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[00:22.50]What's the meanin of ghetto fabulous
[00:24.13]Not ridin the back of the bus
[00:25.57]I'm a revolutionary antagonist
[00:27.20]Some playas is mad at us for just doin our music out of love
[00:30.19]Some underground heads is hatin cause we have fun at clubs
[00:32.89]I'm probably on some government list for my rhymin
[00:35.42]You a fool if you don't think they already tapped your line
[00:37.84]Medicine is big business so my remedies is herbal
[00:40.47]It's music is for the people so we Reflection Eternal
[00:43.10]Listen, you hear the difference between science and science fiction
[00:45.76]We blow it out like if you leave on every appliance in the kitchen
[00:48.41]at once, still rolling kind bud in Cuban blunts
[00:50.74]On the corner watchin how kids comin to Brooklyn for they fronts
[00:53.42]Niggas run past what they need chasing after what they want
[00:55.90]Fuckin chumps, you walk down the street and get jumped
[00:58.38]Brooklyn cats like to bubble out of town no lookin back
[01:01.04]When you a ghetto chef you mastered the art of cookin crack
[01:03.64]Some get caught sleepin on the Mother City so when they go
[01:06.27]They come back as tales of niggas we used to know
[01:08.90]Never looked up to see the stars in all they heavenly glory
[01:11.32]Just straight ahead cause the peripheral is buildings with mad stories
[01:14.00]Not floors but dramas is played out, shorties get laid out
[01:17.16]like respect and fade out like TV sets
[01:19.09]into the banks of our memories (let it be) we'll never forget you
[01:21.73]Lyin on your deathbed askin for God to bless you
[01:24.42]Good mourning, good afternoon, good night
[01:27.72]What have you done with your life?
[01:29.25]Everybody time comes to be embraced by the light
[01:31.88]You only scared to die when you ain't livin right, man
[01:34.89]I'm puttin up a hellafied fight
[01:44.36]I need you all to be clear on exactly what I'm sayin
[01:47.53]With your attention span I understand that I ain't playin
[01:50.05]You mistaken if you somehow think it's just me you facin
[01:52.73]Starin me down while your enemy is standin adjacent
[01:55.24]My heart is racin but I know just what I stand for
[01:57.67]We chasin death carelessly like +Jessica+, I +Care Moore+
[02:00.27]Who said, "Just because no one can understand how you speak
[02:02.99]don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep"
[02:05.38]In case you die in your sleep you ask the Lord for a blessin
[02:08.09]Sometimes they sneak up so quiet that the silence is deafenin
[02:10.77]You'll never know who the assassin is until it's your time to go
[02:13.31]Your life is flashin, askin for forgiveness but you move too slow
[02:15.97]Now the people that you love bear the pain that you once harbored
[02:18.47]You was livin for yourself so you could never be a martyr
[02:20.98]Life is hard, death is harder; you somebody baby father
[02:23.51]Someone's lover, son of your mother, somebody brother
[02:26.13]Somebody nigga, now your spirit in the air like a whisper
[02:28.69]Hearin your name mentioned when we pourin out some liquor
[02:31.22]The days go by quicker and the nights don't seem to differ
[02:33.88]It's gettin cold, so I shivered and asked my soul to be delivered
[02:36.51]Good mourning, good afternoon, good night
[02:39.83]What have you done with your life?
[02:41.52]Everybody time comes to be embraced by the light
[02:44.05]You only scared to die when you ain't livin right, man
[02:47.16]I'm puttin up a hellafied fight
[02:56.05]Yo, the time come for everybody
[03:00.60]It ain't somethin' you can really prepare for
[03:04.89]Yo, yo, Mad Duke, rock rock on and
[03:09.62]Curtis Mayfield, rock rock on and
[03:12.29]Grover Washington, rock rock on and
[03:14.90]My Aunt Hazel, rock rock on and
[03:17.44]Big L, rock rock on and
[03:19.88]Freaky Tah rock rock on and
[03:22.52]Jerome Green, rock rock on and
[03:25.06]Slang Ton, rock rock on and
[03:27.78]We celebrate life