Lend me your ear (listen)
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Won't you listen?
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Listen (listen)
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Listen
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Listen
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Granddaddy was a hustla
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On the dirt road
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Him and his brother
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Stayed sharper than a motherfucker
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That nigga stayed on the corner
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Stacy Adams never scuffed up (listen)
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So that explains bout my daddy and me
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I mean the apple don't fall too far from the tree
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I was thirteen, mad as hell
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Thinking why can't we live up in Beverly Hills (listen)
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Wondered why all my homies in my hood were killed
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Thinking why I got a 9 in my pocket for real? (listen)
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It's gotta be a better life than this
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I mean kids shouldn't have to go through this shit
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I mean this is California, Land of the Free
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But every city in America it's plain to see (listen)
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Dawg, my people ain't getting they due
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That's the reason why we do what we gotta do
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Listen
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This is for the homies in my hood
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All the single mamas it's all good (listen)
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All y'all soldiers on the front line
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Doing what you got to do to get by (listen)
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This is for the struggle it don't stop
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This one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)
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No matter how hard they try can't stop us
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We still gon get by mother fucker
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Listen
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I ain't in love with the situation
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But I'ma get by and I'ma get mine
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And my mamas and my daddies and my whole line
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Until ShaunShaun sitting on a gold mine (listen)
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I'ma play my position get up in the middle
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Sneak and attack this dog eat dog shit here
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A whole lot of folks got to eat here
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Grandmamma had 24 kids and that's real (listen)
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Cause I plan to build a boys club or something
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Where fathers can take their sons on weekends
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Cause that's what they need
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I don't wanna see them in these streets
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These sharks out here and they eating (listen)
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I know I been gone for a minute but I'm back
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Just to put the West Coast back on track
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I gangsta represent it till the day that I die
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And I didn't tell a lie
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Still gon get by
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Listen
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This is for the homies in my hood
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All the single mamas it's all good (listen)
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All y'all soldiers on the front line
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Doing what you got to do to get by (listen)
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This is for the struggle it don't stop
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This one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)
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No matter how hard they try can't stop us
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We still gon get by mother fucker
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Listen
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Baby girl I know you trying to do it by yourself
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And ain't nobody there to help you
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Seem like nobody cares
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For beautiful you (listen)
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For beautiful you
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Baby boy trying to get up out the game now (so much pressure)
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But damn it's so much pressure (so much pressure)
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It ain't a penthouse in the sky
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It's keeping on the lights
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We just trying to get by
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Listen
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This is for the homies in my hood
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All the single mamas it's all good (listen)
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All y'all soldiers on the front line
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Doing what you got to do to get by (listen)
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This is for the struggle it don't stop
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This one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)
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No matter how hard they try can't stop us
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We still gon get by mother fucker
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Listen
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Listen
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This is for the homies in my hood
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All the single mamas it's all good (listen)
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All y'all soldiers on the front line
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Doing what you got to do to get by (listen)
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This is for the struggle it don't stop
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This one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)
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No matter how hard they try can't stop us
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We still gon get by mother fucker
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Listen
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Listen
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This is for the homies in my hood
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All the single mamas it's all good (listen)
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All y'all soldiers on the front line
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Doing what you got to do to get by (listen)
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This is for the struggle it don't stop
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This one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)
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No matter how hard they try can't stop us
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We still gon get by mother fucker
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Listen
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Listen
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TQ |