[Swizz Beatz:]
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Yo man, it's a real game out here
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Know what I'm sayin Nas?
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Beats back in effect man
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Swizz Beatz da monsta (what's poppin?)
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[Nas:]
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Get in line, everybody get in line
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Listen the fuck up, to what's going down
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Pay attention, aight?
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[Chorus: x2]
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Niggas salute me, bitches salute me
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The block salute me, the hood salute me
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You should salute me, they should salute me
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So fuck who you are
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I'm the motherfuckin general
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[Nas:]
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When I walk through everything stops, silence
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Remain quiet, babies don't cry thugs don't buss
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Cops cut off sirens, oxygen freeze
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Noises to a minimun nigga, I pop and I squeeze
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I represent the pain and struggle
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Cut out your eyeballs then brain-fuck you
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Yo you testin with death
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I'm confronting the justice, expressing my voice to the public
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They got to free some brothas or we kidnap the judges
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They got to free some sistas or we kidnap the judges
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They got to beat the system that's enslaving the poor
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Our practicing, gun rages, they R's and .44's
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Many fought teams and for green this is war
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This is life and I'm the hardest, got ya label all scared
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Callin up the radio, don't want my records to air
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Y'all ain't playin fair, to every rapper in the game,
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I'm comin fo y'all blood, make room for the king... Nas
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[Chorus x2]
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[Nas:]
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I'm the leader, that's it, nobody higher
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Nobody touchin my crown, nobody dyin
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Nobody smoother, harder, tougher, believe it
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I'm much more smarter, much more strategic
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Scholarships and hollow tips, a lot of walkin caskets
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They talk a good one but there's never no action
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And I'm the type to poison ya sista, twist her
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Through with her, put the gun in your face and make you hit her
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Make you quiver -when they silhouette of a Don, Benson
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Light up a Cu-ban, recite a few psalms
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Enlighten you quick, teach you how a king wins wars
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Keep your ears to the street, love your enemies more
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'Cause hate can frustrate, and confuse
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Too eager you lose, patience, plan your attack then you move - ghetto
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Green Berets, got freaks got hoes
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Who be jumpin out of movin cars and land at my feet - because
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[Chorus x2]
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The General (Salute Me)
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Nas |