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Yeah, got
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you relaxing like you sipping out the wine glass Mack ain't playin' no games, this ain't mine, crack
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You know I'm here to keep my rhymes real Showin' up and blowin' up like I was in a minefield
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When I'm rockin' a song, I blow up like a mine I be droppin' a bomb Matter of fact, you best believe in me, friend I take the sound mine,
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then I add a D to the end Because I utilize my mind, utilize my brain Utilize these rhymes, brutalize with flames H smack up in it,
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I'm gettin' to the money, dog By the way, I like both of your matching bunny suits H-Mack,
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y'all know I ain't stopping Something like a bunny to these tracks I be hopping Ready for the occasion, my freestyle's blazing Every time I spit, I do something amazing
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Y'all know I'm here to keep my raps rare
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One of y'all got blonde hair and the other one got black hair It's H-Mack, I come through with the true swag I'm a nice guy,
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I ain't never been a douchebag Yo, just a rap, it's an honor When I spit,
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man, I'm gettin' through all the drama I be rappin' with such ease At the beginning, your friend, you had to tap her on the knee Like, hold up, hold up, wait a minute,
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come here He needs our words I think he's about to
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spit a crazy rap I think he's about to be absurd Aight, let me do this, y'all, I'm gettin' to the money I told you I'd be jumpin' to the occasion like a bunny Rabbit,
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I'm snappin', y'all know I get love Both of y'all are bunnies, you remindin' me of bugs Y'all know my freestyles,
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leave them all embarrassed Cause I match the tracks like bunnies to carrots Over instrumentals, Harry Mack is rappin' good I said I'm good luck,
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somethin' like a rabbit foot H-Mack up on it, never been a sucker I'm a bad motherfucker I had to use it,
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just to make you smile I get busy
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when I be deliverin' the style They filmin' on they phones
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cause they know it must be captured Y'all are in the presence of a freestyle master
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Never soundin' soft off the head You falling over but please don't fall off the bed
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If you fell off and hurt yourself from this dude, that'd be rude Plus I don't wanna get sued My freestyles, man, they really have no flaw,
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dude I mean, I really can't afford a fucking lawsuit I'ma break it down
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and I'll make it understood Y'all are humans but you look like bunnies
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when you raise your hoods I put it there for all of y'all, silly rabbit Microphones are for Harry, you know I kill from habit I be the realest addict
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And y'all know I got hella free Shining like your light blue LEDs
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And y'all know I'm here to speak for y'all Blending different
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imagery Kinda like your picture wall I see the background so you know I gotta call it out Rhyming for my fans,
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man that's something that I'm all about These rappers jelly cause I'm going where they wanna go Putting work in, y'all know that I wanna blow I ain't never falling off,
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I make the honor roll That's the end of my verse, I'm singing Vamanos, please
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We'll be
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right back.
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They talking about COVID when I heard the news I started sipping the remedy If I got an eye for you, say you my brother Then it better be your enemy I'm taking them back to the band I'm way back
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when that nigga was breaking the interim Stay with the truth like a Timberland Lady got guy in that Kimberly
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Capital Jephah and Stitch These niggas who snitching, they acting real
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I wanna catch my chick from shit, fix your furniture I just bought a new full fifth From my man,
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just came from a land of trunk full He just got back from a road trip Gave me two cartridges, box of bullets for both clips He said, you better buy a couple more, they gon' be so quick I said,
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my nigga, when you sliding off Cause I'ma do this juxt tonight, then I'm back tomorrow to buy them all I took the laws, but now I'm back buying raw Sell it for the Shaq,
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but I get it for the Brian Shaw Letting off this Mac, got you niggas trying to climb a wall I put the
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pressure on your shooters like Kawhi the claw In every verse I'm applying more Heard 6ix9ine testified, I ain't surprised at all We do the walk-ups,
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my nigga we ain't driving by I brought Flea with me
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and he been dying to slide My nigga did 12 years for letting iron fly Left when he was 16, he came home Zion size My doctor mad
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that I wouldn't let him operate I bounce back and I just make more money than my doctor make Violating you, getting a surgeon
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and a doctor date I'm like a helicopter landing all the noise my child will make Ask if it's a problem, they won't answer me back I'm caught siding poorly,
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Carmelo Anthony back Really just came to see my plug, I go hand them the sack I'm smiling like Anderson Paak
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when he hand me the packs My niggas pull up in a gray spaceship, hop out of fed ASICs Told Flea you gon' be rich,
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you just gotta stay patient My bitch looking like a youngster Nate Lathan Sittin' ringside watchin' Tank Davis Johnny Dame chain bracelet, whoop Niggas mad cause I'm eatin'
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and they can't take it Bout to drop my album and the impact gon' shake pavement If it's slow, four goons pull up with K's wavin' A lot of bullets thrown like when Brady played Peyton
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Rock the designer to my drawers, niggas slide into the mall But ain't findin' this Dior, nigga We was in the trenches sellin' China by the store
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by the store window watcher in the trap Mac 90 by
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the door in Houston riding down Westheimer in the car
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that cause more than what you sign for admire from afar
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if you niggas run up on me then I'm firing this
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raw chopper set you fuck niggas on fire I'm the guard niggas He's on fire!
