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Hey kids, gather around, it's Wyclef and Melky I got a story to tell, we go
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Hey yo, hey yo, my pen's in my hand, OK, what I write next? Oh yeah, and if you don't know, success brings I'm vexed, my phone rings, caller from Jeff The say, "If you accept, say yes" "Yes, the deal, son?" "Yo, I got bad news" Yo, by the tone of his voice, I heard the street blues "The friends will make you, them too can you They an execution like Fu Manchu" "Who?" "You know the character from channel 5 (wahoo)" "Slow down, man, Jeff, I'm you" "Hey yo, cousin Rohann..." "Uh-huh" "Who to sell bang" "Uh-huh" "DT's found his hand in the of Bennigans" "What?" "In a plastic bag a note attached" "Saying what?" "A million and a half or he be back" "So meet me by the Bridge, 12:00 sharp" "If not, at the funeral, you play the harp" Yo, why they wanna start and make me my part? Don't they know like Sting, I can turn this murder into I into my car, there's gotta be a joke backed up, who's in town, the Pope? S-s-s-s-someone the horn, I turned and looked left To my surprise, it was my sis, Sedeck
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You're shootin' in the opposite I'm thinkin', "Should I fire or hold on ammunition On wig transition?" My mission, Take 6, is to spread love But all you mugs got me wearin' black gloves You up in my face, I see the fear in your You gonna feel the like a grown man gettin' circumcised Shalom, shalom, pardon my But my right hand's on throat, massaging you to death You provoke the cycle, call lookin' in the mirror, well, I'm in your window, oh oh You hear me Urkel, your will turn purple Like the color, you holler, bawlin' for mother No-one hears you even though you You used to walk around the with the daily rock Things done since your spark got hot Now you got your knot wocked with your own Glock
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