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Vic Mensa Flexes In 15-Minute Freestyle on Sway In The Morning | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 25, 2023
Vic Mensa elevates the bar in his latest Sway In The Morning freestyle and introduces Kxng Moosa.
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Vic Mensa Spazzes In 15-Minute Freestyle on Sway In The Morning | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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schools was behind he was in a prison
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with no way of getting out physically
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everything he did he traveled mentally
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he saw it mentally that mental
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discipline is a word that Vic used
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earlier it's important to practice that
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mental discipline be the master of your
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fate right through your mindset facts
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this is how this all manifested he
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didn't know me when he was watching j.u
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ice on the Wake Up Show right or whoever
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yes you know and but he probably
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imagined one day I'm gonna be in that
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chair and he been in this chair a
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multitude of times right and so to the
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people tuned in and listening this is
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these are the gems these are the lessons
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we hope stick with you you know and no
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matter where you travel or where you go
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or what you experienced as we've seen
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Musa has experienced a lot and Vic has
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experienced a lot
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when you come to the Valley of the
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hyenas
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you didn't come up here just to talk
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your story not at all not at all
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come on man something I promise you I'm
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here better than ever okay
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okay it's not like the controversy ain't
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hurt me but I I'm back in the game like
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James Worthy
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[Music]
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to be on the Sway in the Morning Show
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every time man
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eat young introspective Revelations
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[Music]
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generation
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and Lauryn Hill we
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it's education we lost body mass due to
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mass incarceration I'm open-hearted like
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a cardiac operation diss me I write a
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dissertation I don't need no Jerry I've
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been on trial for my tribulations
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identify chapter 11 when bankrupt [ __ ]
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was hard I let it drive me now I'm back
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up suburban homes chauffeurs and black
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trucks you see us in a ladder don't
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cross that is bad luck [ __ ] with me yay
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Through the Wire cause I crashed out
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publicly but I survived cause I was
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strapped up I dealt with murders on my
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head Bounty situations County visitation
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psych War impatient Suicidal Thoughts
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was just my imagination I felt like
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David Ruffin battling Temptations I
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found solace through my meditation I
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started balling serving Ace of cannabis
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to the cancer patients it's kind of
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crazy when you put it together a ball
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and cancer how can I be this clever my
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aunt got a skin tumor from lightening
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cream she fighting them demons I'm just
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writing my grievance when a Hennessy XO
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and my belly can't help me I just need
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to get away and write for the weekend
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they we wrote history put whiteness to
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Egypt erased our ethnicities and stifled
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our freedoms really lynching me made
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[ __ ] hate [ __ ] till Infinity that's
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even if you making eight figures a
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figure eight a figure Escape my wrist to
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Crystal Lake I fell victim to addictions
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in my mental state stupid [ __ ] like this
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and Drake that was a big mistake but
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when you raised in a cage all you know
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is MMA a discardy this act this triple X
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it was disrespect it made the fans
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disinvest I lost M's like a Dow Jones
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regression but every L taught me in a
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valuable lesson I'm back now with
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intention help make Musa a free man he
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was a child in detention a gang in the
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field trying to drill like yoshima suit
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from Tech and they spin around with a
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weapon in a shot and criticize how we
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live and die till we eat each other
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alive cause they better slides just
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think of Judas in a black Messiah how
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the FBI murder Malcolm using Shooters in
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the noi [ __ ] Playboy bunnies I'm
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re-energized now she wanna come home
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with me I ain't carrying Giles doing
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wealthy and I'm well and out I don't
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need to ask Miss I need the address to
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send these pounds I lost 20 P's at UPS
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yeah I'm on the TV screens and I'm
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thinking about the movies next rappers
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talk foul in them Subs online and then
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they'd be surprised when my team starts
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shooting text Victor album Now meant
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Samantha moves the next spit too sick to
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kill with some Mucinex I embrace [ __ ]
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with open arms I put Faith in them they
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turn around and nail me to the crucifix
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I resurrected though I'm truly blessed I
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found new success I'm using my music
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checks to invest now I own my own
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businesses I let my light shine and make
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green that's photosynthesis
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nah I'm still going
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I'm still going it's cool that's that
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photo sentences
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yeah yeah
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[Music]
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big missa Musa Sway in the Morning
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Valley of the hyenas shade four five I
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let my light shine made green
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photosynthesis I know that oh so
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sensitive I don't even need a pill on
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the real because the flow's so Limitless
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I'm on some Bradley Cooper [ __ ] I beat
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the mushroom case and now I'm back on
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their head that's a Koopa kick with
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Mario and alibario that cartel connects
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Benicio del Toro cicadio I almost set
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adios to audio got addicted to sniffing
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cause I seen that as a snotty nose huh
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listen to me sway
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that's what I seen as a snotty nose she
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OD'd and her body froze they banging the
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six in my city grown men killing
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five-year-olds me I took the higher Road
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I'm just the Immigrant in the foreign
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I'm bumping Fabio swear you came to my
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country you've been a gunner yo you seen
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the way the mothers are struggling in my
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father's home no clean water some green
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coming out the spokes I spread my heart
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in these bars I don't make art to choke
