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I wrote my way out
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When the world turned its back on me
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I was up against the wall
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I had no foundation
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No friends and no family to catch my fall
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Running on empty, with nothing left in me but doubt
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I picked up a pen
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And wrote my way out (I wrote my way out)
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I picked up the pen like Hamilton
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Street analyst, now I write words that try to channel 'em
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No political power, just lyrical power
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Sittin' on a crate on a corner, sippin' for hours
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Schemin' on a come up, from evening'to sun up
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My man awaitin' trial, misdemeanors we younger
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Courtroom prejudice, insufficient evidence
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Jailhouse lawyers, these images still relevant
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Flickerin' lights inside my project hall
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Sickenin', the mice crawl all night long
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And '87 Reaganism, many pages I've written on
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Writin' songs about rights and wrongs and bails bonds
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Master bedroom, bigger than the crib that I was raised at
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I'm the architect like I wrote the code to Waze app
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I'm driven, black Elohim from the streets of Queens
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The definition of what It Was Written means
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Know what I mean?
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I wrote my way out
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When the world turned its back on me
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I was up against the wall
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I had no foundation
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No friends and no family to catch my fall
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Running on empty, there was nothing left in me but doubt
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I picked up a pen
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And I wrote my way out (I wrote my way out)
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I really wrote my way up out of 6E
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Develop relationships with fiends, I know they miss me
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Before the metrocards, it was tokens, I did the ten speed
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Never had wrote a rhyme in my life, what was I sixteen?
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At sixteen, arrested in housin', trips to the mountains
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Came right back, trappin' off couches, watchin' for mouses
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Only tools we was posed with, had a spot, smoke lit
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The hate is just confusion, pay attention how them jokes switch
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Diadora was my favorite, the Mark Buchanans
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Mama couldn't afford them, I learned everythin' on the border
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That's a big 8, Clicquot parties with private dancers with no mixtape
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Bumble Bee Tuna, now we could get steak
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I persevered, composition, I kept it close
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Competition near, I'm a Spartan without the spear
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Three hundred rhymes, it was written before I wrote it
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Opportunity knockin', might miss it, that window closin'
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This poetry in motion, I'm a poet
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I wrote my way out
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When the world turned its back on me
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I was up against the wall
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I had no foundation
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No friends and no family to catch my fall
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Running on empty, there was nothing left in me but doubt
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I picked up a pen
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And wrote my way out (I wrote my way out)
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High speed, dubbin' these rhymes in my dual cassette deck
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Runnin' out of time like I'm Jonathan Larson's rent check
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My mind is where the wild things are, Maurice Sendak
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In withdrawal, I want it all, please give me that pen back
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Y'all, I caught my first beatin' from the other kids when I was caught readin'
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"Oh, you think you smart? Blah! Start bleedin'"
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My pops tried in vain to get me to fight back
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Sister tapped my brains, said, pssh, you'll get 'em right back
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Oversensitive, defenseless, I made sense of it, I pencil in
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The lengths to which I'd go to learn my strengths and knock 'em senseless
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These sentences are endless, so what if they leave me friendless?
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Damn, you got no chill, fuckin' right I'm relentless
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I know Abuela's never really gonna win the lottery
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So it's up to me to draw blood with this pen, hit an artery
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This Puerto Rican's brains are leakin' through the speakers
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And if he can be the shinin' beacon this side of the G.W.B and
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Shine a light when it's gray out
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I wrote my way out
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Oh, I was born in the eye of a storm
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No lovin' arms to keep me warm
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This hurricane in my brain is the burden I bear
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I can do without, I'm here (I'm here)
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Cause I wrote my way out
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I picked up the pen like Hamilton
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I wrote my way out of the projects
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Wrote-wrote my way out of the projects
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Picked up the pen like Hamilton
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I wrote my way out of the
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Wrote-wrote my way out of the projects
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I wrote my way out
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Picked up the pen like Hamilton
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I wrote my way out of the
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(I wrote my way out)
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Really, I saw like a hole in the rap game
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So if I wanted to put my little two cents in the game, then it would be from a different perspective
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(I wrote my way out)
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I thought that I would represent for my neighborhood and tell their story, be their voice
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In a way that nobody has done it
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Tell the real story
Hamilton – “Wrote My Way Out” (Nas, Dave...
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