73rd and San Pedro,
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Uncle Sunny and Odell
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Take your pick on what killed ya
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Bullets, cancer, or jail
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Huh, what a life.
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Listen
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I came out a town in gangs
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And a gang of grace
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Cuz fo' sho' sin abounds and round these parts
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Crowns is made of tin foil
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And them boys play Halo with real guns
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Lay low
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Right there I blang slang
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That twice born rhetoric
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Our Papi pound the ground
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And out came all humanity
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Write heavy handed
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Sharpie ink laced with mercury
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Magnetic raps to draw out all impurities
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Round the time the good Lord took mama winnin
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The light bulb turned on
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This world ain't my home
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I huddled up to Triage
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With curb servers and griots
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That's such an L.A. reference
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All good if you don't get it
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But for those who would listen
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I break you out your radio prison
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Redefine manhood, blackness, and time
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Shape and define culture
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Let me fashion you some shades
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Introduce you to a trend that transcends the will of men
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LORD
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I ain't a product
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I ain't apologizing
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You ain't a number
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Pay them no minding
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Ring the alarm
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We came to redefine cutter
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Carve truth in his heart
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And love on her arms
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Hey, I'm literate in graffiti
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I am not at all kidding
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From the heart of the city
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That Stevie lived just enough for
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Jackson, Mississippi: My people toiled the soil
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And share croppers' pop coppers got they kin lynched in
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That was the lynch pin of the mass migration into Texas
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Rest of us would push west still
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Manifest destiny
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A black American family
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Wanted better for they kids
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And landed in Southern Cali
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Who knew it was a war zone, my uncles got recruited in
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Shawn and Kiona seen death out in Compton
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But they ain't fall victim
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Cousin Brandon either
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We should have framed the tax return and moved us to Covina
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There I met the mic and spray can instead of blue rags
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And fell in love with flairs and entiendo Spanglish
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Stand on my own and rep the Son of Man
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And brand my own chest so I would never blend in
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LORD
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Thanks to Christopher
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Redefine Cutter
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