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Michael, Michael!
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Michael, Michael, Michael!
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Yeah, Michael, Michael, Michael!
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Michael, Michael, Michael!
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Alright, alright, Michael!
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Michael, Michael, Michael!
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Yeah, Michael, Michael, Michael!
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Yeah!
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Mike, yo!
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Once again it's the sinister, cynical minister shady Quip the knight to Superman, he's a dentist to Amy Administer of the pain,
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just finished huffing the pain And muffler fumes like it was nothing
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because it ain't Anything in his way is enemies he displays His venomous spray reaches like beams of energy rays
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Menacing stares he glars, making the hairs all on the back of your neck Staying like Dracula, yep, spectacular rep He's a tarantula, garb answer, and yeah, Angela,
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so I command you to start dancing Part Manson, part Hannibal, part mechanical Shark throwing animal parts at Scarlett Johansson Into my gas chamber,
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you're gangsta my ass He's got his fangs to your neck, he said to strangle your ass Hater, you're facing a task, braider, he's chasing your ass He's got his face in the mask,
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your blood stains on his glass table I'm checking the exposure
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of photos of me exposing Myself locked inside of a cozy hotel posing With and without clothing, next to the decomposing Bodies eroding while I'm dozing,
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off overdosing Windows opening, shutting, doors opening, closing I think there's a ghost, too much hydrocodone coating I was only supposed to swallow a half,
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I took the whole thing I'm not joking, I think I just snorted my nose ring I need a drink, I'm standing over the sink posing Myself self-loathing,
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cause I'm on the brink Mostly I don't wanna think This'll make everything rosy, Beverly sings I scream while I'm severing three toesies Totally frozen while I close in I'm yodeling,
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Rosie, won't you come out to play?
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Ain't no sense wasting time Cutting
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and pasting headlines in the papers Making shrines of my crimes
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and capers My world's a whirlwinds I murder my girlfriends Go to Europe
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and put Neurofins in my syrup and stirred em' You never heard em' like this
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so don't encourage em' The Neural Surgeon Coat mirrors
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and lyrics worsen' The kind of person to get Katie Couric
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to cursin' 80 spirits of ladies cause Shady murdered the virgins Crazy turn up, events a day he emerged Took over the world, enrivaled in all the children Lord,
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I'm into the building and killed him Buried him in the mugs
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and mildew And he will do what he feels
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and still can spin Drawing the gold like Rump and Steel skin Cotton to silk, Muldron to Tylenol, three pills The real slim,
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Shady's entered the building It's nothing but grumbled leaves and tumbleweeds up in this Mildred, he's ill with it, he still shouldn't be healed There's no one as sick as he
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and Caesar Get fricocceed on the grill then Ohhhhhhhhhh
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They're sucking glass dicks, vivid images going gits Any fantasy you can fathom, phantoms ain't the only thing that's suicidal Open the doorway to his soul, hit the hallway then hit the closet You see a rifle,
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aiming at your arteries, part of me, parts of me are psycho In retrospect, my respect was a Power Ranger,
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I know Tumbling backwards into a karate kicking high note My innocence will eventually see a hindrance surrendering Ninja Turtles, Pisha and Sega Genesis hurtled over my bunk bed,
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ear hustling Something my papa said that caught my attention His eyes red, he smoking no marijuana, mixing a 211
