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[00:02.00](Tech N9ne)
[00:02.54]Free your mind, and remember
[00:07.52]Winners are not people who never fail
[00:11.50]But people who never quit
[00:15.73]All I ever wanted was to sell
[00:19.34]Records to the people make a lot of mil', yessir
[00:24.09]Rap to me, it was the holy grail
[00:27.47]I'm gonna go and do it, I'm gonna never gonna fail
[00:29.57]Yeah, but first I gotta make it out of hell
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[00:31.88]Wake up and I see crime
[00:33.72]All of us we on it's eat time
[00:35.61]My homies love me yelling "Peace N9ne"
[00:37.35]At the same time, throwing B signs
[00:39.74]Throwing em back and repping the street, I'm
[00:41.44]Doing music and writing beast rhymes
[00:43.25]But my V-Slimes, had no weak minds
[00:45.32]Got with the music, started a group and we shine
[00:47.58]Music gave us hella hope
[00:49.27]Made it up out of the bangin' and sellin' ****
[00:51.29]We were stronger than a bottle of Yoke
[00:53.21]Till one of our members found a kid to grope
[00:55.43]Then your honor gave the peddy the rope
[00:57.33]Losing a man, the band began to slope
[00:59.24]Never did think a plan was damned to croak
[01:01.29]So doing it solo-dole stands the G.O.A.T
[01:03.55]Started making hella LP's
[01:05.51]2000, although with five, felt free
[01:07.45]Because of the hand the label dealt me
[01:09.38]But in '06 Fontana helped us melt cheese
[01:11.47]Number one independent gonna be spending our time and funds, in a minute
[01:15.06]That's what the government want the sums, then I send it
[01:17.23]In a couple of months I'm done and replenished
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[01:19.40]Everywhere I go, I'm selling out the show
[01:21.55]Around the world I kill em and everybody know
[01:23.39]Whenever we hit the studio and Tecca Nina drop, hot
[01:27.53]Even though I will go toe to toe if somebody bang on me
[01:30.17]But I'm rolling in the dough and I'm really respected and protected
[01:32.60]Chances of me getting shot, not
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[01:35.64]Everyone loving the Tech
[01:36.64]Publishin', I get a check
[01:37.77]Loving the cities that with me, the people that call me the best
[01:39.59]I don't have any regret, but it's a bit of neglect
[01:41.55]Missing my babies I love em and none of leaving me yet
[01:43.42]Feeling good like a villain should
[01:45.55]In a mansion, but I'm still in hoods
[01:47.58]Not like Trayvon, J's on
[01:49.34]Khaki shorts with a red tee like I will and could
[01:51.69]I can conceal it my permits say
[01:53.61]If evil happens to swerve this way
[01:55.76]Hope nobody deserves quick spray
[01:57.76]I feel an angelic surge this day
[01:59.82]They feeling my songs
[02:00.97]Been doing it long
[02:01.85]They want me to sell 'em my CD right outta my home
[02:03.82]Cos I'm in the zone
[02:04.82]I'm putting em on in front of the store when a couple of police won't leave me alone
[02:08.01]Why they tripping?
[02:08.90]I fit the description
[02:09.86]It's two of them rushing me I'm on a solo mission
[02:11.79]To get people to listen, but they pushing and kicking me
[02:13.57]I'm on the ground when they telling me, "Cause of a gun suspicion"
[02:15.94]It was in my pocket, ain't trying pop it
[02:17.72]When they scared of a brother with a gun no one can stop it
[02:19.80]Then one of em lost it, and then I was shot quick
[02:21.56]Officers took me to heaven, I'm dead and with multiple rockets
[02:23.80]Didn't matter I was good and living inside a mansion next to ball players
[02:27.63]'Cause of the move he made was drastic now I lay in a casket carried by my pallbearers
[02:31.57]Fears what I see, making em kill a G
[02:33.54]Rotten apple in the batch; don't be tell the rest to flee
[02:35.75]This happened in Baton, R-O-U-G-E, even I fit the description
[02:38.69]What if it was me?
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[02:39.75](Krizz Kaliko)
[02:39.76]What if it was me
[02:41.56]What if I never got the one chance to be
[02:45.60]Everything and everywhere I go, I wouldn't see
[02:49.73]If by your hand you took that from me
[02:53.50]But what if it were me?
[02:55.61]Laying right there
[02:57.37]I'll never get up again, it's so unfair
[03:01.49]My babies cry out
[03:03.53]You never cared
[03:05.49]Things that we do make each other so scared
[03:09.36]So what if it was you there?
[03:15.44](Should I just) Take your life
[03:17.53](Should I bust) Make your wife widowed, withered, hugging the pillow
[03:23.54]The scent of you still on her
[03:25.70]Spirit she feels on her
[03:27.60]The whole world weeps
[03:29.49]Blood we all spill on her
[03:31.60]And I know, it's ill will, the pill's hard to swallow
[03:37.65]How should I feel when the man follows?
[03:41.68]The words you said saved me, he crazy
[03:45.09]And you saved my life, take my life
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[03:47.72]I gotta fight, all of the night with cops, crips, bloods with sore fists
[03:51.72]I gotta fight, all of the night with cops, crips, bloods with sore fists
[03:55.64]I gotta fight, all of the night with cops, crips, bloods with sore fists
[03:59.75](Tech N9ne)
[03:59.76]I gotta fight, all of the night with cops, crips, bloods with sore fists and them Nazis