[Intro: Kanye West]
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Oh, yeah
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I got the perfect song for the kids to sing
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And all my people thats—
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[Chorus: Kanye West]
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Drug dealin just to get by
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Stack your money til it get sky high
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We wasnt sposed to make it past twenty-five
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Jokes on you, we still alive
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Throw your hands up in the sky and say
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“We dont care what people say” (Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh)
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[Verse 1: Kanye West]
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If this is your first time hearin this
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You are about to experience somethin so cold, man
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We never had nothin handed, took nothin for granted
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Took nothin from no man, man, Im my own man
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But as a shorty, I looked up to the dope man
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Only adult man I knew that wasnt broke, man
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Flicking Starter coats, man—man, you dont know, man
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We dont care what people say
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This is for my niggas outside all winter
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‘Cause this summer, they aint finna say, “Next summer, Im finna…”
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Sittin in the hood like community colleges
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This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship
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‘Cause aint no tuition for having no ambition
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And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home
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So we forced to sell crack, rap, and get a job
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You gotta do somethin, man, your ass is grown
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[Chorus: Kanye West with Choir]
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Drug dealin just to get by
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Stack your money til it get sky high
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Kids, sing! Kids, sing!
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We wasnt sposed to make it past twenty-five
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Jokes on you, we still alive
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Throw your hands up in the sky and say
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“We dont care what people say”
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[Verse 2: Kanye West]
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This second verse is for my dogs working nine to five that still hustle
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‘Cause a nigga cant shine off $6.55
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And everybody sellin makeup, Jacobs
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And bootleg tapes just to get they cake up
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We put shit on layaway, then come back
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We claim other people kids on our income tax
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We take that money, cop work, then push packs to get paid
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And we dont care what people say
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Mama say she wanna move South
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Scratching lottery tickets, eyes on a new house
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‘Round the same time, Doe ran up in dude house
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Couldnt get a job
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So since he couldnt get work, he figured hed take work
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The drug game bulimic, its hard to get weight
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So niggas money is homo, its hard to get straight
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But we gon keep bakin til the day we get cake
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And we dont care what people say, my niggas—
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[Chorus: Kanye West & Choir, Kanye West]
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Drug dealin just to get by (Yeah)
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Stack your money til it get sky high
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Kids, sing! Kids, sing!
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We wasnt sposed to make it past twenty-five
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Jokes on you, we still alive (Alive)
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Throw your hands up in the sky and say (Uh-huh, yeah)
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“We dont care what people say” (Yeah, yeah, ugh)
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[Verse 3: Kanye West]
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You know the kids gon act a fool
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When you stop the programs for after school
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And they DCFS, some of em dyslexic
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They favorite 50 Cent song “12 Questions”
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We scream: “Rocks, blows, weed, park,” see, now we smart
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We aint retards the way teachers thought
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Hold up, hold fast, we make more cash
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Now, tell my mama I belong in that slow class
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Its bad enough we on welfare
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You tryna put me on the school bus with the space for the wheelchair
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Im tryna get the car with the chromey wheels here
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You tryna cut our lights out like we dont live here
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Look what was handed us, fathers abandoned us
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When we get them hammers, go on, call the ambulance
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Sometimes, I feel no one in this world understands us
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But we dont care what people say, my niggas—
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[Chorus: Kanye West & Choir, Kanye West]
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Drug dealin just to get by
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Stack your money til it get sky high
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Kids, sing! Kids, sing!
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We wasnt sposed to make it past twenty-five
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Jokes on you, we still alive
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Throw your hands up in the sky and say
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“We dont care what people say”
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[Produced by Kanye West]
