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[Verse 1]
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Now I was barely seventeen with a pocket full of hope
Screamin' "dollar and a dream" with my closet lookin' broke
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And my nigga's lookin' clean, gettin' caught up with that dope
Have you ever served a fiend with a pocket full of soap?
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Nigga I can tell you things that you probably shouldn't know
Have you ever heard the screams when the body hit the floor?
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Flashbacks to the pain, wakin' up, cold sweats
Six o'clock in the mornin', gotta hit the BowFlex
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Get my weight up on the block, keep watch for the cops
God they love to serve a nigga three hots and a cot
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Nowadays crime pays like a part time job
And the drought got me prayin' for a Carl Thom vibe
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Summer Rain come again
Numb the pain 'cause it's hard for a felon
In my mind I been cryin', know it's wrong but I'm sellin'
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Eyes wellin' up with tears
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Thinkin' 'bout my niggas dead in the dirt
Immortalized on this shirt

[Hook]
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Real niggas don't die
Forward with the plot
One-Seven-Forty-Five
Form at the plot
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Real niggas don't die
Form on the block
Real niggas don't lie
Form in the plot
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My niggas don't die
Form on the block
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Real niggas don't die
Form on the block
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Real niggas don't die
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Real niggas don't die

[Verse 2]
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Have you ever seen a fiend cook crack on the spoon?
Have you ever seen a nigga that was black on the moon?
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Have you ever seen your brother go to prison as you cry?
Have you ever seen a motherfuckin' ribbon in the sky?
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Nope, all I see is that C.R.E.A.M nigga, that green
I'm a black king, black jeans on my black queen
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And her ass fat, too fat for a flat screen
I'm the type of nigga make the whole fuckin' trap lean
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Kingpin nigga, put wings on a crack fiend
If they want a nigga, they gon' have to send a SWAT team
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And I'm goin' out like Scarface in his last scene
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A legend, what that mean—?

[Hook]
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Real niggas don't die
Forward with the plot
One-Seven-Forty-Five
Form at the plot
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Real niggas don't die
Form on the block
Real niggas don't lie
Form in the plot
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My niggas don't die
Form on the block
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Real niggas don't die
Form on the block
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Real niggas don't die
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Real niggas don't die


[Outro]
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To die a young legend or live a long life unfulfilled
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'Cause you wanna change the world
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But while alive you never will
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'Cause they only feel you after you gone, or I've been told
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And now I'm caught between bein' heard and gettin' old
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Damn, death creepin' in my thoughts lately
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My one wish in this bitch, "Make it quick if the Lord take me"
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I know nobody meant to live forever anyway
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And so I hustle like my niggas in Virgini-A
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They tellin' niggas, "sell dope, rap or go to NBA," (in that order)
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It's that sort of thinkin' that been keepin' niggas chained
At the bottom and hanged
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The strangest fruit that you ever seen
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Ripe with pain, listen...