[Frank Lucas]
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Most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work, family
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Never forgetting where we came from
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[Verse 1]
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Poor me, dad was gone, finally got my dad back
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Liver bad, he wouldn¡¯t live long, they snatched my dad back
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Guidance? I never had that, streets was my second home
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Welcomed me with open arms provided a place to crash at
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A place to study math at, matter of fact, I learned it all
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Burned it all, this music is where I bury the ashes at
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Flash back, not having much, not having that
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Had to get some chollah bread so you can holla back, and holla that
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My Jewish lawyer too enjoyed the fruit of letting my cash stack
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And just in case a nigga gotta use his rat-tat-tat-tat
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Own boss, own your masters, slaves
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The mentality I carry with me to this very day
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Fuck rich, let¡¯s get wealthy, who else gon feed we?
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If I need it, I¡¯mma get it however, God help me
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¡¦.And I don¡¯t need no hook for this shiiiit
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[Verse 2]
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I¡¯m so fa sho, it¡¯s no facade
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¡°Stay outta trouble¡±, momma said, as momma sighed
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Her fear her youngest son be a victim of homicide
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But I gotta get you outta here momma, or I¡¯mma die ¡¦inside
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And either way, you lose me momma so let loose of me
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I got the rein our direction will soon change
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To live and die in N.Y. in the hustle game
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Hustle caine, hustle clothes, I hustle music
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But hustle hard in any hustle that you pick
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Skinny nigga, toothpick, but, but I do lift
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Weight like I¡¯m using roids, Rolls-Royce keep my movements
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Smooth while manuevering, through all the manure in
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The sewer that I grew up in
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Choices, we make trying to escape
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And I don¡¯t need no hook for this shiiiit
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[Verse 3]
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This is not for commercial usage
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Please don¡¯t categorize this as music
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Please don¡¯t compare me to other rappers
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Compare me to trappers, I¡¯m more Frank Lucas than Ludacris
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And Luda¡¯s my dude, I ain¡¯t trying to diss
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Like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain¡¯t trying to snitch
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I¡¯ma follow the rules no matter how much time I¡¯mma get
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I¡¯mma live and die with the decisions that I¡¯mma pick
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So fuck DeHaven for caving, that¡¯s why we don¡¯t speak
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Made men ain¡¯t supposed to make statements
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End of the story, I followed the code, cracked the safe
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Other niggas ain¡¯t in the game so they practice hate
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Leave that boy Hov alone, why don¡¯t cha?
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You don¡¯t have to if you don¡¯t want to but don¡¯t say I didn¡¯t warn ya
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Oh
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And I don¡¯t need no hook for this shiiiit
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No Hook
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9th Wonder |