[Intro]
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If I die before I wake
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At least I lived life my way
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Hope that you remember me
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Came up fast, bittersweet
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Please prepare me mentally
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‘Fore you take my soul and empty me
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[Interlude]
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Now that you’re no longer a lord that’s trapped
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You have graduated to the Hood Pope
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You have made it to represent your people
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Show them another way
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Be the voice of the people who couldn’t make it out the hood
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[Verse 1]
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Make sure my family good, my ma still in the hood
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I ain’t rich like they think cause I copped me one mink
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They think I got me a house with a big couch and a gold sink
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With a model bitch with a gold ring, big ass fish in a fish tank
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Haha, you laughing, just put me in my casket
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I ain’t even into nagging, its what it is, I’m passing
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[Interlude]
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And though times is hard now, your success awaits them
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I’m no different, we all the same
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Ferg made it out? Well, I can play that game
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You’re not exempt from the growing chain
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Niggas forget who’s afraid to change
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Yet a trapped lord, I will remain
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[Verse 2]
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Hood Pope, I’ma teach these confused folks how to maneuver
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Through folks and attention, get you choked, you know
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Slim model girls sniffing the coke
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Fiend on the block sniffin’ the dope
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I wanna help, I don’t know, tell me the, antidote
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How you hood and a pope
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Conscious thinking, ghetto though
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I’ll teach you how to build a grow tree
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Life like a bike and pedal slow
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[Interlude]
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Now you’re the voice of the guys on the corners
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And the kids who have no direction, guide them
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Through the trials and the tribulations
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Teach them the world can be accumulated with patience
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[Outro]
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If I die before I wake
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At least I lived life my way
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Hope that you remember me
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Came up fast, bittersweet
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Please prepare me mentally
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‘Fore you take my soul and empty me
