Tonart: D major
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Verse 1
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It was back
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Back in 86 and I remember it so clear
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hip -hop graffiti came here
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Homies with spray cans
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were tearin' it up
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Now it's seven years later,
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still fuckin' it up
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You can find them at any bus stop
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They're lookin' for cops
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and when it's all clear
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They tag the bus windshield
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Smoothin' too fast, packin' a bus pass
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With paint on their hands,
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they walk away and laugh
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It's 3 a .m., but an artist never stops
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Creepin' through the city
and mobbin' the
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Sometimes they're in a posse,
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sometimes they roll alone
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Tagging freeway signs
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They're up 30 feet high
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with a pocket full of fat caps
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Hat to the back, supplies in a backpack
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They started their mission
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around a quarter till eleven
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Now with spray can in hand,
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they're going to the heavens
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negativity on the wall
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and they just can't wait
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Because they mobbin' 10D,
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well me and Streaks and Spraypaint
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The bus pulls up, at the stop you see smiles
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Cause they know that the tags'll
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run for miles and miles
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From city to city they collect much fame
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No one knows her face
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but everyone knows her name
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And if you know what I'm sayin',
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this song was written for you
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For you and your crew,
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and all your neighborhoods too
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You got police runnin' around,
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tryin' to keep you down and get involved
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But you give them a problem
they simply just can't solve
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They don't understand,
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y 'all, that it's a family thing
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And they don't understand, y 'all,
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that you're a deaf city king
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And true kings don't stop
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when they're on the attack
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He's gettin' up on the wall,
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his homies watchin' his back
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realize that graffiti and rap
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I'm both gonna stay in L
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Cause it's an art
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and it's part of our hip -hop lives
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So we say peace to the artists
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who fight to keep it alive
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You ask the mind artists,
yeah,
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but I don't use spray cans
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when we're in front of a mic stand
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It's raining on
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there's graffiti on the
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wall
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This problem,
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is getting serious
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It makes us delirious, and furious
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Suspicious and curious
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Crews today are insane and hard to explain
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but now you all wanna tag, bang
Back in the days,
artists used to compete
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But now if there's beef,
you leave them dead in the street
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Fourteen years old,
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sometimes they're even younger
come on,
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it's gotta make you wonder
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When will it stop and end,
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go back to art again
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Put down the gun, homie, pick up a pen
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Do you wanna be the reason
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that graffiti fell?
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It started in the heavens,
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don't let it go to hell
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It's raining today,
Outro 1
there's graffiti on the wall
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