[Produced by Kanye West & Jon Brion]
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[Chorus: Kanye West, The Game, & Choir]
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Thats that crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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Thats that crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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[Verse 1: Kanye West]
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How we stop the Black Panthers?
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Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer
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You hear that? What Gil Scott was hearin
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When our heroes or heroines got hooked on heroin
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Crack raised the murder rate in D.C. and Maryland
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We invested in that, its like we got Merrill lynched
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And we been hangin from the same tree ever since
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Sometimes, I feel the music is the only medicine
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So we, cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it, sell it
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The fiends cop it, nowadays, they cant tell if
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Thats that good shit, we aint sure, man
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Put the CD on your tongue—yeah, thats pure, man
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[Chorus: Kanye West, The Game, & Choir]
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Thats that crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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Thats that crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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[Verse 2: Kanye West]
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From the place where the fathers gone
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The mothers is hardly home
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And the maricons lock us up in the Audy Home
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How the Mexicans say? “We just tryin to party, holmes”
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They wanna pack us all in a box like styrofoam
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Who gave Saddam anthrax?
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George Bush got the answers
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Back in the hood, its a different type of chemical
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Arm & Hammer baking soda, raised they whole quota
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Right when our soldiers, ran for the stove cause…
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Dreams of being Hova
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Went from bein a broke man to bein a dopeman
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To bein the president—look, theres hope, man!
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This that inspiration for the Moes and the Folks, man
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Shorty come and see his momma straight overdosin
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And this is the soundtrack
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This the type of music that you make when you round that
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[Chorus: Kanye West, The Game, & Choir]
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Crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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Thats that crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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[Break: Kanye West]
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God, how could you let this happen?
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[Interlude: Choir]
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La la la la la la la
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La la la
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La la la
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[Chorus: Kanye West, The Game, & Choir]
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Ugh, thats that crack music, crack music
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That real Black music, Black music
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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Thats that crack music, nigga
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That real Black music, nigga
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La la la la la la la
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La la la la la la la
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La la la la la la la
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Ugh, thats that crack music, crack music
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That real Black music, Black music
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la, la la la
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[Outro: Malik Yusef]
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Our Father, give us this day, our daily bread
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Before the feds give us these days and take our daily bread
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See, I done did all this ol bullshit
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And to atone, I throw a lil somethin-somethin on the pulpit
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We took that shit, measured it, and then cooked that shit
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And what we gave back was crack music
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And now, we ooze it through they nooks and crannies
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So our mamas aint got to be they cooks and nannies
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And we gon repo everything they ever took from granny
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Now, the former slaves trade hooks for Grammys
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This dark diction has become Americas addiction
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Those who aint even Black use it
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We gon keep baggin up this here crack music