[Nas]
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From Willie Lynch to Willie Hutch, right on, we (Superfly)
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Made Gucci the shit - Louie too, suits and ties
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Player trophies, pray to Goldie
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Picture wax museums full of Black Panth's and triple OGs'
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Aunt Jemina hoes, historic horse shit
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Girls from long time ago, stagecoach with the horse, kid
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Witchdoctors, good ol' pickpockets
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Sip Moonshine, so-called coons, shines, and darkies
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I love y'all; pyramids to cotton fields
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to Wrigley Fields, forgetten men who DID get killed
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Christmas addicts, the first blasted
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Peace to the rich lady, purse snatcher shot in the back
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I know your hunger kid, I know they hung your dad
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Burnt ya mama crib, I know that hurt you bad
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Minstrel shows; from gold to shackles and back to gold
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We act like we home, matter of fact - we are home
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Bad attitudes, octoroon skin tones
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Slave food turned to soul food, collards to neck bones
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Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag
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Bet she had a nigga with her to help her old ass!
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[Eban Thomas]
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As James Baldwin says,"You can only be destroyed
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by believing that you really are
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what the white world considers - a nigger" [echoes]
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[Chorus: sung w/ ad-libs]
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No matter how, hard you try, you can't stop, us nooooow...
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No matter how, hard you try, you can't stop, us nooooow...
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[Nas]
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Can't be stopped..
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Yo, on Dateline, the other night they showed hate crimes
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Gave a blood time 'cause he fought with his canine
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Bestiality, Humane Society
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Go to China, see how they dine, see what they eat
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Better yet ask PETA, whoever; which animal makes suede?
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If not for suede, would you have survived the Dark Ages?
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Cannibal ways of the ancient Caucasians
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Stare you like you're steak tartar, pinot noir
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David Star on the chain of Sammy Davis
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He helped pave the way for Southern Crankers and them Harlem Shakers
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Now we gettin our papers, they try to censor the words
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and stop our money comin, but you can't escape us - haters
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[Chorus]
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You Can't Stop Us Now
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| Nas |
