[Intro]
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Yeah
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Ouuuu
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I'm from the weeeeest
[Verse 1]
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Che Che Che
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Igbo kwenu hey
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Naija boy they love how I accentuate
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Most my partners trynna ball like the NBA
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So they out here moving products like it’s Mary Kay
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I don't knock 'em I just know the game
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They ain’t slaves, they just really love the whips and chains
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The more things change, the more things stay the same
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When I flow every corner see fire like I'm Kane
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So I spit fire, no extinguisher
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Might just teach Fat some Igbo to make her a bilingual
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Speaker, keep up I'll teach ya to aim right with that thing you pull
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Outcho britches when yo' finger itches cause you ain't too keen to wool
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Being pulled over yo got you pressed like a license plate
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You a goofy if Lucy could press yo' buyttons and getcha heated like microwaves, (ouu)
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You, might just need to meditate
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Get yo' mind out that vegetative state
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It's time to elevate
[Chorus]
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Cause I came straight from out the slums
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So I need a check like them Jordan 1S
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I swear this for all of my day ones
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Out here making bread but they came from crumbs
[Verse 2]
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Look flow hotter than pepper spray
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Spit it for my kinky hair kinsmen that have been led astray
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More than bullets from those who pull it in hopes to decimate
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All they opps, cause on our blocks we learnt to regulate from
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Warren G, It’s kinda easy, when ya listen to that G’D up sound I had it on repeat, (ouu)
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Then I got it out the mud
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Walked straight out the puddle
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Where I'm from you yapping they start clapping like it’s time to break the huddle
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Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Ready break
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I remember eating free lunch with them heavy trays
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Most my homeboys blew heavy haze after seventh grade
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And most my homegirls had oval edges with heavy lace
[Pre Chorus]
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It's time to elevate (yea)
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If they hatin' baby let 'em hate, (yea)
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You can see me shinin’ in the shade, (yea)
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We done came up on some better days
[Pre Chorus]
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It's time to elevate
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If they hatin' baby let 'em hate, (yea)
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You can see me shinin’ in the shade, (yea)
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We done came up on some better days
[Bridge]
Em C G
'Cus I came straight from out the slums,
Em C G
So I need a check like them Jordan 1S
Em C
I swear this for all of my day ones,
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Out here making bread but they came from crumbs
[Outro]
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'Cus I came straight from out the slums,
Em G
So I need a check like them Jordan 1S
C G
I swear this for all of my day ones,
G
Out here making bread but they came from crumbs