Tonart: D minor
Verse 1
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Walking into some Los
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Angeles neighborhoods
these days
is like walking into a police state.
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at least four people have died
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in gang -related violence.
Nearly a hundred times that many have died
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in the past year.
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Em
And more than half the victims
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were innocent bystanders.
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Gangs have existed in Los
Angeles for generations
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an d have traditionally fought and died
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to exert their control over
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But today, their bloody war
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is for control of a multi -million
dollar market.
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L .A.'s so -called homeboys
have become entrepreneurs
And despite an all -out effort to stop them,
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business is booming. Okay,
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okay! Okay! Okay! That's not necessary, man. Money to talk.
And the guy's making way
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too. That's him.
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Except for he doesn't have
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his hat with him.
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Hustlin', that's what a youngster
Rhymin', when I was younger had problems
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probably stole from you
Em
Motivation, flowin' through my bloody,
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yeah all in my veins
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Props to the homies on the block
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stackin' nine -steppin' shots
Cause yeah,
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we came up the same
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Rhymin', that was a clique
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that used to be on the streets
Nowadays locked up,
stronger than dope,
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unfortunately, some are deceased
right out of California,
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homicide, I ain't worried about it
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Now the homies keep it the same
Laughin' at these
on my own side
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Talkin' shit, jealous of the gang
Em
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Hey, they comin' off,
chasin' forms
Nowadays, just part of the norm
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Keep heavy thunder just for the storm
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Investigation over the years
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Even got people watchin' the G
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Worse than these motherfuckin' rappers
in the gang
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Year after year, coppin' give me sickness
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That's what I was born with,
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hard with, scorned with
Wouldn't let me go home for weeks
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Just imagine my mother stormin'
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Addiction, that goes for makin'
that paper and rappin'
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Motivation for makin' it happen
Em
I run from my dad and his son
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Police estimate that there are now
as many as 600 street gangs
in Los Angeles County
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and 70 ,000 gang members.
take them to jail for anything
and everything we can.
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Prevents that particular guy
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from get ting into anything and it kind of
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keeps other guys off the street for a while
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But never would I say
How many homeboys
have been killed
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in the last year or so?
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Em
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Less than a year, like five? Criminals
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That's what I was labeled
at the age of twelve
Violent, used to fight,
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cuss, swing, and rebel
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Em
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that's the type of behavior to slay
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Leaving my own mother dismayed,
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al ways in trouble till her liberty paid
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Hustling, making paper
from flipping whatever
Making a cheddar in any weather
A hustler like me be doing it better,
The hustle continues,
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nowadays it's just Fifth Avenues
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Different strains all on the menu,
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a criminal known for stack
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Damn bitch, that's all I
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feel in my heart and soul
Hot tempered till my heart too cold
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Took my situation then turned it to gold
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Bang, that's what the
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yesterly do in the streets
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Top of my neighborhood bangers
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Real gun, just what you do with a piece
Em
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Shag, learned to poop them 211s
Graduated from minor crimes like beer
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Runs from 7 -11s to makin' them Gs
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To makin' them raps, to makin' them Gs
To makin' them beats,
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used to be another number in the system
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Now moving numbers like each release
What's the youngest person
to get killed from your
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neighborhood?
Munchie? Yeah.
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F#m
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Did get killed up by a shower?
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Where were you when he got shot?
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Where were you when he got shot?
He was in the garage.
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Grimes,
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whose street name is Grime,
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joined a gang when he was 12 years old.
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Now, at age 20, he's in jail.
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Is it easy to pull the trigger
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on somebody?
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Loyal, a criminal's known to
stay true to the rules
Even if I'm in a losing battle,
I'ma ride to the death
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And it ain't with my troops
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Until my death, I'ma remain a survivor
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Only if you knew what I've been through
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Walk in my shoes till then you
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Bones, yeah they gonna keep coming
stuck in the shadows
Obviously I'm winning
cause I'm grinning
While I'm sitting in these lanes
Keep running cause they losing
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the battle
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Triumph, I'm tossed with my hands
lifted high cause I made it
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Others abated, get lyrically faded
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Step in the ring with the king,
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get slayed quick
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Warrior, you see the throne,
yeah you see the crown
L .A. dodging fitted,
posted up in the west
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Ain't no motherfucking peasants
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Em
Silence, opposition all get
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mighty quiet when I spit it
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Em
Criminal killer,
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never wanna give a shit
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Murder you, end all your affiliates
Em
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Big data, they say they wanna get me
Dm
But they meet my beretta,
Criminals that go get her,
run up on me quick
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Put ten through your sweater
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Magic, that's what I'm tryna be
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So I'm making all this music,
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three motherfucking CDs
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Em
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talking about a lot of people
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in the running around out there with
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sophisticated weapons
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that provide security
and protection for the money
and the narcotics
that's out there in the street.
I'm talking about exporting this trafficking,
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not just throughout L .A. County
or even Southern California,
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but all over the western half of the country.
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I'm talking about launder
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investing it in legitimate business
to cover up the fact that it's
been obtained illicitly.
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And moving tons of cocaine.
If that's not organized crime,
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then I'm not a cop.
like any other growing business,
the gangs are now searching
for new market.
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Letting the gangs get your own business.
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