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I testified
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My mama cried
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Black people died
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When the other man lied
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See the TV, listen to me double trouble
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I overhaul and I'm comin'
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From the lower level
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I'm takin' tabs
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Sho nuff stuff to grab
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Like shirts it hurts
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Wit a neck to wreck
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Took a poll 'cause our soul
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Took a toll
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From the education
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Of a TV station
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But look around
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Hear go the sound of the wreckin' ball
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Boom and Pound
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When I
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Shut 'em down
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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What I use in the battle for the mind
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I hit it hard
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Like it supposed
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Pullin' no blows to the nose
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Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows
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Then what it is
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Only 5 percent of the biz
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I'm addin' woes
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That's how da way it goes
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Then U think I rank never drank, point blank
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I own loans
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Suckers got me runnin' from the bank
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Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee
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I never saw a way to pay a sap
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To read the law
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Then become a victim of a lawyer
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Don't know ya, never saw ya
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Tape cued
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Gettin' me sued
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Playin' games wit' my head
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What the judge said put me in the red
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Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead
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No no
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My education mind say
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Suckers gonna pay
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Anyway
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There gonna be a day
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'Cause the troop they roll in
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To posse up
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Whole from the ground
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Ready to go
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Throw another round
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Sick of the ride
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It's suicide
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For the other side of town
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When I find a way to shut 'em down
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Who count the money
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In da neigborhood
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But we spendin' money
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To no end lookin' for a friend
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In a war to the core
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Rippin' up the poor in da stores
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Till they get a brother
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Kickin' down doors
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Then I figure I kick it bigger
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Look 'em dead in the eye
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And they wince
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Defense is pressurized
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They don't want it to be
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Another racial attack
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In disguise so give some money back
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I like Nike but wait a minite
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The neighborhood supports so put some
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Money in it
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Corporations owe
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Dey gotta give up the dough
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To da town
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or else
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We gotta shut 'em down
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Shut Em Down
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Public Enemy |