Sometimes it all just come together, you know?
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I put my city on my back, now,
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And push the haters in the background
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Together we walk, but divided to the struggle, we fall.
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Got my city on a map, now,
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That¡¯s why I could never back down
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Never back down, show ¡®em through it all,
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You gotta stand tall.
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To all of my friends, enemies and affiliates,
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Burn the back wood, burn it back to your fingertips.
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Let the whole world recognize this accomplishment
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You couldn¡¯t have told me none of this back in ¡¯96.
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The ability to crawl upon the bottom, this bitch,
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This is our time I¡¯m spending mine up in this bitch.
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I still remember the very moment I was enlisted
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I studied on the sadistic, gangster is worth the business.
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And when there¡¯s blood in the streets from my brothers and sisters
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They wanna debate on television about the victim.
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Right or wrong, Treyfa was my little man,
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I would take a chainsaw for my man.
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I put my city on my back, now,
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And push the haters in the background
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Together we walk, but divided to the struggle, we fall.
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Got my city on a map, now,
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That¡¯s why I could never back down
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Never back down, show ¡®em through it all,
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You gotta stand tall.
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For all the moments I wasted on making others happy
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Attack me, I¡¯m bulletproof, tag me, I¡¯ve seen the virus through.
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I never lied to you, still rolling with golden views,
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Spend every word and I mean it, mean it and I really buy to you.
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¡®cause I regret being held in a jail cell,
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I¡¯m handcuffed, superheroes lend me cocktails.
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I never feel, don¡¯t try to patronize me,
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I learn, I¡¯m painfully aware of everything in my surroundings.
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I am shaved, fully shining, never touched the silver lightning,
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The only cross that I bear is covered with some fucking diamonds.
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I hear my city calling, here come the jogging, now are twelve hundred soldiers in the parking lot.
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I put my city on my back, now,
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And push the haters in the background
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Together we walk, but divided to the struggle, we fall.
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Got my city on a map, now,
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That¡¯s why I could never back down
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Never back down, show ¡®em through it all,
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You gotta stand tall.
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So, figure in the action,
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How do you think I made it out that corner apartment?
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Turn my corner to my market, and now I tag it the same,
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Niggers, I told, don¡¯t let that dumb shit.
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¡®cause when the gun clicking, that bullet lady can¡¯t get her life back,
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Karma is a bitch and believe me, she¡¯ll get it right back.
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They say that success is the best revenge, but who really wins if we don¡¯t got really in
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If I had it all, then I probably wouldn¡¯t pray the same
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And the club that I come from sticks the debt with the pain
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My name good in every corner in my city,
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You don¡¯t believe me, then come fuck with me.
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I put my city on my back, now,
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And push the haters in the background
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Together we walk, but divided to the struggle, we fall.
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Got my city on a map, now,
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That¡¯s why I could never back down
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Never back down, show ¡®em through it all,
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You gotta stand tall.
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Stand Tall
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Xzibit |