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I was a teen trying to be dope my mentor
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from high school is now feeding for a
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rock to smoke so you think for me
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succeeding is optional pops came from
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poverty did the impossible I stopped
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blaming the industry cause the Enemy
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Inside the mirror that's the only thing
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stopping you no red octagon that's just
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the optical they incarcerate our profits
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cause it's profitable that's why I'm
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popping and [ __ ] this for the jit
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without the pot to piss in North Papa to
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pick him up from school so they popping
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tools leaving Copper's Clues on the gram
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like detectives ain't watching their
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moves leaving confessions in popular
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tunes and it's cracking on the tube so
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that's the music that we rock it to you
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just a product to a label so they Market
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you and persecute you like prize Well
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when it's time to prosecute
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you see the things we experience in our
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world man that we think are normal
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it's abnormal Musa was sentenced to 25
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years in prison as a 14 year old child
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that's an abnormal normality but what we
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preaching is that
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you put your faith into this reality
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we can recreate this [ __ ] in an instant
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you know what I mean my my mind starts
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to think oh my mind flows to the night
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then my [ __ ] Jordan day was slaying in
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a shootout with his brother in his
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mother's house the way we raise
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Shakespeare couldn't create the stage a
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million dollars down the drain and I
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couldn't wash away this pain that's why
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I take a private plane out to Punta Cana
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I'm in a puta like a monster a
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chupacabra the shoes was proud of the
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suit buy a new designer flew by in a
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green spaceship Futurama a meditative
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like the Dalai Lama she was a one-night
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stand somehow she won a night in shining
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armor I need a pen to rewrite my karma I
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got a Lemon Squeeze if [ __ ] think it's
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sweet that's an Arnold Palmer I'm over
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the drama like when Uzi was out his deal
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I'm in a black noun people have positive
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feel just by my background I survived
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the environments y'all would have
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drowned in like a fish in the water with
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gills suicides in the field we was
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taught to do drills so we got sick in
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the brain from society's ills and we
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treat Beats by Dre like anxiety pills
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cause basically you take a plea when you
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sign into deals 25 the life of the later
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recruitment they consolidate my rights
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like they made a [ __ ] music they trying
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to dim my light like J dilla from lupus
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they murder Fred Hampton using traders
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in the movement I'm cognizant of culture
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vultures in his Helter Skelter I drop a
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deuce in a soda like it's Alka-Seltzer
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far from a saint I resonate with
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Franklin but I rather make the changes
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in the hood like Alton shelter I'm
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straddling the line between love and
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hate the street is just a circus so
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[ __ ] learn to jug away you gotta tuck
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a nine when you coming up in section 8.
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I never met Logan Paul I'm still yelling
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[ __ ] the Jake still dealing millions of
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dollars a dope legally the best kept
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secret I'm trapping with no secrecy I'm
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in a different way class [ __ ] can't
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compete with me starting fake ass beef
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with me I call it vegan meat I'm beyond
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it it's impossible so [ __ ] How Could
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You hoes hurt they be starting all that
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fake ass beef with me I call it vegan
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meat I'm beyond it it's impossible to
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make me bite never a bite to check my
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writing credits the judge caught me with
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a 40 Kyle I bet he wish she gave me life
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had me in a Cell doing calisthenics yet
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I prevailed cause my talent weathers
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every storm my back's strong you can see
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it in my deadly form I shine bright even
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when I got no necklace on and she gave
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me necklines so I call her stegosaurus
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yeah I had an article next I need a
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spreading forms I took my L's fell back
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and developed more fighting for my life
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I could have signed with Bellator but I
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signed a 360. I wish they were spending
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more [ __ ] it's all crazy I'm sicker than
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Wayne meets John Gacy look America I'm
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the monster the child made me I dipped
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to Africa like Daisy at the Chappelle
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show cause if I stayed in this hell a
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whole lot of gone crazy I gotta be
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victorious that's what my mom named me
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facing insurmountable odds I climb daily
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putting pen to paper trying to block out
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the haters act like it never happened
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like lights out in Vegas but the fact is
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sometimes we gotta fight to find
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greatness sins in my past is Multiplied
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now I'm famous they wanna know who I'm
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dating to drive engagement and click
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bait headlines out of my conversations
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it's outrageous
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you give me that next week
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we're just getting started I promise you
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swear you know it's movies
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[Music]
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[Music]
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had to go and get my dollars back but
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I'm back with a sense of urgency more
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than the sum of my mistakes but they
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advertise my adversity caught a case but
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I capitalized took it legal on a
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cannabis side started off with a stash
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then made it on the news Ryan burgundy
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County blues that was January 2022 I was
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sitting in a jail cell 12 on my heels
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like Jimmy Choo I just treated like an
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interlude fast forward 20 23 50 000
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people at the Black Star Line Festival
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was it 53 remember me not just for these
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words but for the way I impact the
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culture became a legend in Chicago for
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the giving back [ __ ] like Oprah I did a
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million in shoes that was like five
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minutes off of Old block I really took a
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message to the streets like Malcolm X on
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the Soap Box bulletproof vest on Word
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those shots on post no location in the
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moment cause that's how they smoke pop
