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The Roots
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South Philly, North Side, Oakland, Texas, Georgia
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Black people, uh
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Worldwide
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Na what I'm sayin'?
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This is for my nigga
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Dumb and blind
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They say a record aint nothin if it's not touchin', grippin'
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draw you in close and make you wanna listen to it
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and if you real ill at makin' music
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the listna gonna feel like he living through it
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that's how my nigga do it
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I met Slacks back in like ninety-one rappin'
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we went to Millersville to get away from gun clappin'
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it aint last, i be in class dreaming 'bout fifty-thousand fans up in the stands
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screaming out
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Encore, yo I'm heading back to philly, nigga you rollin with me?
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I'm tryna get busy
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We walked dogs that was off the chain, lotta times at the shows people hardly
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came
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I just, took it in stride as a part of the game but inside
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people down with me started to change
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It was a couple thangs, little syrup, little pills
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Instead of riding out on the road you'd rather chill
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I know the way the pleasure feels, I'm not judgin'
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but still I'm on a mission yo I'm not buggin
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I got fam that can't stop druggin', they can't sleep
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they can't stick to one subject and can't eat
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it's people steady comin at me out in the street
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like Riq yo what up with ya peeps, it gets deep nigga
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(Chorus)
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Yo, you need to walk straight masta ya high
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Son you missing out on what's passin' ya by
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I done see these streets suck a lotta cats dry,
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but not you and I my nigga,
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We got to get,
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c'mon over, over, the water (x2)
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yo, water (x2)
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We done been through many meals a couple of deals
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shared clothes and wheels, killed mics and reels
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we done rocked shows abroad and slept on floors
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trying to figure what the fuck we gettin' slept on for
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or what we walkin with the weapon for
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weighted by the gravity law, you know it if you came up poor my nigga
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picture the bus up north
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you know we made of errething outlaws are made of
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I'm far from a hata, and I don't say I love you 'cause the way I feel is
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greater,
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M-illa you a poet son, you a born creator
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and this'll probably dawn on you later
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it's in your nature, lyrics all up on you walls like they made of paper
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you gotta follow where the talent take ya
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ya might fuck around and finally make it, and that's real but yo
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(Chorus)
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I want ya all to understand I come from South Philly,
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and when I walk the streets it's like a pharmacy
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They got all type-a shit anybody can get
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It go from H to X to loosie cigarettes
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for my ghetto legend, known for little shiest runnin'
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cop codine by the quarts and keep comin' and dumbin'
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just embracing the dope like it's a woman
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ya burning both sides of the rope and just pullin' and tuggin'
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in between islam and straight thuggin'
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layin everyday around the way and doin nothin'
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see em all shakin' their heads and start shruggin'
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if they don't got a man like mine they gotta cousin
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an yo, you better be a true friend to him, before the shit put an end to him
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or give a pen to him
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and lock him in the studio with a mic
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'cause on the real it might save his life
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and keep tellin' him
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