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8Ball & MJG
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[ VERSE 1: 8Ball ]
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Tell me what's goin on, damn, I need help to see
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I have chains on my brain from the strain of the
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Mental corruption eruptin through this industry
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All I see is New York rappers back and forth on BET
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See, I'm the first true southern funkadelic preacher
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Drink a 'yac and smoke a blunt and watch it get deeper
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But not so deep I have to perpetrate to gain respect
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Instead of judgin me you need to get yourself in check
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And I'm not gonna be the want to-be you want to see
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Oh no, I cannot sell my soul
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[ VERSE 2: MJG ]
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MJG for the Nine-Fo, what's it gonna be?
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Another year for the p-i-m-p in the street
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Yes, it's me, the one who clocks when it's time to get explicit
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It's comin from the truth when I kick it
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So dear critic, you thinkin on terms of how it needs to be
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I'm tellin you how it is and what I has to live and what I got to give
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To the ears of the ones who want to listen
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Some don't understand,, so they really don't know what they're missin
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Hard times made hard heads in the South
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You get respect bein real, no sell-out
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[ VERSE 3: 8Ball ]
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In '93 I was rappin about my curls and my Cadillac
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The pimp blast, takin you fast, smokin grass and all that
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Players got the message, busters didn't attempt to listen
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Thinkin that we was talkin about that on-the-corner fake pimpin
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Hell yeah, I'm that player from the underground
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All-black assassin from the neighborhood of Orange Mound
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They don't understand, why, they being society
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The white people who run this nation got somethin against me
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Me bein a young black male with an education
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Teachin this pimpin, so the blacks will one day rule this nation
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But every day another brother tries to kill me
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Jack me because of the poverty in communities
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Where you either have to sell crack or jack, man
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What I'm tryin to stress to you is, don't step to the fat man
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Because today I'm rappin, rockin shows and pullin hoes
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But tomorrow I might be on the cut slingin dope
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See, in the studio I'm killin fools vocally
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But if it came down to it, I could do it silently
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Fuck the President, the media can quote me
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Listen to them lyrics, fool, I ain't sellin out, gee
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[ VERSE 4: MJG ]
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You gotta be hard in this business, ain't no suckers, ain't no sell-outs
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It's the way that you go in it, that's the way you gonna go out
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First of all: never break up with them hustlers that you started with
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Long as this happens you and your click won't accomplish sh...
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Should've thought about it real hard
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Now how could any group that's meant to be together be apart?
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And if you start with a strong mind, think with a strong mind
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be -you-s-i--e-ss time
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I'm in the lab, chiefin hay, comin up with gold
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Pimp mobile, hit the reel, let the platinum roll
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See, I was taught, not the easy, but the hard way
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Hustle after hustle after hustle each and every day
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I gotta stay down to earth, cause I'm from Orange Mound
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See, that's my hood, understood in the M-Town
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Memphis-bound players, pimp type, black, strong, young
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Level-headed Tennesseee, hustlers got it goin on
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Bad to the bone when I roam through the area
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Carry a, automatic weapon for my burial
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When it's all over what it is and what it's all about?
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Stay true to your homies and your music, no sell-out
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