*featuring Minnesota
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[Minnesota]
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Hear Me, See Me
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Welcome to Soundview Projects
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Bronx New York, 10473
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Intersection action ribs touching
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New gutter smacks replacing the whole Dutchman
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Loose mamis fucking, they definite land mines
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Dudes with no right hustle throwing gang signs
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Empty in the webbings broke and underpaid
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Fighting federal cases with legal aids
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The unlit stage tonight performing lime desires to eat
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Can get you in a 8 by 5, the corner's younger
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I smell feel touch and taste they hunger
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Next in line to rep these street signs to they blunder
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Under, wiping tears from his eyes facing the felony
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These niggaz wanna be Pistol Pete -without the penalty
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His last words, promise me this much in death
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Don't my boy live to retrace my steps
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Minne- stay safe move quiet and get it
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If you encounter opposition get a inch from they face with It
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Later amigo, digest the day to end discreetly
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Sex money and boss
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My ties to hear me see me
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True villain
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Face covered, driving gloves
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Commit by my lonely when push comes to shove
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They say that grown men lay on they prey
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Took shorts in the street
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Came back and made up for that with that white sheet
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Revenge is best served cold
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Get it the same way you give it
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This ain't fear I just need to get away with it
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Son stop over here(?), you looking at me like I'm lame
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But I'm looking at y'all like y'all call this the drug game
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Grand child hosing sims
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Put the heroin in queens
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Put Pops Freeman on in the early seventies
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I sat in rooms with money machines
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Drugs sitting 3 feet off of the floor
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Cover the smell of the raw
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Chest moves like bars scale my connects untimely
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King Henry from 12th street flooded the Bronx in the 90's
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03 scene MVP and one Accord
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Boss makes decision paper wins awards
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[Mos Def]
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See Me, Hear Me
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Welcome to Brooklyn, New York City 11206
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Roosevelt Projects, wild rose water the plant
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Son you know what it is
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From the moment that you come over the bridge
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And if you don't ride with me
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I'm gonna show you some shit
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Ima show you where my niggaz stay sure on the mix
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Ima show you where the pain and the poetry is
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Ghetto young'ns spend a lot of time alone in the crib
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BET on the screen, walls and posters of BIG
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Hustlers getting dough sitting low on the 6
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Blazing up the ambro glow over they wrist
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Hop in the game knowing the risk
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Still down to load up they clip
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Gamblers with hopes of rolling the trip
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But when you hear head crack there ain't no rolling again
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Snatch the dice and everything you want is going it in
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This how it happens, good people, bad habits, diabetics, crack addicts
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Asthmatics
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Searching for the truth leaping through the holy tablet
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The bible, the Q uran, or the ten crack commandments
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Speak on it God, What's today's mathematics
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The five day forecast, the Dow Jones average
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The price of beer, cigarettes, bread, milk and pampers
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Life is a test and we all got the answer
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The streets keep calling its hard not answer
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And on my government-my attribute-my all
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So it's only natural I holla black and respond
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Brooklyn stand up and make 'em all sit down
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(?) We do not fuck around
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That's what it is (All Day)
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That's what is Niggaz (Official, Official)
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That's how it is Niggaz
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BX, BK live all day
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Get with it
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Grown Man Business
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Grown Man Business
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Mos Def |