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[00:04.94]When I heard about the word of mouth it was all out in the open
[00:07.90]Silly saps at battles exchange stories how they've been broken
[00:10.86]They hold in their punchlines, hoping I won't notice
[00:13.17]Then blow in their cover as I'm blowing
[00:14.61]Their minds and show em what dope is
[00:16.18]Control the soul spit from the stage my open pulpit
[00:18.75]Folk and dagger rappers with this jagged edge and full clip
[00:21.41]Speak patterned stammers past the crime scene to find you
[00:24.03]Take a platinum album times two and that's potentially the status
[00:27.31]Break and take factions down into fractions
[00:29.07]Taught Rakim how to rhyme, Cube and Krav scratch and
[00:31.99]Snap fashion conscious trash talk into the door
[00:34.50]Interrogate their entourage and ask em what they came for
[00:37.09]Well, tonight you got bored with those two hundred cable channels
[00:39.52]Decided to come out here and congregate with all the mammals and geeks
[00:43.13]Beautiful people, saints, sinners, and creeps
[00:45.08]That cover charge ain't cheap so get yourself out of your seat
[00:47.55]But really let's get back to the topic again
[00:49.94]Fellas say "ho!" if you're ready for the show to begin
[00:52.50]And ladies say "ow!" if it hurts to smile sometimes
[00:55.59]So frown if you need to, everybody knows the time
[00:58.12]Cause if it's easy it ain't real, not perfect it could be right
[01:00.78]Let's embrace all our flaws here tonight
[01:03.15]Yeah if it's easy it ain't real, not perfect it could be right
[01:05.92]Let's embrace all our flaws here tonight
[01:08.42]Alright stop
[01:09.72]Stand at attention
[01:11.09]Take a frame from right now and freeze the image
[01:13.77]Stuff that picture in your pocket before the future commences
[01:16.55]When you read the book of life you gotta look at every sentence
[01:19.04]Stop
[01:19.81]This moment is perfect so pay attention
[01:21.95]Snap the shot and learn from its dimensions
[01:24.20]And don't be afraid to mention imperfections ever
[01:26.98]Freeze the framework and hold this second here for forever
[01:29.26]I got a chipped tooth and my lungs are scarred
[01:31.58]I never clean my car, I'm not a star
[01:33.54]Using proper grammar is who I are
[01:35.88]Can barely hear with my right ear
[01:37.42]Talk to a microphone and call it a rap career
[01:39.85]I can't go left, can't jump and I'm the dumb type
[01:42.66]Clumsy, I fall on my face like I was drunk (but he ain't drunk)
[01:45.31]Confront strangers and debate on socio-political issues
[01:48.15]Set up a road block in your driveway
[01:49.65]And dare you to try to get through
[01:51.13]Eat too much fast food, own one pair of shoes
[01:53.68]If life is a poker game I'm holding a pair of twos
[01:56.14]I talk a lot, matter of fact after this you'll
[01:58.49]Find me rapping in the back of the parking lot
[02:00.52]Randomly calling shots
[02:01.54]I watch too much TV, I think the characters on Friends
[02:04.28]Are really my friends and possibly that they can see me
[02:06.65]It's a problem I know, I need to try to take it easy
[02:09.23]But then the phone rings, my wife and tells me it's George and Weezy
[02:12.13]Please me, I'm watching My Family Feud in 3D
[02:14.58]It's like they never fired Richard Dawson but no one will believe me
[02:17.15]My bones ache when I'm awake, sometimes it's more than I can take
[02:19.86]But I'll say it all on tape if I think that you can relate
[02:22.57]I'll learn from my mistakes and make my people congregate
[02:25.02]Hold the world on my shoulders until my blessed back breaks
[02:27.61]Here's the weight that carries words over airwaves repeatedly
[02:30.61]God fills all the gaps that you see in me
[02:32.84]Alright stop
[02:34.06]Stand at attention
[02:35.52]Take a frame from right now and freeze the image
[02:38.12]Stuff that picture in your pocket before the future commences
[02:40.93]When you read the book of life you gotta look at every sentence
[02:43.42]Stop
[02:44.27]This moment is perfect so pay attention
[02:46.32]Snap the shot and learn from its dimensions
[02:48.63]And don't be afraid to mention imperfections ever
[02:51.33]Freeze the framework and hold this second here for forever