[00:00.00]If It Wasn't for You - Handsome Boy Modeling School/Starchild Excalibur/De La Soul
[00:07.00]What makes you special
[00:08.26]Where you come from
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[00:10.58]This is one of the most
[00:12.03]Exciting stories ever told
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[00:14.35]Because it's about you
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[00:16.40]And you are one of the most
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[00:20.17]Things in the world you
[00:22.35]She ride cus her testament
[00:23.38]Has been day one
[00:24.69]A ni**a got trust cus she been day one
[00:26.58]They ones done build a fam Bruce Lee
[00:28.32]So we K-I-Sed the BS goodbye
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[00:31.75]Damsel in distress so I stress good guy
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[00:34.43]Tarzan and Jane more like
[00:36.25]Bonnie and Karem
[00:37.29]Could you be my sugar water
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[00:39.33]Tonic and cream
[00:40.25]Put the dean in my yard
[00:41.42]Like religion and king
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[00:43.08]And ding diamond you a sight
[00:45.73]Like unidentified rims
[00:46.75]Spinning in the night
[00:47.82]Me with out your balance
[00:49.07]Just wouldn't sit right
[00:50.22]Like written wouldn't be
[00:51.32]Past tense without ten
[00:52.18]If it wasn't for you
[00:54.18]If it wasn't for you
[00:55.52]If it wasn't for you
[00:56.83](I need you)
[00:58.45]If it wasn't for you
[00:59.75]If it wasn't for you
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[01:02.02]If it wasn't for you
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[01:03.76](I need you)
[01:04.33]Hey because of you my little lady named fame
[01:06.30]People spot me like nerves spot pain
[01:07.87]
[01:08.49]Put the S on my chest and inside my veins
[01:11.11]Before that this darkie had to
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[01:15.29]Smile for them to see me
[01:17.12]Now them same kids that used to
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[01:19.74]Diss wanna be me
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[01:21.32]Due to me being down with you
[01:22.77]Hooked up 82' plus 6
[01:23.87]When you gave me my fix
[01:25.14]You fixed my house and banking accounts
[01:26.47]You fixed me up with too
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[01:29.86]Many women to count
[01:31.00]Only right for you to have
[01:33.28]At least when you was here for me
[01:35.48]The world cheered form you
[01:36.49]If it wasn't for you
[01:37.52]If it wasn't for you
[01:38.95]If it wasn't for you
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[01:41.46](I need you)
[01:42.04]If it wasn't for you
[01:43.68]If it wasn't for you
[01:44.75]If it wasn't for you
[01:46.05](I need you)
[01:46.66]Pen you my muthaf**ka
[01:47.39]I'm a hold you like piss
[01:48.90]Even when the itchy burn
[01:50.05]Make me wanna let go
[01:51.08]There you go smudgin see
[01:52.44]Actin mad funny
[01:52.99]But you kissin loose leafs so
[01:54.39]I can't be mad
[01:55.28]You my confidant when I couldn't
[01:56.78]Tell pops that report card came
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[01:59.61]You signed off with me
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[02:01.32]So when the checks come you'll
[02:03.22]Be signin off with me
[02:04.36]But when I'm dead and gone
[02:05.71]Will you sign off
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[02:07.42]Ooh Papermate you light like
[02:08.63]Paper weight
[02:08.98]But you pack ink can make
[02:10.95]Tattoos turn p**sy
[02:11.82]And when it's mush time you
[02:13.12]Be there like a man
[02:14.15]In my hand spillin my heart
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[02:15.94]With you blood
[02:16.62]If it wasn't for you
[02:18.57]If it wasn't for you
[02:19.82]If it wasn't for you
[02:20.80](I need you)
[02:21.56]If it wasn't for you
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[02:23.40]If it wasn't for you
[02:24.69]If it wasn't for you
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[02:26.27](I need you)
[02:27.51]You're my first born
[02:28.28]My lil Capricorn kid
[02:29.69]Slid in this world at 1 pound 8 oz
[02:32.21]My little miracle baby
[02:32.93]Grown in to a little lady
[02:35.38]So fast like pressing the gas
[02:36.85]While the tape bounce
[02:38.29]Through you me and your
[02:40.41]Grandfather grew closer
[02:41.08]I understand now all he try
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[02:43.29]To give for me
[02:44.45]I wanna give it to you the same way
[02:46.63]But sometimes four short
[02:47.58]And you still live for me
[02:49.00]And just want you to know
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[02:50.73]I may not show all the right
[02:52.62]Feelings or say the right words
[02:54.27]But you're my little black diamond
[02:55.54]And always shining in my heart
[02:57.09]And that's way beyond words
[02:59.80]If it wasn't for you
[03:00.86]If it wasn't for you
[03:01.76]If it wasn't for you
[03:02.84](I need you)
[03:03.53]If it wasn't for you
[03:05.10]
[03:05.63]If it wasn't for you
[03:07.01]If it wasn't for you
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[03:08.54](I need you)
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[03:09.65]You've been with me on the inside homie
[03:11.14]Puff life in me ever since I was a knee high
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[03:14.09]I knew I had heart
[03:15.05]Ain't gang related but you relative to blood
[03:16.89]AB negative you represent love
[03:17.92]Though you break like Pringles
[03:19.08]Your heroic in your size
[03:20.35]You make David beat Goliath
[03:21.67]You heart beaker
[03:22.42]Broads love you on Valentines day
[03:23.88]Quaker brought beats to my
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[03:26.35]Chest before Hip-Hop
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[03:30.07]If it wasn't for you
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[03:33.59]If it wasn't for you
[03:35.12]If it wasn't for you
[03:36.22](I need you)
[03:36.78]If it wasn't for you
[03:37.98]If it wasn't for you
[03:38.93]If it wasn't for you
[03:39.99](I need you)
[03:41.33]If it wasn't for you
[03:42.27]If it wasn't for you
[03:43.80]If it wasn't for you
[03:44.93](I need you)
[03:45.87]If it wasn't for you
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[03:47.74]If it wasn't for you
[03:48.96]If it wasn't for you
[03:50.58](I need you)