[Verse 1]
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I dont know what I’ma do
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I dont know where I’ma live
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‘Cause it feel like I aint got nothing to give
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Just wanna follow my dreams
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Just wanna follow my heart
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But the world wanna tear me apart right from start
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Everything I ever wanted, it aint what I thought
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Bring it back to the roots like my name Black Thought
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This shit right here, no it cant be taught
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Gotta be learned, it gotta be earned
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I aint got a pocket full of money but Im full of hope
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I dont wanna rob people, I dont wanna push dope
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I just wanna live, I just wanna maintain
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Like a bullet to the brain
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Gotta play the game like a chess board
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If yah wanna go to war, gotta bring yah best sword
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I feel like Im going crazy, like I need a psych ward
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Think my mind playing tricks on me like a Geto Boy
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Feel like I need to murder em in the moment I deploy
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Everybody, anybody, somebody fill the void, somebody fill the void
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Listen, I dont wanna work a job, motherfuck a 9 to 5
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Every time I get a check, what I really get? Robbed
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Livin in America, this shit is a facade
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But you gotta push through and persevere, word to God
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Tryna find a home, but I cant afford a home
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‘Cause Im 25 and owe a hunnid grand in student loans
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Tryna get healthcare, but Im on welfare
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Man I swear to god, I wish I was living in Bel Air
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Fuck Medicaid, I just wanna get paid
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Wit a couple bad bitches at the crib, gettin laid
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Thats what Im taught by the media
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Television tellin my vision to get greedier
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Come now everybody stay tune like T-Pain
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Operate the drive in yah mind like a keychain
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Come now folk, get woke, stay woke
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‘Cause the white man want the black man stay broke
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Fuck that, Im finna buck back
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But not wit bullets, I’ma use my education to the fullest
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I’ma get out of debt, Ima reset
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I’ma get out of debt, Ima reset
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Do whatever you gotta do whenever to live
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But you gotta remember to give back when you get that When you finally get to the top and you hit that pinnacle
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I aint being cynical, Im just being real
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I believe that everybody feel, everybody feel, listen up Everybody over here
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I promise to God on everything it aint nothing to fear Anybody that can hear, just fight
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Fight for the right
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Fight for ya life
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Fight for what you believe is right
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Fight for what you believe is right
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Everybody fight
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Everybody fight
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Matter fact, everybody beautiful
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But right, what now I need
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[Outro]
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Black people: to just fight, fight for ya right fight, for ya life
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Black people: just fight, fight for the right, fight for ya life
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Black people: are beautiful, incredible, amazing
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Black people: intelligent, so elegant, it’s crazy
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Black people: sit back, just love, and adore
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Black people: one thing, that I, can be sure
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Black people: are beautiful, amazing, incredible
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Black people: are beautiful, amazing, incredible
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Come on, get up, everybody, everybody
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Black people: get up, get up, get up, get up Black people
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Everybody, everybody Black people!
