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Brothers, brothers, we all in pain |
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The man of God, he got his Bible but he's in pain |
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The Muslim, he got his Qu'ran, he's in pain |
| [00:24.312][Verse 1: A.G.] |
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I was born in the middle of the darkness |
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Where the hopeless turn to heartless |
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So I wrote this, consider this God's gift |
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A shining light, overcome the hardships |
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Lucky for the chance to do my dance |
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Big L in Amsterdam, fell in love in France |
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Lovers in Japan, catch me if you can |
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A world tour with Diamond my man |
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See me on the Berri Can |
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Spread hope to every man related to the struggle |
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It's a jungle, sometimes it make me wonder |
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About the violence and the hunger |
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So I speak about the blunders, try to teach the younger |
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Dancing in the rain, motivated by the thunder |
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I'm designed to hear tear drops |
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And repeat it when the snare's chopped |
| [01:05.886][Break: Louis Farrakhan] |
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All of us are in pain |
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And do you know, brothers |
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When you're in pain |
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Your brain releases hormones |
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That actually can deaden pain |
| [01:27.262][Verse 2: Chino XL] |
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I'm feeling sentimental over this monumental instrumental |
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Hoping that I don't offend you with my murder menu |
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I'm spitting afflicted non-fiction in the venue |
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Any likeness to persons living or dead are coincidental (Nah) |
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You ain't gotta be a higher scholared psychologist |
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To realise they've replaced good journalists with gossip columnist |
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Young men in colleges wearing their pants androgynous |
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I stay high surrounded by more greenery than botanists |
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I ain't after fame, tell a friend to tell a friend |
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I'm after words like the end of the end |
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They try to stop me every way that they can |
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But lyric fans try to tell 'em Chino's pen will live to kill again |
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For years, hated myself, duct taped my mouth |
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It's weird, cried so much, my tear ducts dried out |
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Aristotle be startled to find out which part of my heart is gone |
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So many sacrificed a lot so we can ride on this art form |
| [02:09.966][Break: Louis Farrakhan] |
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But as long as you, as a man, lay down at night and dream about your greatness |
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But you are never able to manifest how great you are |
| [02:27.110][Verse 3: Chino XL] |
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Hip-hop saved my life from a childhood that was violent |
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Chianardo DiCaprio escaping out of Shutter Island |
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My writings Poseidon that landed me in an insane asylum |
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Deciding what I should rhyme about it or to keep it private |
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Sometimes I find it hard to breath like Colorado's climate |
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Mind so fluid that it could rival B-Real's hydroponic |
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Lyric Jesus, lungs are bionic, sicker than violent vomit |
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Wordsmith on the front line while y'all just stand behind it |
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Rewind it compared to churches' conscious controversies |
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My words clutch your heart like old white racist women clutching their purses |
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When I retire, will rap forget me, kinda like a '60s hippie |
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Or beg me to come back like Prince on Darling Nikki |
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I remember seeing A.G. and Finesse freestyle |
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Wishing that could be me up there, but I was just a juvenile |
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In time I'd become what I'd die for |
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Even the Pope can give up his religion but I can't let hip-hop go |
| [03:15.310][Outro: Louis Farrakhan sample] |
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The pain of being non-productive |
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Makes you seek pleasure that keeps you non-productive |
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Look at it, look at it, brothers |
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Each one of you is in pain |
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We in pain, brothers |
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We live with constant pain |
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Nobody knows our pain but God and us |
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And you know deep down inside, you are as great |
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As any man of greatness that you've heard about, read about or seen in real life |
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You know you are as great as any one of them, possibly greater |
