I gotta get out of here, this city's gonna kill me
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Could be anywhere, anywhere but here
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I wonder how long before this shit gone take me under
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[Verse 1:]
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Moving through New York City in a black seven fifty
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Like Batman moving through Gotham
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Dodging pot holes as I gently move
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Through Harlem with my wheels on slalom
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Pain in my eyes as I'm passing the place
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Where they found Sean Bell and they shot him
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Forty one times, he committed no crime
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But I guess life ain't Times Square
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But in the city that's gritty where the bottom is shitty
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Where the mayor's a billionaire
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You learn Manhattan keep on making it
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And Brooklyn, keep on taking it
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Cause life just ain't that fair
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For the kids in the park, watching out for the Narcs
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Putting Sour Diesel in the air
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Tryin' to flip them a pack, stack up a couple racks
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And make it the hell outta herea¢æ| (New York)
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[Hook:]
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Let the city peel away right from under you
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There are too many clouds in the sky
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I can hear them calling out to me
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I can hear them calling out
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[Bridge:]
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Let the city peel away
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There were too many ghosts in this town
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I can hear them calling out to me, out to me!
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[Verse 2:]
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I maneuver through the ATL in a black SL
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With the goddess of a black female
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This is black male Heaven with the ballers are professing
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But to me home feels like Hell
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Even though it's black cops from the mayors to the top
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Black blood still gets spilled
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They raided a house, no drugs were ever found
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But a black grandmother laid killed
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Like the dream of the King when the sniper took his life
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On the balcony of Lorraine Motel
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From now forthward, these young black boys
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Seem to self-sabatoge they selves
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Or maybe they're just smart, and they choose to go hard
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Cause they know the good guy will fail
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So you ask what happens to a dream deferred
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Langston, well it kills itself... (Atlanta)
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[Hook:]
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Let the city peel away right from under you
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There are too many clouds in the sky
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I can hear them calling out to me
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I can hear them calling out
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Anywhere but here
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Anywhere But Here
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Killer Mike |