| Yo, my man, how bad do you want it?
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| You know how many cats I threw the pitch, and they never caught it?
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| I told them to bring they lyric, but they never brought it
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| Scared to get ripped off, cheated, deleted, rejected and shorted?
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| Yo, how bad do you want it?
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| FearóI ain’t got no time for it
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| If you want it, yo there’s the trackóput your rhyme on it!
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| This hunger inside of me’s unexplainable, Kris
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| The struggle we put in this box will be put into disc
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| Birth and ever, these family problems is hurtin'
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| Both of my sisters is pregnant, fuckin' feel like murkin'
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| All I have is my word and my balls
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| And my fam and my music speaks for them all
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| It’s the Dominican animal ready to damage, you puttin'
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| Pressure to rappers that think they can challenge you, Kris (uh huh)
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| We been through it all, the grimiest days, this earth ain’t
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| Ready for my brain, comin' to face (word)
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| Everyone plus everyone
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| Do you hear me, KRS-One?
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| Well listen
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| You grimy and hungry?
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| But how long you gonn' trust me?
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| You really down for this cause or just chasin' the money?
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| I be up in them spots to be hot, so dusty and ugly
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| Nothin' be funny, it’s all dark, nothin' sunny
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| Can you walk with me? |
| Talk with me? |
| Pop the cork with me?
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| When we in other cities, will you rep New York with me? |
| (yeah!)
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| I need respect and honor
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| Discipline and no drama
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| How bad you want it, poppa? |
| (with all my…)
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| Loyalty is the key to it all (remember)
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| Get used to my face, we the winners of all
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| By mi gente, yo I go low to say-ah
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| Real like them Washington Heights
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| Niggas there (say yeah!)
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| After you rap, will you stab my back? |
| (never)
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| You gimme a track, will you take that back? |
| (never)
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| I give the word, yo you bustin' your Gatt? |
| (whatever)
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| Respect from your crew? |
| They livin' like that? |
| (they better)
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| This is no game! |
| Why should I make you popular?
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| You know I’m the philosopha
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| How bad do you want it?
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| How bad do you need it?
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| If you see it, you can believe it, perceive it, retrieve it and flaunt it
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| How bad do you want, doggone it, there’s the track, if you want it
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| You got to put your rhyme on it!
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| How bad do I want it? |
| I’m ready to die like Big
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| A serious man with blood in my eyes for this
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| Success doesn’t come overnight
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| It’s gonna be dark a while until I see light (that's right!)
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| What is it?
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| This is no game, why should I do it?
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| KRS-One, me and Peedo runnin' through it
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| I saw you down the street in FedEx
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| You said you had the beats was comin', like «I Got Next»
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| So we went upstairs, my man Choco hooked it up
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| This is KRS-Oneóturn my voice up! |
| Whaó (wha-, wha-)
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| How bad do you want it?
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| How bad do you see it?
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| How bad do you hear it?
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| How bad do you BELIEVE you can be it?
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| If you doubt, then you’re out
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| If you believe, you can achieve
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| I got the city on lock, but I’m gonna hand you the Keys like Alicia
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| You know my style, you know I’m the teacha
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| Philosopha, minister, emcee, Hiphop’s spiritual leader
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| With the heater
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| You comin' with me? |
| You runnin' with me?
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| In the spirit Scott LaRock, JMJ and Pun is with me
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| Yo, cats be steppin' to me ALL the time
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| With the rawest rhyme
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| But two weeks later, they fall to crime
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| If you listenin' to this song, and you want to be put on
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| You must be loyal to the cats that made you strong
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| It could be your friend, your father, you sister, your mother, your brother
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| Or some other
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| Just remember the days when YOU was under!
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| Before the Hummer, before the Benz
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| Before the hundreds, before the fifties, the twenties and tens
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| When you was thirsty, remember the living water, and who poured it
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| Now ask yourself, how bad do you want it? |