[verse 1]
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Celebrity the new drug
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In america
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Gotta have it
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Gotta be it
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So the young ones see it
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Watch out now
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Looka here now
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In these get rich or die tryin times
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Greed that i see
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Got these cats
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Whipped by tv
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3 generations of fatherless women
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We drownin instead of swimmin
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This aint what yall asked for
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Thats what they locked ya ass up for
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And closed the door
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Beyond these streets
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These kids is always watchin
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See it aint been the same
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Since teen summitt left the game
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Off the air, who cares?
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Now kids get programmed
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Ask their peoples
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Who buy them almost everything the stars wear
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People see , people do
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See the new pied pipers
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Got a hold on you
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Back to the boogaloo
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Get a shot
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So you wont catch the flu
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Dont get shot
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And get a hole in you
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[verse 2]
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Im talkin advanced
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But goin back at the same time
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Rewind
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So what, some of this song dont rhyme
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Like i said
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Most of us get ghetto at the wrong time
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Fear
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So leave a little room for god
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Up in here
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Back in the day
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Even real pimps, hustlers, players
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Told young cats
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Cmon get their lives on track
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These raps you hear today
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Is a bad ass act
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Im here to tell it
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Like it ought to be
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It aint no kids fault to me
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35 year olds
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Actin 16
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Know what i mean
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You dont work, mean you dont eat
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You need more than a ball
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And some bomb ass beats
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New kicks on your feet
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Need your mind in these time
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To compete
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Make your world complete
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Sweet not sour
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Thats what they really call fightin the power
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[verse 3]
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Here it is , no fable
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I put it all on the table
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Spendin my time
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Identifyin whos behind
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Some of these labels
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Who profit off the spit
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Some of the same way same cats
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That owned them ships
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Yes
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Its a business
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Butslavery was too
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Prison industrial complex
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New slavery lookin to own you
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Ownin the labels , stations, jails and cemeteries
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Thug life
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Turnin hip hop into a one stop shop
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Somebody behind
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Makin up your own damn mind
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Signed , sealed delivered
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In a nigger package
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So dumb you cant hear
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The ignorance protected
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By the backpacker
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Who co signed the say so
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Claimin they dig the flow
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Filled wit jim crow
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Return of the old negro
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How you gonna say no to drugs
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If you dont say no to thugs
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See the government
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Sweep it deep
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Under the rug
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Preachin To The Quiet
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Public Enemy |