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(laughter)
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*scratching*
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*Down the world is...*
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{Jeru The Damaja}
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This is to my brothers and sisters in the ghetto
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Avoid jail legend, fingerprints on full metal
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Jackets like design, so that you can't hack it
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But you musn't get caught up in these devilish tactics
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Never let the man pull ya string like Geppetto
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The game's the same, boricua or moreno
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Don't watch ya step and you be like, mi amigo
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Forenzics made the maps, so now he's on death row
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Yo what's the steelo, real brothers do it on the d-low
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Knowing's have the battle, so now you know
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To be on point, cuz anybody can be a casualty
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Some brothers lost there life, fuckin with O.P.P.
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Um robbery and P.C.P.
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From the cradle to the state penitentary
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He'll be in the middle of next century
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Ask me, is it crying SAKNE
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You got to watch how you flow and you will grow
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If not you get tripped up in the ghetto
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Chorus 2X
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This is for the youth blak luv
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This is for the ghetto, blak luv, blak luv
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{Jeru The Damaja}
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This is to my brothers and sisters in the ghetto
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Sellin yae yo, playin c-lo, duckin po-po
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Some brothers got murdered over a kilo
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5-0 ask questions, but nobody know
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What's the M.O., another brother trying to get dough
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Be careful how you live, cuz that's how you go
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Wild like Rambo, get shot down by the Commando
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Call your co-defendent sing like D'Angelo
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No problemo, but upstate you sing soprano
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Police sadimize, a man at the 7-0
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Be careful where you go yo, and just in case you ain't know
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I flow, to liberate the ghetto
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Chorus 4X
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{Jeru The Damaja}
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This is to my brothers and sisters in the ghetto
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Trying to be like Pablo, DeNiro, Al Pacino
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You be all right until you run up on Columbo
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Get caught red handed, so you got to go
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You lose the crib, the car, the women and the dough
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This can't be happenin so you like "Oh No"
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So avoid this fate, and absorb the conscious flow
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This is not a demo, strictly for the ghetto
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Not the limo, work for the pimp, hustler and the ho
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And I'm gonna let you know
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Whether you as black as jack or brown as nino
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Blak Luv, is what we need to flow
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From the ghetto
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Chorus 4X
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Outro:
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Peace
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(laughter)
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Ugh!
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Ugh! Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Ugh! Ugh!
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Ugh!
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(laughter)
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Ugh! Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Ugh! Ugh!
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Ugh!
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(laughter)
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fade...
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Blak Luv
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Jeru the Damaja |