| Swear I’ll always be right by your side
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| (By your side, baby, by your side)
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| Yeah, I’ll always be right there for you
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| (Be right there, for you)
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| Yeah, you need a real one that’s gon' hold you down
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| (Hold you down) (That's gonna hold you down, yeah)
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| (Hold you down)
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| Is you ready for the real thing?
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| (Are you ready for (yeah) a real one?)
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| Is you ready for the real thing? | 
| (Yeah, yeah)
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| Ooooh, you know what you deserve, huh?
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| 'Bout that action, just can’t hit you with them words, huh?
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| All that «what's your name» shit is for the birds, huh?
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| That’s exactly how a nigga get curved, huh?
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| Not me tho, not how I move
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| Whole different kind of approach: the type that you approve
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| Whole different type of way: you know how I pursue
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| I got you, but it’s what you wanna do
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| Swear I’ll always be right by your side
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| (By your side, baby, by your side)
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| Yeah, I’ll always be right there for you
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| (Be right there, for you)
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| Yeah, you need a real one that’s gon' hold you down
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| (Hold you down) (That's gonna hold you down, yeah)
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| (Hold you down)
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| Is you ready for the real thing?
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| (Are you ready for (yeah) a real one?)
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| Is you ready for the real thing? | 
| (Yeah, yeah)
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| Say, say you want a real one, come roll with me
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| Different locations, where you wanna be?
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| I can take you around the world, what you wanna see?
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| And I can promise you anywhere you wanna be
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| Have you ever met a real one get down like that?
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| See me and my crew, we get down like that
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| And I don’t switch up or get down like that
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| Do you have someone that’s gon' ride like that?
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| Swear I’ll always be right by your side
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| (By your side, baby, by your side)
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| Yeah, I’ll always be right there for you
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| (Be right there, for you)
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| Yeah, you need a real one that’s gon' hold you down
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| (Hold you down) (That's gonna hold you down, yeah)
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| (Hold you down)
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| Is you ready for the real thing?
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| (Are you ready for (yeah) a real one?)
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| Is you ready for the real thing? | 
| (Yeah, yeah)
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| (Yeah)
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| Love fuckin' with a gangsta (fuckin' with a gangsta)
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| 'Cause you know that I’m the truth (know that I’m the truth)
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| Put way too much work in (yeah)
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| For me to ever ever lose (ever ever lose)
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| Follow my lead, baby (follow my lead)
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| Show you what’s good (show you what’s good)
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| You ain’t gotta look no further (no, no) |