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[00:21.23]If I die before I wake
[00:23.67]At least I lived life my way
[00:26.48]Hope that you remember me
[00:29.31]Came up fast, bittersweet
[00:32.01]Please prepare me mentally
[00:34.85]‘Fore you take my song on MTV
[00:38.86]Now that you’re no longer a lord that’s trapped
[00:41.39]You have graduated to the Hood Pope
[00:43.63]You have made it to represent your people
[00:46.03]Show them another way
[00:47.67]Be the voice of the people who couldn’t make it out the hood
[00:49.76]Make sure my family good, my ma still in the hood
[00:52.51]I ain’t rich like they think cause I copped me one mink
[00:55.15]They think I got me a house with a big couch and a gold sink
[00:58.18]With a model ***** with a gold ring, big ass fish in a fish tank
[01:01.03]Haha, you laughing, just put me in my casket
[01:03.97]I ain’t even into nagging, it's what it is, I’m passing
[01:06.80]And though times is hard now, your success awaits them
[01:10.48]I’m no different what y’all are saying
[01:13.13]Ferg made it out? Well, I can play that game
[01:15.92]You’re not exempt from the growing chain
[01:18.11]*****s forget who’s afraid to change
[01:21.71]You’re the trapped lord, I will remain
[01:24.45]Hood Pope, I’ma teach these confused folks how to maneuver
[01:26.89]Through folks and attention, get you choked, you know
[01:29.48]Slim model girls sniffing the coke
[01:30.97]Fiend on the block sniffin’ the ****
[01:32.56]I wanna help, I don’t know
[01:33.77]Tell me duck in her ****
[01:35.47]How you hood in a pope
[01:36.76]Conscious thinking, ghetto though
[01:38.20]I’ll teach you how to build a grow tree
[01:39.83]Life like a bike and pedal slow
[01:41.72]Now you’re the voice of the guys on the corners
[01:43.46]And the kids who have no direction, guide them
[01:47.00]Through the trials and the tribulations
[01:49.16]Teach them the world can be accumulated with patience
[01:52.57]If I die before I wake
[01:55.12]At least I lived life my way
[01:57.91]Hope that you remember me
[02:00.59]Came up fast, bittersweet
[02:03.33]Please prepare me mentally
[02:06.32]‘Fore you take my song on MTV
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