[Intro: from the movie Attack the Block]
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You know what that is? I told you what that is, that's that alien, bruv, believe it!
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Musta come from outer space trying to take over the earth, innit?
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Well it landed in the wrong place, though, you get me? The wrong place!
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This is the block, fam! Nobody fucks with the block, do you get me?
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The B-L-O-C-K!
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Block! Block! Block! Block!
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[Sample from Dead Prez - "Hip Hop":]
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It's bigger than hip hop
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[Verse 1:]
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I ride for my niggas though
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And we gotta stay alive just to get it, ya'll
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The hood look like one big prison yard
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And death is the only visitor
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They don't want you at your best
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That means they're at their worst
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They wanna hear struggle bars
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You wanna kick a classic verse
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Niggas sleep with the fish like a pelican
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Get that snitch 'fore he tell again
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They killed Pac, he was too Machiavellian
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Stood out in the middle of a room like an elephant
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Because what he said was way too relevant
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Never ignorant, way too intelligent
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Now we got them running scared of the melanin
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Used to kick dust in the air, now we're settling
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Don't want you to vote like an alien
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Came here on a boat like Elian
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Gonzales, but they want your dollars
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Gotta work them hours, it's so Gladwellian
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Ten thousand hours strong
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Just to keep the lights and the power on
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This new New York feels wrong
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Babylon here but the towers gone
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[Verse 2:]
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Victory so sweet, but all we ever
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Taste is sour, that's the agony of
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I really be in these streets
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While the only Harlem you know is a Japanese club
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I know Queens that'll rock them jewels
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Pulling out ninas 'cause they rock them tools
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We on the Island of Staten
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Follow to Manhattan like a big fan of the Wu
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The Brooklyn you know is the [?] chick
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Spill your blood like a battle with Crips
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Youngsters looking up to the same game
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Hunger in my belly, got the same pains
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It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang
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In pursuit of the food, just to maintain
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It's the same thing when we bang bang, let your fangs hang
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In pursuit of the food, just to maintain
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Attack The Block!!!
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Talib Kweli |