[00:10.93]Never think just for
[00:12.55]Shits and giggles
[00:13.61]Do we spit sylable riddles
[00:14.80]For bits and kibbles
[00:16.05]So chics can wiggles and shake
[00:17.61]Cause this image is fake
[00:18.62]I'm tryin hard to relate
[00:19.87]In a place filled with so much hate
[00:21.76]Some brothers debate
[00:22.69]Some love or some hate
[00:23.96]Whatever the case
[00:24.77]Its all about the choices you make
[00:26.45]That's the reason your balloon'll deflate
[00:28.15]But to relate
[00:29.28]We tryin' to take rap back to it's primitive state wait
[00:32.10]No overnight success or runnin' with vets
[00:34.61]Just pure unadulterated work progress
[00:37.37]I'm willin' to bet the farm
[00:38.69]You'd give your right arm
[00:40.07]For a piece of the pie
[00:41.26]Ask yourself Why
[00:42.58]If you only knew
[00:43.52]The trials and tribulations we been through
[00:45.35]
[00:47.66]But if you only knew
[00:49.29]We're real people homey just like you
[00:51.47]
[00:53.65]We humble but don't mistake us for some corny a** crew
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[00:58.78]What we do is try to give you what you ain't used to
[01:02.15]Soul music somethin' we can all relate to
[01:04.10]Yo yo I ams what I am and that's all I can be
[01:06.62]Uh no more no less what you're seein' is me
[01:09.38]Akil the emcee dubbed the U-I-S-C uh
[01:12.67]Wise intelligent God did bless me
[01:14.92]Yes we rock up off the S-B freshly
[01:17.60]Especially dangerous rough and deadly
[01:20.16]The pimp positioner tip the Richter Scale
[01:23.22]Alone we sink together we sail and prevail
[01:25.97]The rum raisin comin through guns blazin'
[01:28.21]Some of you duns runnin' ones with none savin'
[01:30.77]Complainin' me and my clan are unscathen
[01:33.20]
[01:33.78]From the soul comes somethin' amazin'
[01:35.53](talking in background)
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[02:07.50]Yo how many times I got to hear
[02:09.44]Some fanatic in my ear
[02:10.69]Tellin' me I got to keep it real
[02:12.31]When they ain't payin' my bills
[02:13.31]Or feedin' my kids judgin' me on how I live
[02:15.84]If my crib in the hood or if it's up in the hills
[02:18.58]Have you forgetten who you are
[02:19.95]Oh you think yo a star
[02:21.22]Why you frontin' (You ain't nothin')
[02:22.78]You went from nothin' to somethin'
[02:24.02]But somethin' means nothin' if ya people still wantin'
[02:26.47]And ya got money and givin' them nothin'
[02:28.80]Flossin' and frontin'
[02:29.92]Ya game of sharades
[02:30.81]The way you behave
[02:31.75]The image you save
[02:32.81]Yeah brother that's one big parade
[02:34.37]I'm sick of your ways
[02:35.55]I'm sittin here spittin a phrase
[02:37.05]Next time they smile and they wave
[02:38.57]They probably be with a gaze
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[03:05.38]Soul soul soul soul soul