f/ Big T, Lil Ron & Young Redd
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(Intro)
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Hi, this is the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
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Today we're interviewing Lil' Flip (what's up man)
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So Lil' Flip tell me, how long have you been rapping
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(man I've been rapping ever since)...
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[Lil' Flip]
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1995, I was in junior high
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I saw a lot of shit, so I was glad to be alive
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A lot of people died, but a lot of people here
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And when I turned 15, my vision got clear
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It's time to be a man, time to make a plan
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It's cool to make a hundred, but it's best to make a grand
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My Granny got sick, and then they found cancer
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We got to pay the doctors, but God got the answer
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The surgery went good, my Granny doing well
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My career take over so i can'y go to jail
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And to my niggas on the block, stop selling rocks
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Cause I'ma tell the truth you can't outsmart the cops
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You see what I did, I only drop hits
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Chopping up game, y'all chopping up bricks
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And some niggas snitch, cause they can't take the heat
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How we gone go buy a system when the system got his beat
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[Young Redd]
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Hey, I'm from the home of the Astros, home of the Rockets
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Born to rap yo, with a microphone in my pocket
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Always thought I was grown, you couldn't tell me nothing
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I would talk shit if you tried to tell me something
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But I regret that, I had some minor setbacks
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Old people thought my future would be jet black
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All my years growing up, I thought life was a game
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You can't make it real far, thinking life is a game
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Yeah we lost a couple of friends, I almost lost my brother
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I don't know what would of happened if we lost eachother
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Everyday is something new, I just take it in stride
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You only got one life, so enjoy the ride
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Sometimes I was paid, sometimes I was broke
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Me and Gray started hustling but my mama didn't know
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But it's cool, cause now I'm into this music
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The man gave us a gift and we loving to use it
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And if you look real close you'll see
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That you can only be you, and I can be me
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Cause can't nobody ever live my life but me
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But you will never see what I see like me huh me
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(Chorus: Big T - 2x)
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And you don't know what I've been through
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So you shouldn't judge me
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And you don't know what I will and I won't do
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So you shouldn't judge me
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[Lil Ron]
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It's getting harder now I just don't understand
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Why the people in the world disgrace the black man
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All that I could say, is pray and let it be
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Little right and try your best not to end up like me
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See I was the nigga that slang dope and steal cars
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Glad I stopped before it led behind bars
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Heart aches and scars, help me feel my way
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Understand today I got a decision to make
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Now do I wanna live right or continue going wrong
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I'm never at home this music keep a nigga gone
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But this is what gets me, who are you to judge
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Cause I'm young and black, people still hold a grudge
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Just a nudge right now'd push me over the end
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When I was 14 I lost a very close friend
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And ever since then my life ain't been the same
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That's the biggest reason why I had to make a change
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[Lil' Flip]
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Never judge a book by it's cover, a man by his wealth
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And if you already on your feet why don't you help somebody else
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This what I was taught, so that's what I live by
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Cause you can't take none of this shit with you when you die
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So everyday I try, to keep my head high
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But these bird ass niggas always jump fly
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Should I take em out the game, naw I'ma use my brain
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I'ma kill em with kindness, and blow up my name
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I came from nothing, and now I got a little change
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A nigga happy now but I went through some pain
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And everyday it rain, there's gone be some sunshine
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I never thought I could put my whole life in one rhyme
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(Chorus - 2x)
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What I Been Thorugh
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Lil' Flip |