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Riding across the land - kicking up s...The sun is beating down...The air is gettin' hot - the beer is getting fla...girl - I ran into a guy ...Four days on the run and that he's d...The brew was in my hand...He was quick on the draw - I thought I'...He put the gun to my head and ...We stepped into the wind - he had a gun..."Now I got the gun - you got the brew ...You can get me to the border ...The sheriff's after me ...So I'm on the run - the cop's got my gun ...The King Adrock - that ...And I know the fly spot where they got the champagne." ... rode for six hours the we hit the spot ...The beat was a bumping and the girlies was hot ...We took the empty spot next to him at the bar ...The kid said, "Get read...Pulled out the jammy - aimed it at the sky ...t up and people hit the floor ...o kids that ran for the door ...So I grabbed the piano player and I punched him in the face ...The piano player's out - the music stopped ...Mike D. grabbed the money - M.C.A. snatched the gold

Riding across the land - kicking up s...The sun is beating down...The air is gettin' hot - the beer is getting fla...girl - I ran into a guy ...Four days on the run and that he's d...The brew was in my hand...He was quick on the draw - I thought I'...He put the gun to my head and ...We stepped into the wind - he had a gun..."Now I got the gun - you got the brew ...You can get me to the border ...The sheriff's after me ...So I'm on the run - the cop's got my gun ...The King Adrock - that ...And I know the fly spot where they got the champagne." ... rode for six hours the we hit the spot ...The beat was a bumping and the girlies was hot ...We took the empty spot next to him at the bar ...The kid said, "Get read...Pulled out the jammy - aimed it at the sky ...t up and people hit the floor ...o kids that ran for the door ...So I grabbed the piano player and I punched him in the face ...The piano player's out - the music stopped ...Mike D. grabbed the money - M.C.A. snatched the gold

keep the loot in Iraq, ... Iraq, see the world, the world, see Iraq ... jake hit the strip, now police t... my team break border and court order ...s in black ??, left the scene rowdy ... keep remedy for the poison of my enemie...aw and remy, Jack D the allizy, yo the motif ...ur money well, help the crack sale ... it all back, smoke the black, hold the gat ...[Musolini?] The streets got me thin... stashing, the ?? with a passion ... to make it happen, the block steaming ... and 12 k the cops scheming ... what i'm saying on the block all day ...re, now I know it's the way ... on the wood set ...le excel, it's like the double-fell ... drawn into the streets young ... it fingers the trigger, change you...k-addicted fiend to the crack ...ing like a snake in the grass ... my team play the game so we can win ... we can breath like the wind ... yo, the main vic, plotting ... let the dubs spark, now we ...rs keeper, throw on the world in a sleeper ... the grim reaper, so muc... the word def, stamp tha... thug blood, the same blood, thicker... CNN history, by the powers of God,