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Verse 1
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
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Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
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Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brook
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lyn - where you coming from?
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Manhattan South Bend Al bany
Brooklyn - where you coming from?
Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
Verse 2
York to wherever you at
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I live a charmed life
We going back in the years
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Imagining if my whole world what
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Where you coming from
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Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at
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This is autobio graphical taking you back
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And I still find new ways
to recognize shine
It's like light gets better with age
The way a song sounds
better on stage
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with each page
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What before the first bar was written
A first verse was spittin
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was bullshittin
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Leann Aunt Mimi
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To make a long story short it goes
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Port- au- Prince Knoxville Anvan love
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and the city that never sleeps
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From thought to finish I was born
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just a couple of weeks late
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Stayed home longer just to make
sure everything was on straight
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All systems go cut the umbilical cord
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earth Manhattan to turf
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For what its worth my mum
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held me down one deep
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Pops was absentee but
minds you don't sleep
It took her feelings to raise me
lean taught me how to read
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By the time I went to school
I was in high speed
taught me how to add with
Dried up black eyed peas
on the kitchen table
And coming home to a mothers
love and good care
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always enough
like she had one rule
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Not to mention lean taught me how
to play the piano and then
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out
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in south ben
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Grandpops a bartender at a country club
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rapid was living it up
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Me and granny watch ing
??? football golden blue
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team and them be
's too
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Some say I got my sense
of humour from her
Brookyn, new york to wherever you at
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With no time for refrains I barely
got enough time to explain
How hip hop captivated my brain
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That was cool but I left Z100 and WGLJ
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To find bliss with real s and kiss
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but j- live was sparked
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Making pause mix demos with
my main man mark
Playing ball in the park,
there was other heads too
I was the herb of the crew,
then I learned what to do
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started battling fools
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G nice my friendly rival at the lunch table
He started spark at a dark
with damian and I date
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I was down for a bit but that
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was just a DJ
Verse 16
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Back and forth from the tables
to the pad and the pen
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Then I had to do a bit upstate but wait
I wasn't incarcerated but college educated
Verse 17
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As soon the Albany I was a full time
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student part time emcee
At the time raw shack was
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the place to be
Living on judge Clark
Started building with gods
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ledge was
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I went from Mecca to Albany a student
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I had this rhyme reacher
Verse 19
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We recognized what what's happening
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I'm making records and I'm winning
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Brooklyn, New York to wherever
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you at
This is autobiographical taking you back
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Not my whole entire life
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but just a slice of the pie
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A few pieces of the who what when where's and whys
Outro 1
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