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[Verse 1]
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Night Blows, Stoves don't work, Hoes at work
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A warrior, so I wear 'em on my shirt
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Wish I was free as Che was,I spend a day buzzed
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Trippin on heights, wishin for nights in different flavors
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The age of Kane and Big Daddy,shown by the caddies
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Uncles named Larry, that never really grabbed me
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My mother gave birth but she really never had me
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Left to the hood to play daddy
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Raised by niggaz named Butch through the bay bay
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With waists so they weigh they status on the streets
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License plates that say they,
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motto This is Chicago in the hay day
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Similiar to Good Times, I guess that I was Jay Jay
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A skinny nigga, young girls with penny figures
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So many niggaz, stacked upon each other
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It's the black upon each other that we love so much
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Wonder how many of us, these drugs gonna touch
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Used to gangbang, ain't really thug that much
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Rather have some thick broads then the dutch to clutch
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Went to school in Baton Rouge for a couple of years
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My college career got downed with a couple of beers
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Came back home, now I gotta pay back loans
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Same nigga, same block, same shit they own
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Only thing different, quicker, they click that chrome
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In my defense, yo I had to hit that zone
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Man to man, I'm good workin with my hands
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My generation never understood workin for the man
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And, of bein broke I ain't a fan
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Now I stand in the same spot, as my old man
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My life I planned not to be on this corner
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I still wanna see California
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But this is my world
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[Chorus Repeated Overlapping:]
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"It's your world"
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[Common] Yeah
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[Verse 2]
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Life and death law around us
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Four pounds and pounds a verb from out of towners
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It's hard to stay grounded
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We stay high, thats why old folks down us
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Lost, nobody found us, the force that sorrounds us
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Ain't with us, they get us on the ground and hit us
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We paint pictures of the chains
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under their names and scriptures
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Removed from earth, only to return through birth
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Knew this girl sellin her body,
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wish she knew what it was worth.
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Between God and trash, lookin in every car that pass
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With a walk that suggests head,
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to milk niggaz she was breastfed
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She know dairy so she say cheese to get bread
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In the area where it's more weaves and less dreads
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Kinda scary, amongst theives and base-heads
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Said it was her toes, but I could tell her soul hurt
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She was colder (?), growin up she got to know hurt
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very well in a world where self hate is overt
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Her step-father that he was Ike, so her mother he striked
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she got to like like minded niggaz,
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who liked crimes and figures
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Doin white lines and liquor, see hard times had kicked her
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In the ass, it used to be thicker
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Life is fast, some choose to be quicker
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I remember in high school she had a passion to sing
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Now she see herself in a casket in dreams
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These are the children of crack and rap, blacks done lack
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Self-esteem, yo we forgot the dream
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On our jeffersons y'all but we forgot the theme
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In the Chi, we even rootin for a garbage team
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This queen never seen herself on this Corner
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She still wanna see California
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But this is her world
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[Chorus repeated several times]
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[Kids stating their dreams]
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['POPS']
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Be, be here, be there, be that, be this
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Be greatful for life, be greatful to life
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Be gleeful everyday,
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for bein the best swimmer among 500,000
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Be-nign, be you, be mom's mean pie,
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be little black sambo With bad hair
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Be aware of what a lynch is, Be, be boundless energy
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Be a four star ghetto general, be no one except I
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Be a strong academic student, be an A student in sociology
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Be food for thought to the growin mind,
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be the author of your own horoscope
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Be invited, be long-living, be forgiving, be not forgetful
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Be a proud run, only to return to fight another day
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Be peaceful if possible, but justice in ways (?)
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Be high when you low, be on time but know when to go
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Be cautious of the road to college,
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takin a detour through vietnam or the middle east
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Be absent of wars at any past or
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present fought amongst themselves
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Be visual of foreclosure over your shoulder while beggin
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A nation built on free labor for reperation,
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Be a cartopogropher
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Be a map maker, be able to find afro-american man
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search thoroughly it may be close to black man
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Be ammended 5/5ths, be ammended 5/5ths human
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Be the owner of more land than is set aside for wild life
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Be cupid, to world government
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Be found among the truth, lost tribe
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Be at full strength when walking through the valley
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Be not foolish as tender 18 of the mountain tops
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Be a brilliant soul,
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sparklin in the galaxy while walkin on earth
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Be loved by God as much as
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God loved Ghandi and Martin Luther King
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Be that last one of 144,000,
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be the resident of that twelfth house
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Be....eternal!
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