[Intro:]
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yeah this next joint right here...
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is dedicated to all my niggas that I love
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all the niggas that held it down with me through the whole shit
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from the beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort
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from the beginning and the birth of this whole shit
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to the now success of this whole shit
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and all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples
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ridin with them through thick and thin, love y'all niggas
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peep it
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[CHORUS 2X:]
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1, 2
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Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas
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1, 2
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All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my niggas
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[verse 1]
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now, this how the shit all started
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was like doctors of ? I was being conceived kinda retarded
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like, and while my moms was conceiving this beautiful baby
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doctors was the this woman's stress out of this Jamaican lady
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Pops beef and straight carrying on
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nobody realizing how the god was now being born
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ayo, yo, 1, 2
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while they was wildin and shit
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they couldn't even find my pulse, sonogram on the frisk
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so, they tried a natural birth, but had to stop production
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baby stuck all up in the womb, another malfunction
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1, 2
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and now the doctors discover
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they had to cut this lady's gut, and c-section me out of my mother
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Pop duke could only sit and ask why
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looked up in the sky and begged for mercy from the most high
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c'mon, now, 1, 2
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see now the day would feel blessed
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watching the birth of a precious baby life manifest
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see how that bugged me out
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[CHORUS]
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[over chorus]
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that shit, that type shit be buggin me out cuz...
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y'know niggas, nigga look back
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to them days when you know shit is kinda ill like y'knawmean?
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nigga, niggas like fall out, y'knawmean?
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motherfuckers is, niggas live long enough to look back and shit and
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laugh and shit, y'knawmean?
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[verse 2]
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young and learnin shit that started is thick
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started inquiring alot, started using my dick
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like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin and shit
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buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and shit
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now hold up, a young nigga now a couple years pass
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searchin desperate to experience my first piece of ass
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now, gettin into mischief and caught my first arrest
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started smoking weed and started totin on them cigarettes
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eyes bloodshot like I was starin at a highbeam
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nigga only twelve so why he lookin like he nineteen?
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1, 2
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the fast life baby, young with an old soul
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from the past life baby
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a young nigga wanted things and wanted money quick
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ambitious on the Amtrak, wit a quarter brick
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my nigga, 1, 2
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it got hot in the streets
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my nigga campaign the cops who started walkin the beat, my nigga
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trouble causin too much problems just me and my brother
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made mommy a grandma and shacked up with my babymother
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now it a seed, I was always ready to clap shit
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strugglin, so then I start fuckin 'round with this rap shit
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moved to Long Island and got up with a few niggas
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believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New niggas
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a crew of niggas that was hot like an infirmary
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blazin til they started actin like bitches internally
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so now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho
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tried to fuck with niggas but I couldn't do it no more
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fo rilla, 1, 2
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and then I got with some niggas
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always wit it to multiply the gross and double the figgas
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and then I, hit with bombs and hold a stack in my palms
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whippin Bentleys, floss icy shit and take care of moms
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give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur
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hold it down for all my niggas til the movement is over
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it's kinda beautiful
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[CHORUS repeats to end]
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[over chorus]
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yeah, y'knawmean?
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how we have acquired so much
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where we can look back and, and actually laugh and lavish
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in the, in the, in the moment
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as we prime in life
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look at how we, we struggled all this way and went through the bullshit
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motherfuckin, little obstacles
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situations they try to set up for niggas to fuckin fall off
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and lose they hard earned shit, y'knowmean?
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I holds it down for my niggas though
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give my last to my niggas
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all the niggas that was wit me through the whole shit
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love y'all niggas, word
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my Flipmode niggas, man
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How Much We Grew
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| Busta Rhymes |
