[Intro: RZA]
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Windshield, rappers are like gnats
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Theyre gettin splattered ‘pon the windshield
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Fallin down like London Bridge, my blade split your onion head
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Axe that like Paul Bunyan, Meth prefers the gun instead
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Bong bong, put a hole inside your head
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[Hook: RZA]
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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[Verse 1: Cappadonna]
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How come the streets dont want me to live?
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Plus my niggas keep tellin me fibs
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But the devil done poisoned my wiz
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Im doin this for my family and kids
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Im tryna be wealthy, take my time right and stay healthy
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Said it before but I dont think nobody felt me
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Yo tried to understand this hand that this life dealt me
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Im on the verge of a whole new makeover
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My fake friends, they can take it like a takeover
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Im ready to eat, Im ready to grip it
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Got enemies everywhere, I got chicks thats wicked
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Sick shit, niggas doin wicked ass wig shit
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Bid shit, tellin jakes that I had the biscuit
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Niggas be wantin my leftovers
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Im like a general that died and lost some of his best soldiers
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I burn holsters and I kill that dirt religion
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Murk that pigeon and I shoot the television
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[Verse 2: U-God]
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Got that trey pound on you, run down on you
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Hard-boiled nigga, Clan top soil
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My fam straight royal, Ima die loyal
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When them shooters come for you, better throw your flag at em
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Im pure gun oil, let em see that hand cannon
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Foundation strong, never ride a bandwagon
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Andrew Jacksons, hand-to-hand transaction
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Cops jumped out, caught him with his pants saggin
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Criminal individuals up in here
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Wild like the theme park ride called The Buccaneer
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Weed in the Tupperware, throw you off the upper tiers
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Suweeee, I got all my niggas up in here
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[Hook: RZA]
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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[Bridge: RZA]
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Imagine the sound of your face scrapin up against the gate
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Of a barbed wire fence, this is barbed iron fist
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Heartthrob, iron dick, hoes slob the knob quick
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This is odd, so throw it in your iPod quick
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[Verse 3: GZA]
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Lifeless activity, constant movement
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Buyin elasticity, such improvement
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Thought held to where it collapses inward
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Spillin rhymes if its Shaolin vineyards
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RZA had a mixture, then he added sound to the picture
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Co-author rewrote the scripture
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Math worked from birth, doubled the net worth
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Amplified in the time machine of early Earth
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A two-way radio, simple yet complex
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Receivers, transmitters, interest to contacts
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The emergence of the earliest atoms
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Transform to a level extremely hard to fathom
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Same soup, different bowl, Wu ceramics
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Same group on them large-scale dynamics
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A wave triggered the burst, glass was shattered
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Galactic matter served on a graphic platter
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[Hook: RZA]
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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[Verse 4: Method Man]
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Overachiever, power hungry overeater
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I95, whip fly like an overseer
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Im overconfident but some might say Im overeager
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Or overzealous, especially when its over cheeba
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I got a soldiers features, I rock the coldest sneakers
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My sneakers so cold, cant wear em ‘less you hold the heater
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Cant push me over either, that go for dojas
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I aint got no love for posers neither, keep my composure
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Im focused, tryna roll the reefer, lets turn it up
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Forget the cope, Im tryna blow the speaker, thats all he wrote
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One verse could turn your soul to ether
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Its time you gave me my respects just like the old Aretha
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Mr. Meeeth
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[Hook: RZA]
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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We keep it rugged
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We keep it rough
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We keep it real
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We keep it raw
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[Spoken Words]