[Intro:]
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Hit me hard, now
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Ladies and gentlemen, you made the right choice this evening
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[Chorus: x2]
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If you know me, you know I
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Love my family love my God
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Before I knew either I loved my art
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So I'm married to the pen till death do us part
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Rock hard with all my heart
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College broads call me avant garde
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Probably 'cause I'm all off the chart
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Only thing poppy about me
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Is what my Puerto Rican mami call me when she on me
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And the raw me is all I let y'all see
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I believe I rock it properly
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Obviously a lot of y'all agree
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Remind me, what the fuck can stop Ali?
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Only me as far as I can see
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Line 3 of "My Philosophy"
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By BDP, it apply to me
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I'm just the guy to lead a crew
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That means the true people who believe in you
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And hold you down and do what they need to do
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Street Preacher
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Say you don't believe what these people teach
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Well me neither
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He who follows his dream is deemed leader
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The freedom fighter meets the peace keeper
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See me creeping up in the pulpit
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With a full clip fit to speak to the people
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May I suggest you just believe dude?
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Everything he speak on, really true
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He's proved he would never mislead you
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Or treat you as nothing less than equal
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That's why they call me Brother Ali, too
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The feeling always seems to bleed through
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No quitting I kill it until the beats through
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No kidding I'm real in everything we do
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Rap beef bullshit so see through
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They don't like the hoops they got to leap through
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So they turn on each other like the weak do
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Your little teeth chew meat, fool me too
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[Chorus x2]
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Rest assured I'm the best to do it in my neck of the woods
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Hell yes I'm good
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You can give me any test and I'll prove it no question
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Let this be a lesson to you
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When a superior send a message through the air waves
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Your way, fool, just accept it
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And consider it a blessing
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I won't rest till the moment they press play
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This jam come down and cave your chest in
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There's a couple more things y'all have to know
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Y'all been violating the rapper code
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Can't just walk around here acting bold
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Got to earn respect to brag and boast
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Skills get you that not swag and clothes
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Chin might get tapped, I crack your nose
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Fall back before y'all collapse
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Me, I'm an artist all a y'all are acts
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That's why my heart bleed all on the track
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Tell me what the fuck's wrong with that
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Y'all foreplaying I'm raw dogging that
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I lead the way 'cause y'all lost the path
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This dialogue is all about the facts
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That's why my stories are hard to match
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Never been afraid at all, follow that
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[Chorus x2]
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Preacher in here this evening
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Let me see your hands if you believe him
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I don't know but I got this feeling
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These people need some healing
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And there just so few real ones
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I got just what you're seeking
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That giant can't keep sleeping
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Wake up and touch that freedom
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The Preacher
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Brother Ali |