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They got my back to the wall ...That was then, this is n...When half the world is sayin "Fuc...The other half will fea...Shit both halves will make one whole ...y hear me, but fuck that ...On any ass coward that feelin that I can't get down ...I'm a nightmare, the nigga that's always right ther... cock back, and pop that ...And guaranteed that I dropped that ...You can't top that ...Fuck the past ...Fuck the present ...I'm the future in the flesh ...I'm the chrome before the storm ...I'm the buzz before the storm ...I'm the screech before the crash ...I'm the click before the blast ...I'm the rise before the fall ...I'm the loss before the gain ...'cause we the future of this game...Either roll with us or you gettin rolle...Evacuate the buildin, save all the women and children ...u grimmy niggaz get the fuck from round us ...y'all the same cock-housers from the blocks to gouchers ...Celebratin is the the feelin when I c... him brick style in the ceilin of an abando...? y'all got to, I'm the voice of theory ...Spillin blood for the dead, God bless the...nd look straight to the heavens so I know that He hear me ... shit fluxuate from the drop seven, to the wide bodied eight ... on in corner, with the sweeper I let the body gate ... they saw me looked the other way and tried...e, when I cut hoes, the fuckin blood flows ...That was bustin niggaz w...'m walkin dead with the infared by my side ...ayin with spades is the plan ...ut can't strap with the flow ...down for mine, with the crime ...se I could, go with that mob that goes out to rob ...That mad scheme to get cream without the job ...d melt away, 'cause the pain is too much to...Let the dead be dark while the Dark is here

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ll, she will, 97 to the hill ...p, connect thinking that we wired up, ...Kid it's the halves, you ain't k...That's why niggas can't ...Keep the world in fits, my c...and L, why'all work the hour ...You all dirty, like the clique don't take s...'s more to get, hit the fuck up, taking pow... point-blank end of the story ...on benches, hopping the fences ... 'em, lace 'em, let the chef bake 'em, ...em, wonder where we make 'em ...e, and break 'em on the street corner ...e don't run deep on us ...Peep the third floor shade that never rises ...For jake, our whole weight, plus gat an...to my Nike's now we the livest