[Intro]
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[Intro]
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In the hood they used to tell me,
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You ain't gonna go far man
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I used to be like what?
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They said Wyclef Jean you ain't gonna go far
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Rappers don't rap in, play it the guitar
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I started off a battle emc, but a wise man told me
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If you gonna make money, you gotta learn to write your sheet music
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Yeah, like Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus boy,
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Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus boy,
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Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus
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Write my own sheet music like Amadeus
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You thought I was a ballerina cause you seen me shake my hips with Shakira, Shakira
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Started off in the underground, from mind on the stereo, now I'm surround sound
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From here to Bangkok, ahead of my time like Jimi Hendrix playing Woodstock
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Playing hoodstock before I had the dreadlocks
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Used to reminisce …out the music and sell crops
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Grow my own crops, living in the pj
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When angel Gabriel said it's all a masquerade
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Eyes with no face, sneakers with no lace
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Feel the earth spinning but I'm standing in the same space
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Started off, as a battle emc, yeah, but a teacher once told me
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Man if you gonna make money, you gotta learn to write your sheet music
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Yeah, like Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus boy,
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Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus boy,
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Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus
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Write my own sheet music, yeah, yeah
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That's what I'm talking bout yeah
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Let me take you all back, yeah
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Let me take you back to when I broke full
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My first battle, in high-school
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I mean I barely spoke English, so I flipped it in Spanish
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Bita amiga, Buenos dias senorita
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Como estas us he is su familia?
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Foes and enemies meaning the same in dictionary
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This ain't Pictionary
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All you see is a cemetery
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But the girls man they still ain't convinced
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They got convinced when I flipped it in French
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Quand je mas de la valeur de la monde,
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Je ne crai on peu mal ... avec moi
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Quand je fel amour... de ma vie, toujour a le...
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Me and ... in the hood, worked in a beauty saloon
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For ek he was a courion, like na na na na ...
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Yeah, every day in the hood I wrote a verse
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I used to battle in front of my daddy church
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I got a brother that rap, sister that sing
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Cousin that sling, uncle upstate, time on the bank
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Beef on the block, war with the crops, farmers with crops
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Shovels in they hands, screaming legalize the peter tuck
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Even got hip hop cops follow me red dot
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Keep a camcorder, just in case they wanna frame the author
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Freedom of speech keep teach good times
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Keep an iron ... under the seat, just in case your hoodie's a white sheep
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They used to burn crosses, but now they can't approach me
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Cause my mansion's haunted with Malcolm X's ghost
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I used to be a battle emc, but a wise man told me
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If you gonna make money, you gotta learn to write your sheet music
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Yeah, like Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus boy,
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Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus boy,
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Amadeus gotta write like Amadeus
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Write my own sheet music like Amadeus.
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Amadeus
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| Wyclef Jean |
