Key: B minor•
Intro 1
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My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
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Used to be Dame and Biggs' brother
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No I.D. my mentor, now let the story begin
Verse 1
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Picture us in the mall,
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Yeah, that's what we'll yell out, yell out
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J-A-Y, and 'Ye so shy
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Now he won't even step to his idol to say hi
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Back of my mind, "He could change your life
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to your friends back at the gig"
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But he got me out my momma crib
Chorus 1
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Big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
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Used to be Dame and Biggs' brother
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now let the story begin, begin
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Let the story begin
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why don't you wave your hands?
Verse 2
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Fresh off the plane, plane, I'm off Baseline
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'Round the same time of that Blueprint 1
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I'd play my little songs in that old back room
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But by The Black Album, I was blacking out
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Partyin' S.O.B.'s and we had packed a crowd
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Not only did I not get a chance to spit it
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Carline told me I could buy two tickets
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And kept little brother at bay, at a distance
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But everything that I felt was more bogus
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I guess I'll understand when I get more older
Chorus 2
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My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
Em
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Used to be Dame and Biggs' brother
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now let the story begin, begin
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Em
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Let the story begin
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why don't you wave your hands?
Verse 3
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Not only a client, the Presidito, hola, Hovito
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The game gettin' foul so here's a free throw
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I was always on the other
side of the peephole
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Then I dropped "Jesus Walks"
now I'm on the steeple
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"New Jack City"—got to keep my brother
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But to be number one I'ma beat my brother
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On that "Diamonds" remix I swore I spazzed
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Sibling rivalry, only I could see
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It was the pride in me that was drivin' me
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At the Grammys I said, "I inspired me"
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But my big brother who I always tried to be
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When I kicked a flow it was like pick-and-roll
Verse 4
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And my shit was more like a finger roll
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And them hoes at the show gonna mingle,
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I told Jay I did a song with Coldplay
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Next thing I know he got a song with Coldplay
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Back in my mind I'm like, "Damn, no way"
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Translate, español: "No way, José"
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Then I went and told Jay Brown
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My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
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So here's a few words from your kid brother
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A idol in my eyes, god of the game
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Heart of the City, Roc-a-Fella chain
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Never be the same, never be another
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Number one, Young Hov, also my big brother
Chorus 3
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My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
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Used to be Dame and Biggs' brother
Outro 1
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Toomp killed this shit
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