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Snub firing, you gonna get your bean hit up.
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Forensics are coming, clean shit up.
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We can't find you, then we find your girl, the scheme switcher.
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Soon as she try to call Colette, the machine pick up.
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It's me, nigga.
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Y'all fucking dumb.
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Hello?
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Swing on him while he not looking and cracking shit from the shoulders, lean into the punch.
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Like activists, I mastered this.
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It was what you did.
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The spec I had for him, left at the last known.
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When I clapped chrome, caps blown.
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Ball heads, smack domes.
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Little nigga, act grown.
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Before I break a half zone of your backbone, you lost the DNA.
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And I got DNA on my hammer like tack stone.
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Watch what you say.
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Like all thugs, Rock could show you with baking soda and soft thugs, I caught cuz.
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At the trap where he bought drugs, clapped a mechanic and was serving him.
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I sparked plugs.
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You might not miss that old rock.
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Throw your dead body off a boat dock.
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Blow up the whole block, dynamite tape to a old clock.
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Get your showstop, nigga, you gonna need the whole swat.
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The sawed off?
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Name Michael Jackson because the nose chop.
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You're a nose squat.
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Boy, watch!
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Watch!
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Talk to me nice!
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Talk to me nice!
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If we wrecked, then it's a wreck.
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JC trying to break it up, his little neck is getting snapped.
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Cal, step in, get him clapped.
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He'll be Isaiah Thomas, Detroit nigga pissed on with 11 in his back.
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Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, that's a case for beloved.
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I'll wave it in public.
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All hell raises.
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Pfft!
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Them the 12 gauges!
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Them the shell cases!
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It's too bad!
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It's too bad!
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You can get stabbed, beat with a bat, or shout with these.
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I bring a whole list for award, like nominees, shots released, me, niggas.
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No pipe with him?
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Then it's the blade, the strike in him.
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I might kill him.
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He trying to wrestle, but losing the fight in him.
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His life ending.
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Paralyze him as soon as the knife in him.
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Leave twerk without a bottom half, like white women.
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I'm a twerk.
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My temper's short enough, my bar's cold.
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Hot-headed nigga, but I'm just warming up.
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Ay, you know how an abandoned house be boarded up?
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I pay my shooter a band, then your house be boarded up.
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You know what I'm about?
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Fuck out my way, that's the best solution.
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I'm ten times better than Ben.
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I'm a credit union.
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If shit go further than fucking rap, snuff this cat.
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Open up the trunk, you get stuffed in that.
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A couple clap, you won't hear right when I buck the get.
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I keep squeezing till something fly in his ear like, what the fuck is that?
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Get a machine in his face, get your vision check.
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He ain't know if he was squinting at a DE or FN.
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He failed a vision test.
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The can lift, I'm a pistol with him.
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I should have shot him.
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Gun butt, he gon' fall out with ease like Muslim Papi.
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Copy?
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Copy?
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It rains, it snows, it's hell in there.
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We ain't even gonna jump em.
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This ass whooping?
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Hella fair.
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Shit, I'll bring a weapon there, nigga.
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Try to run.
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I ain't Obama, but rock won't leave one Miss Shelly in there.
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Fucking human torch, the fire on with me.
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And this'll break a bone, thug.
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The choir sing a harmony. Who are?
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I am going to fucking kill you, nigga.
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I will be the reason everything you enjoy over on one knee with this rifle.
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Do this look like a toy soldier?
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You dumb bitch!
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You can never fuck with me, nigga!
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Your Fahala get him, they all get him.
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They target him.
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Bullet hit the glass, lead the car spinning.
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No dodge in him.
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Your head ram on a steering wheel like the Dodge emblem.
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Two nines.
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Nina, Nicki, you can maneuver.
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Your energy low in the red zone.
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You wanna make a name off rock?
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Here's a headstone.
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Machete leave your shit hanging slice through the neck bone.
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He gonna look like he DJ and listening to one
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Thrown in the oven while your mama looking so not only can she see but she can What rock is cooking?
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Might sound straight odd, but I was gonna not show up like pull a scam on this bank fraud
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He got shot and survived, thank God.
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Two, two, three to the back is not a CVV on a bank card.
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I come to the hospital, he getting surgery and mess up the procedure.
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Now I call him to the studio, he get set up for a fee.
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Dior stomping him out, I don't step in no Adidas.
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Show up like JC in a hoodie, here's a message from the Reaper.
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Blow everything that he thawed out, shoulda left it in the freezer.
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Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
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I wait, I spray my K, knock your head off your shoulders.
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I sit day by day, 10 and whip.
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I could turn into a dangerous nigga, pistol with me with the stainless nigga.
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Wire your jaw, your mouth gon' have retainers nigga.
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We won't be able to understand what you been saying.
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Speak English, nigga.
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Oh my God!
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You fucking stupid!
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Back forward, get back doored.
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I pull this out for war, put it toward and push back.
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Backward.
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I like that.
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Word!
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Right-handed.
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I shoot it to the tech jam.
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But it's ugly.
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It look like I drew it with my left hand.
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Don't talk about who beat me till you beat me.
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You PG.
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I get paid.
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You do freebies.
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Lips closed.
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We outside his crib.
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We'll extend those.
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We gon' hop Bill Gates and start the running windows.
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I need a mental check.
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My skull got a loose screw.
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My squatter just cruised through.
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Your mama gon' lose you.
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Now she had a funeral, cause the dog didn't pull through.
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Not only is your men in black, but the dog in his suit too.
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You're a big white bitch.
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Clap on you, tap water, give you a lead taste.
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With no mask, I'ma show Yogi the bare face.
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I already bodied the nigga the right for you.
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Get clips the fuck outta here.
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How dare you diss my nigga sayin' get smacked the fuck outta here.
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If I was smacked, I would've stepped back like, you ain't gettin' paid you ever half, son.
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Now get your ass the fuck outta here.
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Metal will clap, twirl to the back, John stop it.
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If me and you start boxing, your jaw droppin'.
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I will not feel it's the Trinidad but no Hopkins
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I'm in a box cutter do you awfully hit a artery
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watch his clothes turn mahogany Pardon me you can never fuck
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with me your country He can't knock out a piece of
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his brain I ain't gotta connect four one round all it take to stop three of them things
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Do I need to explain?
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It's me, it's me It's Chale will if I still will, it's still will He won't remember around.
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Our young Elwell, I let the crowd choose how you get it.
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Want our Kelwell, should I give him a Smith like Emmet or Emmet Till Well?
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I'm gonna grab your arm, break it.
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I'm gonna take it to the worst level.
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I'm gonna vacuum my Christian ashes up in the dirt devil.
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Think music genres.
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Rock came on the scene and jazz died.
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I take a razor, cut through his bone till I break his finger, Run his head through a wall, look like I'm doing a Kamehameha What?
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What?
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I'm in his gut, nah, I'll twist and push so it's way deeper Like Thanos, I'll snap and put a blade through a gatekeeper I told him, I told him, I told him,
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I told him A Taliban, I pay him to leave your head wrapped Dead that, on my can and a dunk The chopper heavy, I had the Packer stand in the trunk I leave an
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Iraqi nigga from Packer stand in the trunk You an Eminem fan, I literally pack a stand in the trunk!
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You saying the wrong shit get my adrenaline racing.
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I get your location sticks will be waving.
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Once I find where the most electric live, that's the crib that we raided.
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Shit in the chain, it's mine!
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The in me is what made you legendary.
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Charlie get hit with the first and then the secondary.
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Then DNA get the business like it's hereditary!
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This is where you'll see the last of them.
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Don't move.
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You take one more step with rock, you traveling.
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Clips is going blaze.
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You'll turn up dead.
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I'm better than lay.
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You my brother.
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I can't watch you die.
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So I turn my head.
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He'll get a fresh round in his mouth.
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That's a peppermint.
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Chopper, sound like a helicopter.
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I start propelling shit.
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Double barrel look like I snatched the trunk off an elephant
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Enough's enough
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I'm with some other stuff I'm known for these gun rounds
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But I'll put these guns down and fuck you up
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If I don't knock you out when we knuckle up Then the razor come out
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When I swing it you get your uppercut I grab you by your neck You get another cut
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and another cut It look like the seatbelt won't work And I'm trying to buckle up Boy Boy What?
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What?
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What?
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What?
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Rick!
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Rick!
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It's me!
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It's me!
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It's me!
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Nigga!
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It's all fucking dumb!
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Hello?
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Rick!
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Rick!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 210 sentences and 1608 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:06. The speaker talks at a natural 159 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 73% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

