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E-40:
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I grit my teeth to keep release, kkep my fatih and hope (hope)
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Need to stop stressing before I have a stroke
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Up in lower development housin' (housin'), talk and turmoil (turmoil)
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Food in our refrigerator never had a chance to spoil
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You know why? (Why?) Wasn't rich wasn't poor (wasn't poor)
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You know why? (Do you know why?) cause it's the boss player from next
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door
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(from next door)
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Sleepin' on the floor, hectic, (hectic), but that's expected
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B-Legit:
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When I was young, I never could afford no Nikes, and everybody else
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had
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brand new bikes
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I use to hike to school, in the rain with fools, 13 deep in the ghetto
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streets (in the ghetto streets)
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Hook:
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LeVitti:I've struggled and I've strived
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Suga T:Struggled and I've strived
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LeVitti:Been a hustler all my life
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Suga T:Been a hustler all my life
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Both:I ain't rich and I ain't poor, did more dirt than you would know
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LeVitti: I've struggled and I've strived, strived
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D-Shot:
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In 1984 was the year for the Shot to step through the door (through
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the
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door)
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That's when my daddy walked away from my mama (mama)
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She tried to work it out but it wasn't no stoppin' (stoppin')
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Barely paying the rent, she had four mouths to feed, hot water and
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corn
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bread (corn bread)
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Watching the stress while my momma straight handlin' things (handlin'
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things) ?
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Suga-T:
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Coming up wasn't easy for the no should I be (c'mon)
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Living dad to day depended on the first of fifteen
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I had 2 kids to raise from a teenage love
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You couldn't tell me a thing because I knew what was up
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Hook
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B-Legit:
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I brought it down the block, crooked at 16 (16)
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Bought my first 22 from a dope fiend (dope fiend)
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I kept my nose clean, paper by all means
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And only real niggas rolled on the team
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E-40:
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Ah, ah, a most of you ain't never had to pawn (had to)
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A lot of you ai't had to stoned out (stoned out)
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But there's something different on my behalf (behalf)
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Do what I do to get the cash (get the cash)
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D-Shot:
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My daddy didn't give a shit, I had to struggle and strive to make a
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motherfuckin' grip
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And every dollar and 15 cents, I gave to my mamma cause we wasn't that
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rich
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Suga-T:
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Me the knot, give up the twat, hoes wasn't taking that shit on my
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block
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We had a lot of foes, when we first started out (spit it girl)
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Now there's players everywhere from the north to the south (beeotch)
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Hook
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Struggled & I Strived
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The Click |