Holton Street<br />
Dean Street, click clack<br />
President, uh huh<br />
Nostril out, DP's<br />
Orange Al, RPG's<br />
T-Town, who wanna ride?<br />
Brooklyn, come on, come on<br />
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Sittin' in' the livin' room on the floor<br />
All the pain got me on some migraine shit<br />
But I'm gonna maintain<br />
Nigga got 2 or 3 dollars to my name<br />
And my homies in the same boat goin' through the same thing<br />
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Ready for a cake, better plot for the paper<br />
We been livin' in' the dark since April<br />
On the candle, gotta get a handle<br />
My homie got a 25 automatic added to the caper<br />
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Nigga get the phonebook look up in the yellow page<br />
Lemme tell you how we fin' to get paid<br />
We gonna order take out and when we see the driver<br />
We gonna stick the 25 up in his face<br />
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Let's ride, steppin' outside like warriors<br />
Head to the notorious Southside<br />
One weapon to the four of us<br />
Hidin' in the corridor until we see the beam from car headlights<br />
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White boy in' the wrong place at the right time<br />
Soon as the car door open up he mine<br />
We roll up quick and put the pistol to his nose<br />
By the look on his face he probably shitted in his clothes<br />
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You know what this is, it's a stick up<br />
Gimme the do' from your pickups<br />
You ran into the wrong niggaz<br />
We runnin' down the block hot with these stacks of boxes<br />
So we split up and met back at the apartment<br />
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Hell yeah, yo ain't you hungry my nigga?<br />
Hell yeah, you wanna get paid my nigga?<br />
Hell yeah, ain't you tired of starvin' my nigga?<br />
Hell yeah, well let's ride then<br />
Hell yeah, hell yeah<br />
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I know a way we can get paid you can get down<br />
But you can't be afraid<br />
Let's go to the DMV and get a ID<br />
The name says you but the face is me<br />
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Now it's your turn take my paper work<br />
Like 1, 2, 3 let's make it work<br />
Then, fill out the credit card application<br />
And it's gonna be 'bout 3 weeks a waitin'<br />
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For American Express, Discover Card<br />
Platinum Visa, Master Card<br />
'Cause when we was spooked as shit then we was targets<br />
Now we just walk right up and say, "Charge it!"<br />
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To the game we rockin' brand names<br />
Well known at department store chains<br />
Even got the boys in the crew a few things<br />
Po po never know who to true blame<br />
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Sto' after sto' you know we kept rollin'<br />
Wait two weeks, report the car stolen<br />
Repeat the cycle like a like a laundry mat<br />
Like a glitch in the system it's hard to catch<br />
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Comin' out the mall with the shoppin' bags<br />
We can take it right back then get the cash<br />
Yeah, get a friend and then do it again<br />
Damn right, that's how we paid the rent<br />
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Hell yeah<br />
Time to get this paper<br />
I'm down for the caper<br />
Please steady on<br />
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It's a deadly struggle<br />
We all gotta hustle<br />
This is the way we survive<br />
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Time to get this paper<br />
I'm down for the caper<br />
Please steady on<br />
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It's a deadly struggle<br />
We all gotta hustle<br />
This is the way we survive<br />
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I know a caper<br />
We can get some government paper<br />
You know food stamps, can we really do that?<br />
Hell yeah, right there for the takin'<br />
Fuck welfare, we say reparations<br />
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And, uh, you know the grind<br />
Get up early get in the line and just wait<br />
Everybody on break that's part of the game<br />
And when they call your name<br />
Ms. Case Worker let my state my claim<br />
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I'm homeless, jobless, times is hard, I'm 'bout hopeless<br />
But I gotta eat regardless<br />
No family to run to I'm 22<br />
Now tell me what the fuck am I supposed to do<br />
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My sad story made her feel close to me<br />
I made her feel like it was an emergency<br />
When I came to the crib niggaz couldn't believe<br />
I came back with a big bag of groceries, hell yeah<br />
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Every job I ever had I had to get on the first day<br />
I find out how to pimp on the system<br />
Two steps ahead of the manager<br />
Gettin' over on the regular tax free money out of the register<br />
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And when I'm workin' late nights<br />
Stockin' boxes I'm creepin' they merchandise<br />
And don't put me on dishes I'm droppin' them bitches<br />
And takin' all day long to mop the kitchen shit<br />
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We ain't gettin' paid commission, minimum wage<br />
Modern day slave conditions<br />
Got me flippin' burgers with no power<br />
Can't even buy one off what I make in an hour<br />
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I'm not the one to kiss ass for the top position<br />
I take mine off the top like a politician<br />
Where I'm from doin' dirt is a part of living<br />
I got mouths to feed, dawg, I gots to get it<br />
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Hell yeah, you down to roll my nigga?<br />
Hell yeah, you ready to get your hands dirty my nigga?<br />
Hell yeah, your woman need money and things my nigga?<br />
Hell yeah, well let's ride then<br />
Hell yeah<br />
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If you claimin' gangsta<br />
Then bring on the system<br />
And show that you ready to ride<br />
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'Til we get our freedom<br />
We got to get over<br />
Please steady on the grind<br />
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If you claimin' gangsta<br />
Then bring on the system<br />
And show that you ready to ride<br />
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'Til we get our freedom<br />
We got to get over<br />
Please steady on the grind