[Intro]
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Youre proud of that fact that youre-youre in the gang
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From Lime Hood
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Why? But youre proud of the fact that youre what, why is that?
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Why?
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Yeah
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‘Cause Im down, Im down for it
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‘Cause Im a true ****
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Im a true ****
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I come from the heart
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What-what, why?
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W-w-why be in a gang, whats in it for you?
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Whats in it?
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Well, you get killed, right?
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Yeah
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You mean some of your friends been killed?
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Yeah
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So
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For a simple cause
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W-w-whats the simple cause?
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Of bein a Blood
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[Chorus: DOM KENNEDY]
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On Rosecrans off Gin and Juice
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On Rosecrans off Gin and Juice
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‘Round here niggas aint got shit to lose
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Young niggas off the chain and they gettin loose
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L.A. niggas with the bullshit
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You better not step to me wrong
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Ill burn five hundred dollar candles
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Will they mourn me when Im gone?
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[Verse 1: The Game]
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39 and Im still bangin
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I cant get out if I wanted to
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All I did was document my life
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I aint put that red rag in front of you
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My first album had the world lit
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Hit the hood and brought that Hummer through
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I finally got the Impala candy-painted
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Show you outta-towners what that summer do
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Started off with sixty niggas with me everywhere I went
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Hundred-twenty cups inside a Summer Jam tent
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I went from broke, fantasizin bout Christina Aguilera
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To puttin TVs in the dash of my mamas Xterra
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This is real shit
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Im spittin bars from the gun niggas get killed with
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I had to cover my son and let that steel spit
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I talked about it in songs, niggas got real sick
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Dre thought that I was just rappin
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I told em I had bodies, no cappin
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Nigga, this the new Compton
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2005, my whole life got live
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Picture a gang member on the cover of the Vibe
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Tell em why its West Side
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[Chorus: DOM KENNEDY]
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‘Cause L.A. niggas with the bullshit
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You better not step to me wrong
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Ill burn five hundred dollar candles
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Will they mourn me when Im gone?
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On Rosecrans off Gin and Juice
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On Rosecrans off Gin and Juice
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‘Round here niggas aint got shit to lose
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Young niggas off the chain and they gettin loose
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[Verse 2: The Game]
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They dont put me on the set at Rollin Loud
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AK-47 only way I move the crowd
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This my life
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Its more than music
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A lot of niggas rap but I was born to do it
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Took my mama two days to give birth
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And how I repay her? Goin through her motherfuckin purse
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Its crazy how she loved me after all my dirt
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Nigga disrespect her, he gon touch the earth
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If its me or my niggas, then Ima die first
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Go on my ‘Gram, put that pic of me and DOM on some shirts
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Its all fun and games til that Super Soaker squirt
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You lost somebody you love, I know it hurt
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I got two dead brothers, one dead father
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A mama with a pacemaker, two sons, and a daughter
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I got a lot to live for but I aint scared to die
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I got this Hennessy and my nigga DOM KENNEDY, West Side
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[Chorus: DOM KENNEDY]
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Them L.A. niggas with the bullshit
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You better not step to me wrong
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Ill burn five hundred dollar candles
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Will they mourn me when Im gone?
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Them L.A. niggas with the bullshit (Bullshit)
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You better not step to me wrong (Step to me wrong)
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Ill burn five hundred dollar candles (Dollar candles)
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Will they mourn me when Im gone?
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[Outro: DOM KENNEDY]
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How long? Yeah
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How long? Uh-huh
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Yup, straight like that, yeah
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Five hundred dollar candles
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When Im gone, yeah
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Now, step to me wrong
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Five hundred dollar candles
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Will they mourn me when Im gone? (Yeah)
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Gone, haha, Im gone, yeah
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Yup