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And he said I'm seven going on 67 The day I turn 17 is the day
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that a lesson inside my lifetime Come across a close line, every stick my cosign Everything in the streets got the power to make me go blind Even
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if he sat me down in the sun
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and gave me those eyes Comprehend it well
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and I can smell the soberness evaporating by itself He said
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Tony my biggest fear is to hear Kendrick disappeared in the fire out here
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and I didn't help So
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if I can give him the game to hydroplane his decisions in life
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So he can go further than the streets
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and remain to be on the honor roll Sacrifice my life even
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if that shit my momma doe Till the day he carried by the big six Domino,
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come Yeah,
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rest assured, the best is here in the flesh and that's for sure The rest should wear my vest, I'm set for war, nigga press record I send niggas to address the law,
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same floor to put your neck to swore The same floor to just undress your heart, take over nigga check the score This is chess, better check your ball, who gave the world more fire but got less reward No stress,
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my only guess is that less is more, more or less hundred G's in my dress to draw I'm blessed, hope I arrest, don't arrest me for it, I'm new to it My new crib,
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got the Times Square view to it While two bitches lay in my bed, I'm used to it That's your best friend giving me a head, now you do it See, mommy, it's not so weird After I hit, I cut you off like Picasso,
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yeah Van Gogh or whoever Goddamn, Cole, you're too clever Like a fucking James Brown sample You're too ever Times two,
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that's forever More treble Meaning more high-end shit on your level Put the fear of God in, niggas, I'm pure devil Walk in contradiction, my description Off the top,
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magician Compositions, non-fiction Shitter than the competitions Pot to piss and gone, uh So long, uh Saturdays, a nigga used to more lawns,
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uh Nowadays, a nigga be eating prawns Fuck my bitch by the window, wave to the peeping times, uh Yes, I'm Carolina's finest Southern nigga with New York stamps Honest,
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out in Queens with the fiends I'm your highness Cold world, no mistake it for a sinus Infection at this point of this flex
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And boss is next in line And the test is time Play the game right nigga, he gon' rest his mind In the sands of Sudan where she rest her mind
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And find peace cause her son'll be fine He got the city on his back
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and I got him on mine You think I'm lying shit?
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Step one, got the villa on map Shit I predicted in my rap, so I done did all that Nicks please, eat rappers, mmm, check please Here's a tip, why niggas grip my testes You wanna shoot,
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then shoot, don't play with me Hardest shit out the South since slavery, nigga Talk that talk!
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Hardest shit out the South since slavery, nigga Jake!
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So called the Uber, got dropped off, hit five stars He was the coolest, but not the cleanest But at least he played my music Ha ha Hopped in
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that bitch like I was Kunta I can't lie, shit was a vibe, they playing future I'm getting high, speakers was loud as Metro booming But seen these guys with evil eyes, what they up to?
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Wait, did she go?
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I recognized her from her booty I walked out like baby with a shot, like how you doing?
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And she turned around with the stone face I was confused
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and I realized I looked in the eyes of a Medusa Left, right, punch, kick, getting drunk, no shit, oh shit Broke ribs, still throwing both fists, don't miss Now my modular got contusions,
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I'm on my back, too many cats, I just see hummus Call a doctor!
