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[projector clicking]
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[bell dings]
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[pastor humming]
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[slow jazz music]
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Take the dice and roll your life.
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[thunder rumbling]
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Seven. See, I would've did that to you.
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Seven.
[snaps fingers]
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Bought you, I would've bought you five Black and Milds.
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Aw, come on, poop butt.
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Existence is complex,
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and the pieces are held in place by ancient forces.
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They're the gods of our fathers,
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and the gods that crossed the graveyard in the ocean
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to the sorrow lands of North America in the holds of ships.
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The children of the sun,
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just trying to get by.
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They have stacked centuries,
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one atop the other,
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just trying to get to the morning.
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They are elemental.
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Close to the beginning of the beginning of the beginning,
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and the answer, in the end.
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[razor buzzing]
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Man, it was beautiful, man.
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It was money. You get money in your sleep.
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I witnessed $3.5 million.
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I slept on that, between the box spring and the mattress.
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Money came and went, but I'm still alive and I'm still free.
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Choose three stars.
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But you know how things change, though.
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[sniffs]
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Yeah.
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[big band music]
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The American dream, the American dream,
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the American dream, the American dream,
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the American dream, the American dream, the American dream.
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[sniffs]
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Yep.
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[big band music]
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And I grew up without that.
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I had to make my way to where I felt that I was living it.
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[man speaking over loudspeaker]
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The children of the sun will find the path to the future,
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if they have to build it themselves.
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They are builders.
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Ask them what happened in Rosewood.
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Ask them what happened
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in the sorrow land after Reconstruction.
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Welcome to the game.
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[street bustling]
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[men clamoring]
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Lot of people, ain't nobody seen her fall.
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What happened?
Aw, you good.
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Ain't no niggas out here
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having no drug king pen organizations no more,
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for real, in the town.
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And there's a lot of niggas who solo-hustling.
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And then you just got a lotta, you might find some niggas
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playing with some pounds or something,
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but, some big, heavy, dope?
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Hell, niggas ain't got no dope.
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It's a game of runs.
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You can have a good run, you can have a bad run.
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Feel me? Like, a motherfucker tell me I'm materialistic.
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I don't care.
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I don't come outside every single day
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and risk my life and freedom to live like a regular person.
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I risk my life and freedom every day hustling
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for material shit.
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Risk getting fucked up every day to
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drive a Honda and wear Shaqs, like, "Nah."
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At first it was a means of survival.
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It's just the only thing I knew.
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Then it started being a way of me to get ahead.
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And it's like, shit, man, I don't know.
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Now it's just a lifestyle.
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The black market, the underground,
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where the world is a dance floor.
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New steps are constantly emerging,
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and they keep changing.
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Game God, born on dreams tied to Plymouth Rock,
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is a hobble god, written on the back of a lie.
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Capitalism, the author of fences and forks,
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has found a home in the sorrow land,
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where everything is for sale
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by people who sold those who ate with their fingers forks
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and civilization, on a margin that came with fences
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on land stewarded by humans, but owned by Earth herself,
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who never signed a deed.
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Now, Game God, some people call her hustle, work,
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or the business, but she is properly known as the Game God,
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and should not be confused with her older sister, Luck,
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who is noted for not loving anybody.
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Game God is the patron of souls
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on the path trying to make something out of nothing
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in a world where capitalism sets the tables,
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and treats the world as a marketplace.
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Now, capitalism is a clever thief.
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It offers idols, shiny things,
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that are only worth
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exactly what you are willing to pay for them.
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You see, value, like language,
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is an agreement.
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Both concepts are tricky and vague,
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like erecting fences on land you don't own,
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but made yours by language written that says it's yours
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in law and deed made up by you.
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It fucked me up, how much I believed in God.
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You know what I mean? It fucked up my thought processing.
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Once I believed everything that they told me,
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like, all right, you feel me?
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I just gotta be fair,
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and can't none of you niggas fuck with me.
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None of you niggas can't kill me.
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Ain't a nigga walking could kill me.
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I knew this shit when I was 16 or something,
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so I never was, I've always walked around kinda fearless,
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'cause it's like, I believe in that, only God can kill you.
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Man, I gotta like you, like, we know. You feel me?
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My best friend, your cousin,
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man, they've been shot in the head and walked off.
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Got hit in the leg, and it was time.
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Tricky and vague,
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like selling a man,
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a woman, a child,
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written on cotton,
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sealed with the blood of millions of people.
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Sold! American.
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[inmates clamoring]
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[jail cell doors slamming]
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[inmates clamoring]
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How I look at it
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is the same way a farmer would look at his cows,
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herd them from one spot to another.
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Government, or the state, or whomever,
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they do the same thing with us.
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They warehouse us in all these different prisons.
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They moved us from buildings to the chow hall, in line.
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A lot of people died in here.
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Look at how they got us.
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Man, I've been down, I'm going on 26 years in November.
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I'm doing 27 years, and I've been in here 21 years.
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Well, a couple of friends of mine
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have gone out and killed theyself.
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Seen people get stabbed out on the yard and die.
