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Well yo, they to say that Dray was a motherfuckin bum Cos when it to profit, son I really wasn't gettin none The wildest that you ever saw used to call me Petey Wheezthrow, the devil's son-in-law Now I'm in the shit, a fly I was buggin robbing to stealin to dealin, yo, and even muggin Sellin cocaine in the high school it slick I kept the balms up in some tennis balls I used to run across the bridge with my I packed a tray-8, in dem days I was for keeps I to roll around my hat and all day for a prey that we could rob on Broadway Stickin niggas for their jewels if worthy
Made a couple of hits and then we jetted to Jersey '86 And '87 was the Had the Gucci hat, rock the raccoon fur coat Keep em in disguise and don't ya blink See yeah Saturday, we robbed nigga at the rink The beats was always up at my rest Askin "Does a certain live at this address? Yes?" The spot was hotter than the sun, without a I had the choice to go to school and get the out I hit the South just like a cos I was stranded Virginia State in '88, you that's where I landed I stand it, shit was feelin strange I made it range but yo, my shit was just about the dough
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Yo a move, peep the flav Cos I'm a take you back to the of brown envelope trays Twenty-something years ago as I to recollect A newborn shorty had to cheques off Bushwick the days, Pops shot to get forth the and fifth Damn, fam got to From the flo' down four flights to the sixth This was around the smokin reefer was the shit But now the a little bigger I was the first man in the fam so it's plans for a Had my clan from my building and my man from Wit me when we hit the behind 2-57 babysittin, Pop's on the hustle 54 Block was on lock, bust a
Game rip, some slipped and got greedy me, another "rest in peace" in graffiti But I couldn't resist a few fights and petty Cos now I'm 'cross town in the My nights are a little quieter but amongst the schemes for the fun Where sons run and blow slums with the bums And motherfuckers don't I love the street game so I stashed the leaf by the air You tell me shit, evil was more eager than a beaver it fresh, double-parked in the Caesar But I got with this behavior-type flavor And do Moms a favor, go to school and get this fuckin So what's the cos now I'm all in At Virginia State, now let the begin
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It was '89 and yo, I'm stayin out of I'm runnin with nigga named Books from Crown Heights toe-up from the flow-up, we're drinkin til we throw up We're thinkin we can blow up so to class we show up Well nigga so what? You fucked the holdup and whatever's Then the leathers, son I got to get my shit together Gettin drunk, flunked in class is what's the function Smokin blunts-in, son we need to stop We're huntin, Virginia didn't have shit for us why we broke out with Dice and blitzed into blue chorus Gettin busy, flippin rhymes on the The deal we was from styles we was freakin
But yo, now '91 and me and son we got to scram (Aiyo it was a rap contest, we couldn't handle) And yo, got ta happen or I'm a get the pappin We got the blueprints to this new style of Packin skills from the sewer, I we had a shot Gotta go and blow the and show them niggas how we rock, what? If PMD is judgin it, yeah the crew all that money on that business as usual (Tip tip tip) Tip, we flip the tongue and wilin They hit us with the digits to the in Long Island So, we the Henny and my men we got swayz And never lookin back, that's how we thinkin
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