to see her, or get a good cooked meal
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Seek refuge in the alleged land of the free, lookin
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Blendin in with city folk, down in Flatbush Brooklyn
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Feel a little of my pain, follow and sing to it
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Homey I seen it all, if you ain't knowin I been through it
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In other words I
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[Chorus]
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[Busta Rhymes]
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Got a little older, late teens, me and my crew would huddle
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On the corner late nights, plottin to escape struggle
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Nights got cold and still would hustle in the same place
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In front of Pancho Delis, now the freeze up on a nigga face
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1987 Reaganomics ever curious
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to visit other cities, out of town kick was serious
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Guayanese jeans bounce, put whatever slinger on
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Whatever slinger came back, quickly brought me right along
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Nigga ran away from home
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Doin different wild shit, just to put a pair of Filas on, 'Didas on
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Wreck is all for the good, gettin into shit
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Like we innocent, actin older than should
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Walk around broke in the hood, watchin all the rich niggaz
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These younger thugs who try to choke and try to get niggaz
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Thinkin 'bout my mom and pop, while I'm monopolizin
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To hell with just gettin by and economizin
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It's kinda hard bein humble in the belly of struggle
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Doin things that probably get you in trouble
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That's why we stay up on the block, gettin money while we keepin it safe
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In front of churchgoers keepin the faith
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Mom and pop be worryin for they son
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Despite they struggle and their honest livin look and see just what I become
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A scavenger, in brute pursuit to be happy, another young' that's wildin
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Across the line until somebody tryin to cap me - ohhhh shit [gunfire]
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[Outro: Stevie Wonder]
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I been through the storm
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Through the cold and rain
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Everything's still the same
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Can't control how I feel
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Sometimes it's hard to keep it real
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Woooooooooooooo-whoahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Yeahhhhhhhhhhh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Been Through The Storm
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