Tonart: B minor•
Verse 1
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Around my way
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Around my way
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All the corners filled
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All the streets are filled with pain
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Around my way
Verse 2
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Around my way
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All the corners filled with sorrow
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All the streets are filled with pain
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Around my way
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Verse 3
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People let me paint a picture,
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you know I ain't a Christian
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I ain't a Muslim, ain't a Jew,
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I speak to God directly,
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I know my God respect me
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'Cause he let me breathe his air
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and he really blessed me
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I ain't knocking you but I
don't fuck with hospitals
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truly knowing Jesus like apostles do
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Return like the prodigal son
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Stay away from Him, like Abraham,
Verse 4
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Even when you took my man Chaka
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You gave the hood a modern day
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martyr in Brother Amadou
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I'm on the block, I'm tracing your footsteps,
I keep the faith in you
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Your love, plus hard work and ambi
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tion, we gonna make it through
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My songs is psalms I'm spir
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This is for my soldier niggaz looking
in the mirror who
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Sitting home scratching
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off serials eating cereal
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The way we find a way to survive,
Verse 5
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We got mice in the crib and
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roaches in the toasters
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bread in the oven by the roaster
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We be takin' gypsy cabs and
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They be laced with shitty swag and it
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really get me mad
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The way we be saluting flags,
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wrapping them around our heads
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When niggaz ain't become
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American till 9 11
Feeling like you gotta
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When the reverend looking like a pimp
And the pimp look like the
Verse 6
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Around my way
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Around my way
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All the corners filled
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All the streets are filled with pain
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Around my way
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Verse 7
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These conditions make us strong
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And we create our own businesses
so later on
Our children have things in their
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name that they can say their own
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freestyle become your fa vorite song
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No place like home
"What about your neighbors?"
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Till you spill your guys like you a Garcia Vega
Verse 8
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We roll blunts not the papers
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Cop the greatest take it coast to coast
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L.A. to Chicago like smooth operators
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Cop the dro and cop the blacks
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Cop the four, cock it back
Drop the flow,
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rock a hat on top a stocking cap
Verse 9
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Be a doctor or a lawyer or make your
Momma a promise that
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You'll finish school but when you got a
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dream you gotta follow that
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And make sure when you make it out
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the hood you always holler back
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Think about what you got from that and
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always put your dollars back
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On top of that, this is a legacy
and we a part of that
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The hood is where my heart is at,
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Verse 10
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Around my way
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All the corners filled with sorrow
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All the streets are filled with hate
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Around my
Verse 11
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Around my way
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All the corners filled
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All the streets are filled with pain
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Around my
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