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Crosstown traffic
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Black to black
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You should a seen 'er
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Long and winding road to the arena
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Crystal ball
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I prophesized
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What was on the horizon
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Forewarned yall
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Is it any wonder
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What kind of ground you goin under
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A September ender
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To march madness remember?
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You never heard a murder
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Take for example
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Unsolved mystery
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Life lost in a funk sample
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Enter the bandwagons
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Braggin hangin banners
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Clearin the way for younger MCs
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And new hammers
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What was criticized six years back
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Is now back
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With New York on the jersey front and back
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Feel like Tiger Woods
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Got madd goods
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Way up from the cheap seats
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Comin outta the hood
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Race to the black seats
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Amongst the wack seats
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Be the hardcore
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Alongside the deadbeats
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The world lookin on
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Like spectators
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At crucified gladiators
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Feels like a jungle inside
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Where fish swim birds fly
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Man got a tendency to die
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Man falls to the hands of man
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But damn if i'll ever try
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To survive at courtside
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Four tickets to fly
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Rap or play ball do the game
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Or duck the drive by
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Same league that defends
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Be the same ones that do us in
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Spys
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CIA - FBI
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And them suits in that
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Corporate sky
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Eye for an eye
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The target is the bad guy
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Heard the war is on
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From the announcer
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Bound to get the crowd
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Bouncin
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Yes and it counts and
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In this corner representin the
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Best in the west
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Died from four bullets
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Two in the chest
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Worshipped on the other side
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Of TV sets
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Had madd fans
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Comin outta both sex
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Sold, multi platinum
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Eight times gold
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But died of homicide
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Twenty five years old
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Heard he died in debt too
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I ain't seen a winner yet, you?
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The confused crowd boos
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The move__________
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In that corner
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Number one in the east
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The peace cursed for life
|
By the mark of the beast
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Raised by peeps rode jeeps
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Deep in Brooklyn beats
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Praised as a hero
|
Who came up off the streets
|
The crowd looks on
|
Claimin sides they don't own
|
A house built up on
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Their skulls and bones
|
Knew it be a matter of time
|
The play by play
|
Two rappers slain
|
Main
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So let us pray
|
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Wit all the gunnin
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Crowd goin crazy
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Gettin bigger
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Proud to be called a bunch
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Bitches and niggas
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The ghetto stage fulla
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Field nigga goals
|
Hip hop shoot outs vs those house negros
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Five bodies got on the shot clock
|
Runnin down in the count made
|
The scoreboard rock
|
The referees the LAPD
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The LVPD
|
Said they couldn't catch
|
What they couldn't see
|
Question
|
Was it bigger than the names
|
Not only in the game
|
But the game behind the game
|
Down to the remaining
|
Seconds of this record
|
Anatomy of a murder
|
Intensity of a mystery
|
Dead and gone
|
As the heads looked on
|
Helpless
|
As the atmosphere preyed on
|
Investigating
|
And the winner be
|
Interscope/UNI Arista/BMG
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Lost in overtime
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Da tombstone trophy for people that ______
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The rhymes that died
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Beats that deceased
|
_____best
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Rest in peace
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Chorus
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Rainy days from stormy nights
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Though the stars shined
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Days were bright
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That was then this is now
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That was them this is how
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Rainy days from stormy nights
|
Though the stars shined
|
Days were bright
|
Live and die by the sword
|
Come playoff time
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Is your lord a god
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Or is your god a dog?
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Is Your God A Dog
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| Public Enemy |
