(featuring Sadat X & Talib Kweli)
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"Still gettin mine, in the" "ONE" "NINE" "NINE" "NINE"
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*sample cut and played in background*
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[Talib Kweli]
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Yo, just relax, take it easy slow down
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I had this, I had this friend of mine
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Who just, you know, he was movin too fast, yaknawimsayin?
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I told him to slow down, he said the sun don't chill
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I said, I said still, I said still, you gotta
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Just appreciate life, sit back, don't let it fly right past you
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No matter what go on I'm still gettin mine
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No matter the year, no matter the place, no matter the time
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[Common]
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Check it, it's like I'm fightin for freedom, writin for freedom
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These record company niggas I don't like when I see em
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My ancestors, when I'm writin I see em, and talk wit em
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Hopin in the promise land I can walk wit em
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Shitted on, so many rappers it's like I'm in the stall wit em
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Molest concepts, start rhythm, paid dues, bought wisdom
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As legends fall my godmother answer heaven's call
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Preachers' daughters get fucked in the reverand's hall
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MC's reckless ?I ball? why y'all wanna go and do that?
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Must've thought I was solo, the name just ain't the U-Ac
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No mo', still together
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Like in the ghetto photo wit one nigga in the chair
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Holdin liquor in despair, gang signs in the air
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I shine in spaces where time is just a glare
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Hold the mic like a memory
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Niggas say I'm nice wit metaphors but these are similes
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Street ministry, my poetry's a penitentiary, track is visitation
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Sentences is life, I'm like chief up in this demonstration
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Still...
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"Still gettin mine, in the" "ONE" "NINE" "NINE" "NINE"
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*sample cut and played in background 4X*
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[Sadat X]*in background during sample*
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Check it out, everyday ha yeah
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This how we gon' do it for y'all
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Common Sense, Sadat X puttin something in your ear
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Something for you to grab
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For the whole world, yaknowimsayin, but it ain't free
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It's a fee, check it out
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You squirm wit this coughin, whippin cough
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Six days of madness and you might throw me off
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On this great ball of stress that they call the earth
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I'ma show y'all in rhyme just how much shit I been through
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And all the place I went to, always played the low
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It's like a competition, this mission here I'm tellin you
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Slip up and rhyme-ass niggas here is fellin you
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Crash courses, slow down you can't learn that quick
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Cuz I'm the dead eye, wit the red eye, from Chi to L-I
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I thought y'all knew, every year I grew, I'm still growin
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And in a year or two I hope my girl'll be showin
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A male seed, praise God I name him Moses
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I lead people I want him to, that's why I chose this
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Now is the glass half-full or half-empty
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Common, why they tempt me?
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The king of the simply, bore in mic
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I always stay on top cuz I give niggas what they like
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I know y'all hate that why I feel I owe y'all everyday
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If y'all hear it a thousand times, it's gon' be the same way
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The 'Dat-Father, go farther, why bother
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Now I'm a peaceful man, I don't want no stress
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You know I'm still...
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"Still gettin mine, in the" "ONE" "NINE" "NINE" "NINE"
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*sample cut and played in background 3X*
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[Common]
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Yo yo, some get Range Rovers, some religion change-over
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Angel on my main shoulder tellin me remain sober
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Token nigga, game's over ain't no payola in freestyle
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In battles, I'm warring/Warren like a G-Child
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Searchin for the child in me, this style in me
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This release is like the piece that's now in me
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They tried to 'sassinate me god, like Martin on the bal-cony
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Lyrically I put a hit on em, cuz I'm the style-Nitty
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Catch a flick at the Liquid Kitty
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Tryin to get a chick to kick it wit me till the tilt
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Told her my Chamber's like Wilt
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Built wit her for a sec, let her know I had respect
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Less than a hour she was givin me neck, yo I'm still gettin mine...
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"Still gettin mine, in the" "ONE" "NINE" "NINE" "NINE"
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*sample cut and played in background 4X*
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