| You’ll live and you’ll learn
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| See 'cause you’ve never been the same as anyone else
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| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| You’ll live and you’ll learn
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| See you’ll never conclude with anyone else
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| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| If I had everything, everything
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| I could change anything
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| If I changed anything, I mean anything
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| I would change everything, oh yeah
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| Dark boy, don’t you cry
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| There’s too much life left in those eyes
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| Don’t you let that face go waterfall
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| Don’t you learn to love your scars and all
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| Dark boy, don’t you die, they’re just human, let them lie
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| You just know your world and speak your truth
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| Let them come to you, for your love and your heart
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| See 'cause you’ve never been the same as anyone else
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| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| This is your court, there are no laws
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| See you’ll never conclude with anyone else
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| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| If I had everything, everything
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| I could change anything, I could change anything
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| If I changed anything, I mean anything
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| I would change everything, oh yeah
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| When the media slings mud, we use it to build huts
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| Irrefutable facts, merciful, beautiful black
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| Beloved brother, you fail to embarrass him, harassin' him
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| To my life, your life pales in comparison
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| So go write whatever blog, messiness is not ever the god
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| Do what’s necessary, I’m never worried
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| Listen vultures, I’ve been shackled by Western culture
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| You convinced most of my people to live off emotion
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| That’s why we competin'
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| Death by the chrome barrel, forgot the secrets
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| My Kilimanjaro bone marrow’s the deepest
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| You can peep at the comments, but don’t fall for that
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| We want freedom, I’m a scholar, an almanac
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| People do anything to be involved in everything
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| Inclusion is a hell of a drug
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| Some people have everything they probably ever wanted in life
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| And never have enough
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| If I had everything, everything
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| I could change anything
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| If I changed anything, I mean anything
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| I would change everything, oh yeah
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| From the birth of a child, the world is foul
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| Excursions of a searchin' child
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| Should learn to take nothin' personal
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| A parent hates to watch his baby’s face
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| Takin' his first immunization shots, but this is great
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| The child’s introduction to suffering and pain
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| Understands without words
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| Nothin' is explained or rushed to the brain
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| Lookin' up at his parents' face
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| Like, «I thought you would protect me from this scary place?»
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| «Why'd you let them inject me?»
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| «Who's gonna know how these side effects is gonna affect me?»
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| Who knew I would grow to meet presidents that respect me?
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| If Starbucks is bought by Nestlé, please don’t arrest me
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| I need to use your restroom and I ain’t buy no espresso
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| Soon enough, assume the cuffs, the position
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| Not new to us, since back on the bus sittin'
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| Said «Screw that bus!" — boycotted that bus outta business
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| The future’s us, yet every citizen’s in prison
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| If I had everything, everything
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| I could change anything
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| If I changed anything, I mean anything
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| I would change everything, oh yeah
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| Watch me as I walk through the folly, golly, New York to Saudi
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| In Italy, I’m Eduardo Wiccari
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| But Nasty the hustler, nasty like mustard gas, sulfur
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| And I could sell Alaska to Russia, no pressure
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| My first house, 11,000-square-feet mansion
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| It was a haunted by dead rich whites
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| Mad a nigga bought his crib to hang up pictures of black Christ
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| Circular driveways, black cars and black ice
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| My second house, still in my twenties, illin' with money
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| Chilled through my spine, spillin' wine, it’s funny
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| Did good for a staircase loiterer, euphoria
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| What you saw when you seen a teen turn to a warrior
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| Did every Fourth of July, bustin' in the sky
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| It was important to a guy who was mob-minded
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| Future Murcielago driver 'til Lambos got average on me
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| I started likin' the look like I ain’t had no money
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| Yellow taxi seats over Maybach seats
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| Just to remind me, just to inspire me
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| To stay focused, it’s a real sick society
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| Just 'cause I got your support don’t mean you’re buyin' me
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| I’m buyin' back the land owned by the slave masters
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| Where my ancestors lived, just to say a rapper
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| Made a change; | 
| the pants-sagger put plans in action
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| 'Til they claim the Pan-African made it happen
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| You’ll live and you’ll learn
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| See 'cause you’ve never been the same anyone else
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| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| You’ll live and you’ll learn
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| See you’ll never conclude with anyone else
 | 
| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| If I had everything, everything
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| I could change anything
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| If I changed anything, I mean anything
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| I would change everything, oh yeah
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| Dark boy, don’t you cry, there’s too much life left in those eyes
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| Don’t you let that face go waterfall
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| Don’t you learn to love your scars and all
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| Dark boy, don’t you die
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| They’re just human, let them lie
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| You just know your world and speak your truth
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| And let them come to you
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| For your love and your heart
 | 
| See 'cause you’ve never been the same as anyone else
 | 
| Don’t think the same as everyone else
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| This is your court, there are no laws
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| See you’ll never conclude with anyone else
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| Don’t think the same as everyone else |