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[00:00.63]Mr. Blue Collar, yeah, you know what?
[00:09.60]It's time for me to give a testament to where I came from
[00:14.82]The streets of Chicago, Southside
[00:16.63]Yeah, Mr. Blue Collar, I gotta do it like this
[00:25.44]You can take the boy outta slum, can't take slum outta son
[00:28.74]I should be lynched, I'm so high strung
[00:30.91]At 15 my mother tried to have me aborted
[00:33.56]You gotta kill us both doc, I'm not the only one
[00:36.18]It's a package deal, comin' up like a pack of rats
[00:39.26]Fightin' over scraps, the streets is ill
[00:41.39]Take a trip to the city of wind, the city of sin
[00:44.27]My block'll have you born again
[00:46.55]But it ain't like church, life hurts
[00:48.88]Drug raids, she stuffin' rocks down her baby's diapers
[00:50.94]It go the other way too when your mother's on hype
[00:54.12]And you gotta serve her blow 'fore you go to school
[00:56.72]So I spit like a fool to the chorus
[00:59.18]Military jail time all they got for us
[01:01.57]I seen how they deal every Hoover and Jeff Ford
[01:03.94]Lock up all our leaders, let the ghetto eat us
[01:07.47]I'm the ghetto Regis, in Chevy Caprices
[01:09.65]And niggaz that front can get blown to little pieces
[01:12.14]Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know why?
[01:15.30]'Cause it's
[01:16.26]All I do, workin' hard for scratch
[01:18.81]Talk shit get your jaw deattached
[01:21.07]All I do, though I'm still in the streets a bit
[01:24.13]A brother ain't fin' to take no shit
[01:26.88]All I do, lil' buddy, this could get ugly
[01:29.71]Trust me, 'cause this is
[01:31.14]All I do, before I explode, I give you my ode
[01:34.82]In the summer, rain, fall or cold
[01:36.51]Spittin' bars is felt to carve wealth
[01:39.46]And stay hungry to the death, I will starve myself
[01:42.76]To keep what I got and have what I want
[01:44.65]And stay real them my niggaz knowin' half of 'em don't got
[01:47.61]The gift to ball, a rhymers fit
[01:49.87]Thought we still want the finest shit, all I do
[01:52.92]Is take whitey's bread, keep a nice spread
[01:54.99]Hit the club and try to leave without bustin' no heads
[01:58.43]I don't care about a deal, I've been poor all my life
[02:00.52]Cocksucker I ain't afraid of how the shit feel
[02:02.77]Sit still, soak the moment in
[02:05.79]You got somethin' bad to say, nigga hold it in
[02:08.00]You afraid to die? You ain't a soldier then
[02:10.62]Chi-Town stand up, we supposed to win
[02:12.43]Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know why?
[02:16.52]'Cause it's
[02:17.00]All I do, workin' hard for scratch
[02:20.09]Talk shit get your jaw deattached
[02:22.67]All I do, though I'm still in the streets a bit
[02:25.86]A brother ain't fin' to take no shit
[02:27.54]All I do, lil' buddy, this could get ugly
[02:31.51]Trust me, 'cause this is
[02:32.37]All I do, before I explode, I give you my ode
[02:35.81]In the summer, rain, fall or cold
[02:37.92]This for my people locked up for pushin' diesel
[02:41.04]Deliver us from this evil God, all I do
[02:44.34]Or gettin' home from the gig and got a gang full of kids
[02:46.51]You feel the stress like, all I do
[02:48.95]Setbacks, yeah you gotta expect that
[02:51.18]Get back and grind nigga, all I do
[02:52.63]Now you can let yourself breathe
[02:55.66]Throw yo' hands in the air and release say, all I do
[02:59.05]Mr. Blue Collar
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