| When I was small
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| We had nothing at all
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| We used to eat Grits, for dinner
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| It was pain
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| almost drive a man insane
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| what we could find for
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| to survive another day
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| but I said nah…
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| An old killa bee once hummed me a tune
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| Stay up at night, don’t sleep on ya moon
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| Four seeds in the bed, eight seeds in the room
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| Afternoon cartoon, we would fight for the spoon
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| Old Earth in the kitchen, yell «it's time to eat»
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| Across the foyer, ya hear the gather of stampeding feet
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| One pound box of sugar, and a stick of margarine
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| A hot pot of Grits got my family from starvin'
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| Loose with the welfare cheese, thick wit’the gravy
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| used to suck it, straight out the bottle as a baby
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| Steamy hot meal serve less than five minutes
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| Big silver pot, boilin’water, salt in it House full of brothers and sisters, the pop’s missin'
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| Pillsbury box on the stove in the kitchen
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| Young shorties in my hood started hustlin'
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| Packin’bags at the neighbourhood associate
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| Growin’up, not as fortunate to have that fly shit
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| I’m too young, no jobs’d hire me legit
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| You walkin’down the street with ya gun in ya hand
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| Drinkin, thinkin’of a masterplan
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| Your Old Earth can’t afford what ya friends got
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| So you roll up to the spot, with ya thing 'pon cock
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| And it seems worth the takin', stomach achin'
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| Morning star Reggie makin’go good with the Grits
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| Now let’s take it back for real
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| when we used to build at ghetto big wheels
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| with the shoppin’cart wheels, and wood to nail the seat on Girls skippin’rope in the street
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| the Summer heat, left the jelly prints stuck to they feet
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| Skelly chief, flippin’baseball cards for keeps
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| Momma said it’s gettin’late, and it’s time to come eat |