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  Blackhand Ent.
  Roc-a-Fella Records
  In association with the streets
  The Black Gangster
  In conjunction
  With everything official
  Yeah
    I ride throught the ghetto windows down halfway
  Halfway out of my mind music on 9, blasting Donny Hathaway
  Me and my niggas spending half the day
  Plotting, how we gon get this math with out getting balst away
  I wake up to the same problems after today
  Life is harsh, niggas gotta ?
  Right from the start they place me in the ghetto tender age of nine
  I tend to mine and to surrender to crime
  Wouldnt wish this on nobody like the end of like mine
  Ever since i was quite young a nigga been in divine
  Had to scratch for every plaque, rap aint even all its cracked up to be
  Niggas dont stack up to me
  Had to hustle in a world of trouble
  trapped in, clostrophobic the only way out was rapping
  America dont understand it, the demographics i tapped in
  I'm the truest nigga to do this nigga and anything else is foolish
  Like those who stay high, under God's grey skies
  My lyrics is like Bible, made to save lives
  In the midst of all your misery nigga, stay fly
  Never let em see you frown, even smile when you down
  Shit, i floss on my off-days fuck what they all say
  Niggas cant stop me like rumors, i'm too strong
  All-day
  Socks explode and sweatpants pockets is bulging
  Holding it down on the corner with my glock holding
  My spot is golden, drop the price on the coke and
  Drove the competition out and let the dough flow in
  The cops is closing in, i can do the time
  But whats really on my mine, is there's no hoes in the pen
  I play the low and try and make it hard to find me
  Feds still tryna build a case since '93
  I told them, i'm retired but they like whatever
  You know them pigs dont wanna see you get your life together
    [Chorus:]
  I'm stuck in this life forever
  The more things change the more they stay the same
  Who am i to change the game?
  You gotta move quick like her-o-in and dope can
  The blocks hotter than its ever been
    Once again
  Hold the gun at eye level, i aint afraid of conflict
  I let the nine rip, nigga say "hi" to the devil
  I blind with the bezel, i'm in line with the ghetto
  What yall nigga afraid of my mind or the metal
  Niggas tryna subtract my life, my mathematics is precise
  I carry the nine, so fucking with me just aint the answer
  I cant lose when i was young i was like Fresh
  Poppa raised me to chess moves
  And though your gone i'm not bitter you left me prepared
  We got divided by the years, but i got it from here
  Dont sweat that, sounds bump from Marcy to Lefrak
  To that pocket in DC where my man caught his death at
  Over my years i've seen Rooks get tooken by the Knight
  Lose they Crown by tryna defend a Queen
  Checkmate, in 4 moves the Bobby Fischer of rap
  ??? in a time where we all move
  Lets face it either your dough chasin, or basing
  Lacing, cops got your face sprung like mason
  Careful, any infultration i'm leaving niggas
  Leaving more than just information
    [Chorus]
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  Real shit
  The Black Gangsta
  Blackhand Ent.
  Roc a Fella
  Never interrupt this thing of ours
  The Black Ganagsa
  Jigga
  Hova
  Roll with me