  • clap /klæp/ (verb) — To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
  • trunk /tɹʌŋk/ (noun) — The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
  • rick /ɹɪk/ (noun) — Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
  • bone /boʊn/ (noun) — A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  • knock /nɑk/ (verb) — To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
  • outta /ˈaʊtə/ — Out of.
  • smack /smæk/ (verb) — To slap or hit someone.
  • swing /ˈswɪŋ/ (verb) — To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
  • clip /klɪp/ (noun) — Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  • mama /ˈmɑmə/ (noun) — Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
  • snap /snæp/ (verb) — To fracture or break apart suddenly.
  • blade /bleɪd/ (noun) — The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
  • wreck /ˈɹɛk/ (noun) — Something or someone that has been ruined.
  • dodge /dɑd͡ʒ/ (verb) — To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  • pistol /ˈpɪstəl/ (noun) — A handgun

Phrasal verbs you will hear

  • stand in (verb) — To substitute for; to replace
  • show up (verb) — To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
  • step in (verb) — To act as a replacement or substitute.
  • blow up (verb) — To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
  • come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — Come along with me; join me in going.
  • come out /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ (verb) — To be discovered; to be revealed.
  • cut through (verb) — To take a shortcut through.
  • get back (verb) — Return to where one came from.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 61 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, ain't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “th” sounds: thug /θʌɡ/, thaw /θɔː/
  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shell /ʃɛl/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, ash /ˈæʃ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, shooter /ˈʃuːtəː/
  • Long words — get the stress right: legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, adrenaline /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/, hereditary /həˈɹɛdɪˌtɛɹi/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like clap, trunk, rick.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its resultIf I was smacked, I would · if I still will
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itbe boarded · was smacked

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