Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
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Yes, pay full
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attention
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This is for gangsters,
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this is for gentlemen
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There's two kind of people out there
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I happen to be the boss type
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I'm a product of my environment
Blame the streets,
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I am what they made me
My pops came from Bed -Stuy,
my mom came from Africa
I'm old nigga if you know
what I mean
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They hooked up in the 70s
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By the time I was seven,
my mom left my pop
And we moved to the south side
of Yonkers, New York
Then my mom remarried,
had my little brother Gary
let me gather my thoughts
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I was out of my mind
My step pops been like me,
beat me out of my mind
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From 10 and 11 the same,
He still had to hit me
Garf had Adidas and Pumas,
I coulda had a pair
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My mommy said wait till Christmas,
If you heard I was broke,
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dawg, it wasn't a rumor
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I said, gangsters, ride with me
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Gentlemen, live your life, live it up
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Cause gangsters die,
we all gon' die
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It's only a matter of time,
the clock ticks
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I said, gangsters, ride with me
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Gentlemen, live your life, live it up
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Cause gangsters die,
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we all gon' die
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It was 1986 and I was 12 years old
That's right around the time
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when crack came out
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It was the best thing that happened to me
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I swore to God cause I was getting
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everything that I was asking about
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First we started off bagging up
copping our own bass
Bring it home, put it in bottles,
sit in Serato
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Drink a OE and scramble like
it wasn't tomorrow
I'm getting kicked out of junior high
thinking I'm grown
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Mom said I had an F again,
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Nigga get a lil' loot and he groomed,
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soup in the dome
Fucked me up first
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I said gangstas ride with me
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Gentlemen lift your light, live it up
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Cause gangstas die
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only a matter of time
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I said gangsters, ride with me
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Gentlemen, lift your flight, live it up
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Cause gangsters die
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But y won't die, only a matter of time
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I'm leaving out a lot of shit,
My alcoholic background
and wealth and motels
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Ab use that I had to take,
How the fuck I'm gon' bond with you?
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And the cases I got up to date
Told you that I bust the eight,
got niggas I can't name
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Little brother gone, but I got a bigger angel
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don't let these niggas change you
and the past is what make the man
The future, I can't tell you
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I ain't God or no Superman
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No, it ain't an S on my chest,
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Cause in life, the deepest lesson is death
I'm determined and
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I'm disciplined
and destined to rep
I'm a gangsta and a gentleman,
When I pass, I'm like gas
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Motherfuckers, cause I'ma leave a stink
that you'll never forget
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I said gangsters,
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Gentlemen, live your life, live it up
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Cause gangsters die or y
'all won't die
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It's only a matter of time
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I said gangsters, ride with me
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Gentlemen, live your life, live it up
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Cause gangsters die or
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It's only a matter of time
Let me tell you, this gangsta and this gentleman shit,
it's about being humble,
but at the same time,
let niggas know it's real.
And when I say be real, I can flip,
but at the same time,
I can talk to a nigga at
the same time.
If he don't respect that,
then you got to show him you're a gangster.
He respect that, you show him you're a gentleman,
because you respect him as a man.
That's what a gangster
and a gentleman is about.
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