| Imagine being born in a hospital whose doors open up right into a cemetery
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| How’s that for metaphor?
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| Living behind the jet strip
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| Where women remove they clothes for tips
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| What was the alternative? |
| How else they feed their kids?
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| A den for men that feel no love
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| From block to block from blood to cuz
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| And when my dad walked through the door I ain’t remember who he was
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| I was seven, watching riots, while the neighbors rolled them tires
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| Down the street with Dayton rims
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| You watched the news, I lived in it
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| Look at the signs, they say «black owned»
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| So we gon' leave that shop alone
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| Burning down the Burger King
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| The ghetto coming back to take the throne
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| Then my brother came home bloody
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| He was trying to keep the peace
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| Now I hear a whole new meaning when they scream «Fuck the Police!»
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| When you’re lost, I’ll find you through twilight in Baldwin Hills
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| When it’s dark, I’ll light you, a promise I will fulfill
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| Nothing’s wasted, moments, graces, still my heart
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| When you’re lost, I’ll find you on the south side of Inglewood
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| I grew up in «A Different World» but had a thing for Latin girls
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| She said «I'm not Hispanic or Latina
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| I’m Mexican and that’s por vida»
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| Her uncle said «Boy, I don’t like ya»
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| So we would meet on Arbor Vitae
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| Because I can’t take you nowhere yet
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| All I got is cancelled welfare checks
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| And I couldn’t cross the Lennox line
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| They’d whoop my ass every time I tried
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| Ambiguous with the light brown skin
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| «See I’m like you» I kept telling them
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| Even if you don’t believe me
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| When the cops come, they still beat me
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| La Cienega and Hill, yeah, that’s where my homeboy got killed
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| In the alley where they tried to shoot my moms, damn
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| First time I ever thought to grab a gun, shit
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| So when y’all was learning violin, see I was learning violence
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| And when all y’all was learning violin, I was learning violence
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| When you’re lost, I’ll find you through twilight in Baldwin Hills
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| When it’s dark, I’ll light you, a promise I will fulfill
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| Nothing’s wasted, moments, graces, still my heart
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| When you’re lost, I’ll find you on the south side of Inglewood
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| Centinela Hospital where I was born to die
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| That is of course as long as it don’t get too gentrified
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| Ain’t gotta waste no gas on travel
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| My corpse will be like ghetto cattle to catapult across the street to that same
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| old cemetery
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| When you’re lost, I’ll find you through twilight in Baldwin Hills
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| When it’s dark, I’ll light you, a promise I will fulfill
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| Nothing’s wasted, moments, graces, still my heart
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| When you’re lost, I’ll find you on the south side of Inglewood
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| Give me one reason to stay and I will, and I will, yes I will
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| I’ll put my fears on display, yes I will, yes I will, yes I will
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| You don’t want the best for me
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| You just want the rest of me
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| How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
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| How bad? |
| I’ma show you how to get it
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| How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
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| How bad? |
| I’ma show you how to get it
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| Oh, fuck, oh
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| Run straight to the door
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| Away from everything that you’ve been dying for
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| You really think they’re ever gonna fuck with you?
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| That’s a price you might pay, but you can’t afford
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| All I know, know, we can’t be sure
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| I’m married to the game like it’s mi amor
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| Go on and hurt me once again, my painful truth
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| I might take another L, but I knew the score before
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| You ain’t seen the last of me
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| I just want the world to see
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| You can fucking have it
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| How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
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| How bad? |
| I’ma show you how to get it
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| How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
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| How bad? |
| I’ma show you how to get it
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| Motherfucker
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| You want it bad but you don’t really really want the
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| You want it bad but you ain’t really ready for the (Truth)
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| You want it bad but you don’t really really want the
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| You want it bad but you ain’t really ready for the (Truth)
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| You want it bad huh? |
| (Truth) You want it bad huh? |
| (Truth)
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| You want it bad huh? |
| (Truth) How bad do? |
| (Truth)
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| You want it bad huh? |
| (Truth) How bad do? |
| (Truth)
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| How bad do? |
| (Truth) How bad do you really want it?
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| How bad?
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| How bad?
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| How bad?
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| How bad do you really want it?
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| How bad?
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| How bad?
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| How bad?
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| I’ma show you how to get it |