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It takes a strong mind to survive in prison.
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One is considered a slave
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when they can take your property,
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they can take the right to your name,
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they can take the right to everything that you acquire,
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all of your intellectual ideas.
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This is done through the lack of knowledge of ourself
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in equity, treaty, trust,
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and the knowledge of self and who we are,
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and what our ancestors have done, through the Constitution
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and through the Articles of Confederation.
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King David, his throne,
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he almost messed up with God because of Bathsheba.
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And his punishment for adultery
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was the first baby that he had with Bathsheba,
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when he was sneaking off with her,
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sent her husband to get killed on the front line,
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King David did that.
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Their first child died.
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Bathsheba had that good-good, that WAP.
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She had WAP.
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She had WAP,
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and she got King David all the way out of pocket!
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That's power.
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With God!
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That's power.
So don't tell me
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about the power of pussy.
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Yeah, San Francisco's gonna be cold.
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I'm gonna be ready for it.
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Jack Frost won't be nipping at my ass.
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I just wanted to get away from the pimping so bad.
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I got beat up, and all this stuff happened,
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so it was a wrap.
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I went to the Nation of Islam.
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I learned a lot from Islam,
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but I took it and mixed it with the game,
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and baby, that's where you got hustle mom,
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and that's when I became a madam.
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And I had my escort service.
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And wasn't nobody fuckin' with me, either,
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'cause I was strapped.
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Be shady? Yeah, you gonna feel this .380.
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[engine revving]
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I took some little shots or whatever. It's nothing.
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It's just like, I know niggas out there hatin', though.
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Y'all hate to see a nigga on top of his shit,
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doing his thing, you know what I mean, having it.
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It's all good, though.
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I'm walking with them angels, nigga.
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And I'm gonna stay on top, nigga,
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'cause them angels gonna keep on floating me
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outta all situations. [chuckles]
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Y'all niggas can't do nothing to me.
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All you could do is hurt me a little bit.
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[siren wailing]
[thunder rumbling]
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The American dream, the American dream,
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the American dream, the American dream, the American dream,
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the American dream, the American dream.
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♪ Come on ♪
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♪ More lies to loan ♪
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♪ And this old world ♪
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♪ Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
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♪ Is not my home ♪
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♪ I ain't gonna let this ♪
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♪ Life worry me ♪
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♪ Said I ain't gonna let ♪
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♪ This life worry me, no ♪
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Black market is a business,
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just like any other table, set by capitalism.
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And some bigger than others,
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but everybody buying and selling
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in a land where everything is commodified.
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Now, Game God turns on her own Kemetic law.
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She can be fickle. She wants devotees.
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She rarely trifles with those who dib and dab,
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but those who come to play,
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they know her well.
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She's got a long memory,
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and a sense of justice that you may not appreciate,
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and she holds the keys
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to destiny and fate.
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Set the table for Game.
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Capitalism made black market the business.
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Game comes from the place
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they shoot your seed down in the street,
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then write you a check.
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They stand their ground, then write you a check.
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From where the government paid Confederates
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for slaves lost in the Civil War.
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Game God came into being on a southern shore
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where odds needed evening.
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She set out immediately to find hiding places
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for the gods that crossed the ocean,
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and she became guardian to those stolen,
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violated, treated as property.
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Whoever one seeks a way out the noway,
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Game God attends those prayers.
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The writers of rules, they stay busy
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trying to ensure that they are the only winners.
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It's getting harder to even the odds
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in a game where the board keeps getting rewritten.
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You learn to use the master's tools at your own peril.
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♪ This old world, this old world ♪
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♪ Is not my, not my home ♪
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So, the message for the world,
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rather, the question.
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[water splashing]
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'Cause I've lost everything that I've earned twice.
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I don't wanna lose it again.
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Really, my grandfather pulled me in.
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So, my grandfather, he used to sell dope.
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He was the one that taught me how to cook it,
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how to cut it, how to weigh it, how to sell it.
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It went for me selling dope full time
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to me just straight pimping full time,
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and I was like, "Hey."
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I fought a life sentence.
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I fought 72 years to life,
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and I ended up getting eight years.
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I've been to every prison.
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I've been to, started off in Chowchilla,
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I've been to Folsom, and I've been to CIW.
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And then it was a lotta people
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that was committing suicide while I was there.
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So I thought about that too. It kinda felt a little haunted.
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I was at one prison for maybe only even a year,
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and I probably seen eight people
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commit suicide within a year.
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I want for my kids everything I never had.
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I love you. I'm there for you, any choice that you make.
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I want you to feel comfortable coming to me
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and talking to me about any and everything.
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I want them to have stability,
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I want them to have a education,
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and I want what they want for theyselves.
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Because it's only two end routes,
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and I've been there before.
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I've been in both places.
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I haven't been dead, but I've been close to it.
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How long do you think gods cry?
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And if the game is fatally flawed,
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and there is no way out,
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how long before we clear the board altogether?
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[laughs]
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[pastor humming]
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The American dream, the American dream,
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the American dream, the American dream, the American dream,
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the American dream, the American dream.
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