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There was nothing else I can do in a street fight, wishing nobody used a Hadouken They started to run from boys and blues, yeah I'm not a fan of the police, but hallelujah Moral of the story fellas,
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don't be stupid, wanna meet a chick, then take her ass to the movies Back to the telly, but never give up your room key,
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boys and girls, thank you for tuning in Coast I make your mouth peace,
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obese like Della Reese When I release, you lose teeth like little C's Player please, blood floods your dungarees And that's just the half of my warpath Last now,
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I cry later I rhyme greater than the average player hater
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And spectators buy my CD twice They see me in the streets, they be like, yo, he nice But that's on the low-dough Be them cats with no dough,
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try to play me at my show I pull out four foes and go up in they clothes Short chain, snort cane I'm watching King quicker,
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forth the range nigga It still tickle me, I used to be as strong as Ripple B Till little C's cripple me,
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now I play hard like my girl's nipples B The game sour like a pickle bee, y'all know the rules Move from BK to New Jeruz Think about all the planes we flew,
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females we ran through Now the year's new, I lay my game flat I want my spot back, take two Mad cause I'm blue,
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players envy us Too many players on my shit strenuous When my men bust, you just move with such stamina Slugs missed ya,
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I ain't mad at ya Slugs rushin' bun-bushin' concussions Catch cases
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come out frontin' Smokin' somethin' sippin' white Russians Bitchin' the Benz bumpin' Laced it with the basic Six TVs, a system, knockin' mace Face it,
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we hard to hit Guard your before I hit you With your re-up, like the P up, licked shots, woke your seat up, went in the aft train,
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sparked the weed up, long kiss He doing his own edits,
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man I'm trying, I'm trying I'm sorry for your loss,
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there's a body dead in the car and it's probably one of yours They're writing all across the window in the walls, whether it was true or false, we shouldn't have got involved Remember, we walked past the teacher,
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take the chalk and laugh We wrote punishments, I will not talk in class Now it's pistols punishing people for talking fast
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And all these innocent bystanders is hauling ass I hate to say I told y'all, but I told y'all things fall apart
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when it's in a too weak to hold y'all I'm just
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collecting what you owe to my old jaw You about to get swooped down on and stole thorn Fool swear they wise, wise men know they foolish
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But we was headed for the web even before computers I
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never thought you'd give me a reason to do this Cain and Nabal, Jesus and Judas Caesar and Brutus, I see intruders, avert your eyes I told you keep out of the hood,
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circumcised How could you sleep?
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I thought you always was the first to rise Ayo, you heard the line, everybody plays the fool?
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Well, I be that exception to the rule The principle to hand, deliver lessons to the school I was making major moves, my dollar deja vu My mission,
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with my ambition, was brandishing a tool to be an icon Wearing slippers made of python, getting mine quicker, cause I'm slick as a pipeline Transporting the oil,
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tribulation and toil hit the operation But I'm back in the soil, got my crown tilted, my gown quilted Silk with cashmere, burn the Rome down in a minute Built it last year, newsflash, I dodged a bullet
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that killed the cashier My homie told me to come with
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him to the mass shed Them brothers said don't go from
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written bars filled with rage To primetime television in your gilded
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cage Then forget it's people in the world still enslaved I barbed wire my wrist
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and let it fill the page Gunfire and flares, sirens glare I'm in an iron chair with people who care Don't get the lion's share
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When I don't give a fuck then I ain't fair I'm
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on a higher tier with people getting money like the financier Catch the Herald, I'm fresh chopped and bevel rap on a doctor level So F Scott Fitzgerald,
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maybe I'm the new Rakim Maybe I'm Fat Pharaoh, undergarments of armor be my intimate apparel Pre-Kardashian Kanye, my rhyme play immaculate Same KB says D.O.C.
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Pre-accident, maybe my acumen's on par Rucuji rapping him, give me the proper respect respect, motherfucker we back again, for a couple things we lost in the fire,
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the drive, the desire to perform on a higher plateau, I'm at that show lost in the mire, wondering how we got so far from inspired.
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Look, when photos were sepia-toned, and record players were something you were keeping your home, yo the traveler, the meaning of Tariki was known, for the exemplary performance, uniquely his own,
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I made the 21 pound for some a new found religion, when money's put down it's only one sound that make OG's and young lions equally proud to listen,
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the secret Amalgamism, an algorithm coming from where only kings
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and crowns permitted the darkness Where archaeologists found my image in
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parchment Rolled into a scroll holding a message for you It said the only thing for sure is taxes, death and trouble The anomaly swore in solemnly,
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high snobbity, Freakonomics and war policy dichotomy That's heaven and Hades, Tigris and Euphrates, his highness The apple of the Irish to you ladies as babies We went from Similac
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and Infamil to the internet and fentanyl With our consent, we're still against the will I got that detox for y'all, the microphone Dr. Black, Deepak,
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Shapal I'm a Gryotte, that make you wanna peacock You're on, every heavy dignitary, pay your me-top Regards boy,
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I'm three octaves far from the binocular So that smart money's finna get the heat out The car, yo, I'm K-Dot, Lamar meets Tupac Shakal Got profiled by a few cops,
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too hot to charge Listen, somebody said a price tag was on a rapper's head So we gon' see a nice bag, when a rapper dead The mask black,
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the flag green, black and red They probably wave a white flag after plasma shed No doubt, yo the game went they on route I can't explain what these lame kids is torn about
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Or how they fit they whole foot into their own mouth I put a couple bodies in a brown bag, then I'm on route I'm sneak and shopping with my son a size 8 Prior to they release, cause why wait?
