Yeah
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Too many hardcore muthafuckas out here in this business
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Ain't gettin their proper loot
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You know what I'm sayin?
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(Right)
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Check the technique
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(Aha)
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[ VERSE 1 ]
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Everybody talkin 'bout the way hip-hop ain't the same
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Suckers kidnapped the game
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I know the biggest in the business, and no joke
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Half of em broke - and none of em smoke
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(Bust the facts, loc)
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I got into this hip-hop game
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Just to try to get a girl and get some light-weight fame
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There'd never been no cash made in it
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So who thought you could get paid with it?
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Just crash the club with my crew and then I'm outta there
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Hit some skins, act bugged, that was a rap career
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Then Run-D.M.C. jumped the fuck off
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Got mad paid, word, kicked the bucks off
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There wasn't many rappers out there rockin the streets
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When hip-hop was just cuts and beats
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I seen _Wildstyle_, dug the scene
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I wanna be an MC, rock, rock on - know what I mean?
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I started crashin rap contests
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Shootin hardcore rhymes through wack MC's chests
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I signed on the lines of a wack contract
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Didn't even read it, fuck that
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They gonna put my record out
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I'm gonna be large, know what I'm talkin about?
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In the first 2 years I made about 300 bucks
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Yo, this business sucks
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But I got another chance and I came correct
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Got a lawyer and accountant, now my shit's legit
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But many won't get no second chance
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And get fucked in this biz without a kiss or a dance
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The game is to exploit young ghetto kids
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A straight pimp game, and there ain't no shame
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And the shit's gone too far
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100 hip-hop labels with all white A&R's
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The game's hijacked
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The rap game's hijacked
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Let me tell you how it happened
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[ VERSE 2 ]
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Now while every MC in the game
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Was worryin about a white boy gettin the fame
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They dug out the foundation
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Now let me give a demonstration
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Say you got a dope group from the hood
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Talkin mad shit like they're up to no good
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You take em to a label
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Now who sits behind the table?
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Some jewish muthafucka that don't know shit
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Tryin to tell y'all what's a fuckin street hit
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The shit's way off course
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It's like me tellin Johnny Cash how to sing about his horse
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You go on tour, the white agency says you're wild
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Tone down your style
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The radio jocks are all pop
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So how the fuck this nigga know what shit to rock?
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The shit that make your face turn green
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Is when you get dissed by a kidnap magazine
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I give a fuck about these muthafuckas
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I'm doin this jam to save my hip-hop brothers
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Get your paperwork straight, kid
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Get a lawyer and accountant just like I did
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Don't blow your dough, cause you will see g's
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But this game has no guarantees
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Learn about publishing points, so you won't be blind
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Learn to read everything you sign
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Then you might have a chance
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If not, bend over, pull down your pants
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The game's hijacked
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(Yeah
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I don't they hear you, brother)
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Yo, the rap game's hijacked
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(Word)
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I'm talkin 'bout a hijack
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(Say it one more time, baby)
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The rap game's hijacked
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Check it
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(Break it down for these niggas)
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[ VERSE 3 ]
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You can go gold and still owe the record label cash
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Yo kid, check the math
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Learn about the word 'recoup', troop
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And stop walkin round all hyped and souped
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You ain't nothin but somethin to be used and worked
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You ain't nothin but a sucker to be duped and jerked
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Cause the fuckin record label don't love ya, pal
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They didn't love ya on the street and don't love ya now
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They're out to make an end, friend
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Cause every dollar you make, they damn near make 10
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They'll take you for everything you got
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Or else they'll sign you and they put on the shelf to rot
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I'm tryin to tell you what's up
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You best to listen to this record even if you hate my fucking guts
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Cause I just can't stand around and watch rap get done
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And my brothers ain't gettin none
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A nigga like me has gotta spit game
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Nigga, get that cash flow. fuck that muthafuckin fame
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Cause the white man's rippin us off once again
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Real hip-hop, my man
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Fool, the rap game's hijacked
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You need to listen, nigga
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The rap game's hijacked
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Need to play this record about ten times
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The rap game's hijacked
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Black people don't o |