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folks now got machine guns like Kelly
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they'll put you on Fox no mega Lane
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trying to go Pock I Don't Wanna Die
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Young cartoon gun cases there was both
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blocks knowing [ __ ] from my old block
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he was selling dope nice smoke rocks
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that's ironic I don't smoke but I buy
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chronic then sell it high that's
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hydroponic worry about a lot I'm Islamic
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I'm a Kingston I'm bumping chronics
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claw you are around with a rude boy I
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let a dove go today I lost my plug don't
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like true [ __ ] my sound wave cuts through
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noise my pen speaks straight to the
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souls of black folks like dude boy my
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instincts show True North deep inside of
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my inner conscience the key to life lies
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in abundance I was the future in the
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past like navedius in a dungeon the
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radius of the inner city multiplied by a
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big circumference show you how many O's
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I could cook up out of single onion
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chopping trees like Paul Bunyan overseas
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got abroad in London mention me put
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knots on the [ __ ] mouthpiece that's a
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sore subject tits all their shows put
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D's in the air like the your luggage
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still round with bro like three stacks
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near me and four brothers Still rhyme
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with you either loyal or not lean on the
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floor ain't pulling a block I made a
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better myself and I'm watching the money
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dunking like Jordan stuck I manifested a
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mansion out of a dream I had on the
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floor in a car your favorite artists I'm
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influenced a lot maybe that's why I'm
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doing it maybe the dream I'm really
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pursuing is something that's deeper the
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Music is More in our heart maybe it's
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touching the people and movement more to
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perform it on charts do say we pouring
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the Rocks I don't drink but I'm ordering
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shots on a jet with the boys from the
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Block you see we celebrate like
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birthdays cause I made the best at the
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worst days me rapping on swayers like
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Mahalia jack on a church stage this my
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Arena look John Cena I got models out of
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Willamina no surprise that I'm on point
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my sister used to be a ballerina my pops
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work for the state school I was selling
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fire trying to play cool she shot rack
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not the Middle East but the violence is
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like Beirut me I'm Langston when I paint
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cues what happens to a Dream Deferred
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I'm trapping selling peas or herb that
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yellow bag Tweety Bird and jealous man
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get paid in colleges and do no undergrad
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cause most of my professors was selling
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smack call it Breaking Bad my zone
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[ __ ] keep machete face wrapped in a
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Haitian flag you think it's a potato
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sack race by the way they chase a bag
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that bar was kind of cliche these rap
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[ __ ] frauds I call them deep fakes if
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it's beef Street sweep you're blocked
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that's the sweepstakes I saw you was
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plowed by GD rakes a center I just sat
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down with TD Jake stay with that Smith
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like I was Stephen A
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and I brought a shooter with me
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as I explained I brought a shooter with
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me hey King Musa was incarcerated at the
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age of 14. for 25 years we had him on a
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show back in 2019. 2020 I was able to
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play a role in bringing him home from
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prison and we got him here today yeah to
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do what he do do what he does speak his
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story tell his story tell his story
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I want to first uh
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shout out to Jesse man shout out to
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Jesse G man she uh she started all this
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without her there's no meat there's no
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this moment there's no Vic I don't know
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you meet Vic without her but look
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King in a thought think with vision it's
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a Shawshank Redemption a steel boy and I
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was still Born to Be spitting my granny
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called me Musa she knew something my
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mama did it treat it like I was dead had
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to be going off the sentence but Deepak
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and Tupac kept me warm with the distance
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got me closer to God than I ever came
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with religion happy 50th to Hip Hop but
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meet the new edition not Bivins but Mr
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Telephone Man when I was in prison look
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just 14 was facing 25 to life I copped
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to the 25 cause I was scared of getting
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like by 17 it's Menard they making 20
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knives a night or scratch came a thick
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little tick Tink was running for his
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life whoa It's So Much behind that bar
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behind the boss beating on my chest my
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first shows was on the yard it was me
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Louis Rock Solid Trio no one thought all
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eyes on Mac I'm trying to Hawk me down
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to God yeah that's how it is greatness
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gotta live now I'm here there's a
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child's prayer this ain't stopping here
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there's a deal
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Arsenio or Drake Hold On
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in there
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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just elevated his game oh to an Elite
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Class of MCS ooh I'm not even gonna talk
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to the Whack Him sees today because
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you don't even get the you ain't got to
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you can't even afford the admission to
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this Cipher that happened right here
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they ain't qualified only to the Real
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the true MCS I want you to go back and
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analyze everything that big Minister
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said wow that deep both rounds I want
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you to go back and analyze there wasn't
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a wasted syllable in anything that he
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said it wasn't a wasted bar somehow that
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man rhyme photosynthesis
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I've been trying to get people to do
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that for that okay
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I love my light shine to make green as
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photosynthesis
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all right uh stegosaurus I used to study
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prehistoric animals
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that was
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[Music]
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good
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you got to put him in the rankings now
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y'all you had that Freestyle right there
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if that ain't in your rankings your
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rankings don't mean nothing and they
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don't mean anything and I love the truth
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in it man was that an apology to Yadi
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and Drake and
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