[verse 1]
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Played in cincinatti
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Wit my whole head nappy
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Made a rally in the street
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Wit nothin but a beat
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Gotta grudge against a judge
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Kick em out that seat
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You are what you eat
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So what you eatin
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Same message to your mind
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Be self defeatin
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Sick n tired of bein sick
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And tired of bein beaten
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Saw em drop it like it
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Was way too hot and too fast
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For hip hop doo wop rock or bop
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Aint here to hurt you
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Dont hang in them circles
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Government aint got me
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Yet so yall dont stop me
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See a stampede of fake cats
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Runnin from bill cosby
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What does he gotta do wit you doin you?
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Yall know what?
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Dj lord gimme that cut
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Bring that beat back
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Thats whats up
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[verse 2]
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Feedback from truly
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Freedblacks
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Gotta think outta this
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Box of hard knocks
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Lined em up at fort knox
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To die in iraq
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You dont know i rock?
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What you under a rock?
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Old cats beggin us to bring that beat back
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Each generation thinks
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The next one is wack
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Jumpstarted in the daze of crack
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R&b reagan, daddy bush
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Way the hell on back
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Pray to god
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Feel like i got a church in myself, good god uh
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Cant get no help
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I say again healthcare cutback
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Sht is wack
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Bring that beat back
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[verse 3]
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They say the youth dont matter
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And the old dont mind
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It takes a lotta spine
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To build all them young minds
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Some of us get ghetto at the wrong damn time
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Album what? we just makin one at a time
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To save another brother whose life on the line
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A big shot to claim some rocks and shine
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Signs of a soul gone solo
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Robbed blind
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A very small part of half the worlds crime
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Runaway child blown by an old land mine
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Little ones workin in diamond mines
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So cats can say whats hers and whats mine
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Diamonds is girls best friend
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So whys he cryin
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[verse 4]
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See when yall hear it get near it
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And you recognize the lyrics
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You trained to refrain
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And you start to fear it
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Escapism
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Like today there aint racism
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Obviously yall aint see
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Black folks on tv
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Judgement calls
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Made on behalf of you and me
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Or you and i
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Do or die
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I say an i for an i
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Dividin line
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Got the poor people
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Payin for crime
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Corporations gettin paid off our jailtime
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Now yall can tell russell
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Yes i knock the hustle
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Cause 2 million in lockdown
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Under federal muscle
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Beyond the streets
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These kids is always watchin
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Watching some of these jerks when they go berserk
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So i work
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Bring That Beat Back
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Public Enemy |