| I really feel like the almighty dollar took all of the spirit from
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| hip-hop—period
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| Cry tears for the criteria, horsing around on the cafeteria table
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| I spit a rhyme on boom-bap so follow the arrow like Sagittarius
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| Instead of putting they heart into it I see the embalming fluid making it look
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| alive but it’s different now
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| And you low on stamina see the thing is you amateur, damaging, sandwiching
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| Aerodynamic to vanishing got the Atlantic behind your ear again I’m a little
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| twisted behind what I 'ear like Anakin
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| Handling single-handedly like a finger, no wedding ring
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| Quit the rambling, cool your mouth and examine a teething ring
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| I’m cleaning the game poetic, a janitor key to bring
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| Propaganda and affidavit the banner the keep the cling
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| It’s really a thin line with me hearing whatever you got to say like we talking
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| on two cans and a piece of string that’s annually
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| Look up «Star"—I'm in the Webster, Emmanuelly—
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| —Lewis, the pussy niggas survive and they land on they feet
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| And they stand in debris with a can of Febreze
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| Demanding a speech, commander-in-chief—nigga, you wish
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| I ain’t turning up nowhere till I don’t gotta turn my windows up manually
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| And ain’t no stopping till I’m selling out the biggest crowd and you sitting
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| down nigga 'cause it’s different now different now
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| I been watching time go by
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| Staring at the clock till the time go by
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| Yeah, it’s different now
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| Listening to Biggie and my Nas
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| Listening to Biggie and my Nas will I nod
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| Yeah, it’s different now
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| You be putting words together and I bring good people all together with my
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| words see the different now? |
| Give a nigga dap put your middle finger down
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| Oh, you don’t remember? |
| I remember how, written down
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| Oh, I forgot that’s it’s, that’s it’s different now
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| It’s no surprise that I’m still here for standing so long for what I believe in
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| Guarding my Garden of Eden
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| They been tryna cuff ANoyd
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| Since wearin' my Lot 2−9 on Air 1s and trying to stop the bleeding
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| Y’all praying to stop the breathing on hip-hop
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| While I stare at the vinyl of Illmatic, I promised myself it wouldn’t open
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| until I meet him
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| And dap him and tell him, «I ain’t done rappin' until we even as Steven in rap
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| bracket and accurate to the region of mankind.»
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| What if that car crash haved me forever paralyzed?
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| Have the franchise still putting their hands high
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| From a wheelchair craving a shepherds pie
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| Checking profiles give a fuck if you verified
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| Thought you was clean as a whistle but climbing a stair of lies
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| XSee the change in the wives and kids and it’s clarified, went from training
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| wheels to changing wheels then I got tired of that then I clocked into rapping
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| with spare time
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| The listeners today are blindfolded and losing it
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| They shart truce in a pair of chartreuse pants and they zoom in it
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| That shit bright for all of you new niggas
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| Getting the same plate of food and you cool with it
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| What if ANoyd got Connetti on the map
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| With a song that sounded exact
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| Like everything that’s in the rap
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| With a solid, liquid and gas
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| I guess that’s a matter fact
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| 'Cause, honest to God, ain’t no longevity in that
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| Every once a burgundy moon I get a promotion
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| I’m done smoking with no more gaming I’m out of token, Mama told me cut the
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| front lawn and the back too but I’m too connected I unplug modem and then I
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| mowed 'em
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| Y’all just here for the money period nothing else and it’s clear that you put
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| it over the comma like semicolon
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| I don’t just make music for nothing I put my ear to the crowd like I’m Hulk
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| Hogan but lately I’m heart broken it’s different now
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| Bitch nigga it’s different now
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| It’s different now
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| I understand that it’s different now
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| Bitch nigga it’s different now
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| I hate that it’s different now
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| I don’t like that it’s different now
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| It’s different now
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| I been watching time go by
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| Staring at the clock till the time go by
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| Yeah, it’s different now
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| Listening to Biggie and my Nas
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| Listening to Biggie and my Nas will I nod
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| Yeah, it’s different now
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| You be putting words together and I bring good people all together with my
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| words see the different now? |
| Give a nigga dap put your middle finger down
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| Oh, you don’t remember? |
| I remember how, written down
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| Oh, I forgot that’s it’s, that’s it’s different now
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| Oh, I forgot that’s it’s, that’s it’s different now
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| Oh, I forgot that’s it’s, that’s it’s different now
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| Oh, I forgot that’s it’s, that’s it’s different now
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| Yeah, it’s different now
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| Different now
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| Yeah, it’s different now
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| Different now |