Everybody got a story man
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This is mine!
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See I been walking on this tightrope
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Feeling like it's life or death
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Music is my life though,
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All I need's a quiet set
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To go under those headphones,
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Write a couple rhymes and vent
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Only time I feel like I've actually got my mind in check
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Listening to music till
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I was losing all my sense of stress
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Everything just melts away
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My problems went ahead and left
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Tapped into my brain
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And now it's working like Professor X
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Got some rapping superpowers
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Never give the pen a rest
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Grew up bumping DMX, Eminem, and Red & Meth
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Ludacris and Tip brought
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The south up to Connecticut
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Back when Wu-Tang
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Was telling people to protect they neck
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When I discovered rap and I ain't left it yet
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I was just a crazy kid just tryna find my way
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Now these people listen
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When I look into the mic and say
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Now it's flipped around cause
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I'm the music that these kids will play
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Just like how I was bumping Big and Dre
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Shit how crazy is that
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Started out as just a kid who could rap
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And now it's gotten so much bigger than that
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Now that I got it ain't no giving it back
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So now it's time to take my victory lap
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It's time to take my victory lap
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Since I started knew my life would be different
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Cause it's my dream and I've been dying to live it
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I've been out here paying dues
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But you know that's just the price of admission
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So just appreciate these pieces of my life when I spit it
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Yeah this music is my lifeline,
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Use it as a getaway
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Since I started really learning in seventh grade
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Wrote the words to Renegade Em and Jay
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On the wall of my college room
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So I would look up to it every day
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I've been on that shit, making records, rehearsing
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Now it's time for the Wizard
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To go and step from the curtain
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I shed my blood and tears
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And all of my sweat from the working
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I spent all of my younger years
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Trying to perfect what I'd turn into
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To be listened to and critiqued by
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Anybody who's surfing the internet
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But remember I'm a regular person
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Whose parents bought him CDs
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And they would check for the curses
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So I was stuck listening to The Chronic Edited Version
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Till I took'em both aside,
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Said mommy you gotta see
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This hip-hop shit is me,
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And it's always gonna be
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And now all these years later and they truly believe
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This the life I was meant to lead real shit
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Started out as just a kid who could rap
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And now it's gotten so much bigger than that
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Now that I got it ain't no giving it back
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So now it's time to take my victory lap
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It's time to take my victory lap
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Since I started knew my life would be different
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Cause it's my dream and I've been dying to live it
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I've been out here paying dues
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But you know that's just the price of admission
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So just appreciate these pieces of my life when I spit it
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You know for a true artist
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Someone who really cares about what they do
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There's nothing that comes before the music
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Cause the music, in essence,
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Is really just an extension of that person
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It doesn't matter what color you are,
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Where you come from
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What religion you look to during hard times
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And good music is good music
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And it's easy to get sidetracked
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By the money and the women
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And everything else that comes along with the fame
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But I'm in this from the music,
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At the end of the day this is my dream
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You know, making music is therapy for me
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And I'll never let anything get in the way of that, never
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Pieces Of My Life
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| Chris Webby |