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Look, in my state I got electrified gates For these blase guys hatin' at a high rate Cause I dodged fake, then got great to fly straight If we ain't family or friends,
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then we don't vibrate And I'm that gun of y'all faith, none of y'all safe If I catch you at the right time, in the wrong place, slipping Sipping on something with a strong taste Like whiskey
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or bootleg bourbon with a corn vase My Levante resemble a
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vehicular threat The mic I spray resembling a sickle of death
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It ain't strenuous to come from a continuous breath I set fire to the venue, I'ma spin you a step Rinse, repeat, you checking for the...
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What up?
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Bob We appreciate all your the whole thing man changed our life here we go here we go here we go Hi,
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what's your name?
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How are you?
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How's your life?
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Oh, you got a man.
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Are you in love if so type?
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Is it just platonic strictly justice for it?
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I don't know how I'ma do this.
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Check it out.
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Check it out.
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Check it.
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Yo.
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Check it.
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Yo, why we hold gats, you hold knives.
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When you sold apes, we sold pies.
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When you rode bikes, we drove fives.
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There's no comparison, son.
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In the whole New York
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Trying to bring the prices down You better spread with them $30 kicks on
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Or get ripped on Knocked out cold
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and pissed on L is a heavyweight with steady paper You
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the type to go to jail for a petty caper They come home on good behavior
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Talking bout you no longer hard now Cause you a man of God now Yo it's amazing, L is blazing Always been, before I put the braids in I used to let the
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waves in What you be saying don't impress me at all
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And them chicks you be J'ing don't be sexy at all Well life, everything that I recite stand out Go head in front so I can try this right hand out Across your jaw,
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L never lost the war No respect for them cowards who enforce the law You got something to say, cough it out Cause cats be wanting beef Your cats be wanting beef, but when you pull out the heat, they're ready to talk it out.
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What is there to talk about?
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You was just frontin', now it ain't nothin', ain't that something.
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I should start bustin' anyway, and put one of you punks in the ground.
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Your cats be killin' me with your faces frown, jumpin' around like you scaring L, not even.
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Bro, cause I'ma be a thug until I stop breathin'.
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Plus I'm runnin' with a smooth crew, that'll shoot at you.
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You wanna knuckle up, then we can do that too.
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Aight?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Top 10 Greatest Freestyles Of All Time”. This video has 214 sentences and 3976 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:18. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 71% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
bunny noun/ˈbʌni/A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
rhyme noun/ɹaɪm/Rhyming verse (poetic form).
sip verb/sɪp/To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
utilize verb/ˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of utilise.
spit verb/spɪt/To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
rapper noun/ˈɹæpɚ/The knocker of a door.
rabbit noun/ˈɹæbɪt/A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)
highness noun/ˈhaɪnəs/The state of being high.
strenuous adjective/ˈstɹɛ.nju.əs/Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
blaze noun/bleɪz/A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
shady adjective/ˈʃeɪdi/Abounding in shades.
freestyle noun/ˈfɹiːˌstaɪl/A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
dough noun/doʊ/A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
dodge verb/dɑd͡ʒ/To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
bout noun/ˈbaʊt/A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
fall off verbTo become detached or to drop from.
hold up verbTo wait or delay.
pull out verbTo withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
take over verbTo assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
blow up verbTo explode or be destroyed by explosion.
come across verbTo change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
come out verb/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/To be discovered; to be revealed.
drop off verbTo fall asleep.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Rosie, won't you come out to play?
  • Are you in love if so type?
  • I don't know how I'ma do this.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 137 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, ain't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shady /ˈʃeɪdi/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, flesh /flɛʃ/
  • Long words — get the stress right: spectacular /spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, marijuana /ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/

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 bunny, rhyme, sip.

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