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Verse 1
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Walking into some Los
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Angeles neighborhoods
these days
is like walking into a police state.
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at least four people have died
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in gang -related violence.
Nearly a hundred times that many have died
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in the past year.
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And more than half the victims
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were innocent bystanders.
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Gangs have existed in Los
Angeles for generations
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to exert their control over
dollar market.
have become entrepreneurs
And despite an all -out effort to stop them,
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business is booming. Okay,
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okay! Okay! Okay! That's not necessary, man. Money to talk.
And the guy's making way
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too. That's him.
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his hat with him.
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Hustlin', that's what a youngster
Rhymin', when I was younger had problems
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probably stole from you
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yeah all in my veins
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Props to the homies on the block
Cause yeah,
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we came up the same
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that used to be on the streets
Nowadays locked up,
stronger than dope,
right out of California,
Laughin' at these
on my own side
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Hey, they comin' off,
chasin' forms
Nowadays, just part of the norm
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Even got people watchin' the G
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Worse than these motherfuckin' rappers
in the gang
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That's what I was born with,
Wouldn't let me go home for weeks
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Addiction, that goes for makin'
that paper and rappin'
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Motivation for makin' it happen
as many as 600 street gangs
in Los Angeles County
take them to jail for anything
and everything we can.
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Prevents that particular guy
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from get ting into anything and it kind of
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keeps other guys off the street for a while
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But never would I say
How many homeboys
have been killed
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Less than a year, like five? Criminals
at the age of twelve
Violent, used to fight,
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that's the type of behavior to slay
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Leaving my own mother dismayed,
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Hustling, making paper
from flipping whatever
Making a cheddar in any weather
A hustler like me be doing it better,
The hustle continues,
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nowadays it's just Fifth Avenues
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Different strains all on the menu,
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Damn bitch, that's all I
Hot tempered till my heart too cold
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Bang, that's what the
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Top of my neighborhood bangers
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Shag, learned to poop them 211s
Graduated from minor crimes like beer
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Runs from 7 -11s to makin' them Gs
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To makin' them raps, to makin' them Gs
To makin' them beats,
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used to be another number in the system
What's the youngest person
to get killed from your
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neighborhood?
Munchie? Yeah.
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Did get killed up by a shower?
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Where were you when he got shot?
He was in the garage.
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Grimes,
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whose street name is Grime,
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joined a gang when he was 12 years old.
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Now, at age 20, he's in jail.
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Is it easy to pull the trigger
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on somebody?
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Loyal, a criminal's known to
stay true to the rules
Even if I'm in a losing battle,
I'ma ride to the death
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Until my death, I'ma remain a survivor
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Only if you knew what I've been through
stuck in the shadows
Obviously I'm winning
cause I'm grinning
While I'm sitting in these lanes
Keep running cause they losing
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the battle
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Triumph, I'm tossed with my hands
lifted high cause I made it
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Others abated, get lyrically faded
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get slayed quick
yeah you see the crown
L .A. dodging fitted,
posted up in the west
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Silence, opposition all get
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Criminal killer,
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Big data, they say they wanna get me
Criminals that go get her,
run up on me quick
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Magic, that's what I'm tryna be
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three motherfucking CDs
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talking about a lot of people
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in the running around out there with
and protection for the money
and the narcotics
that's out there in the street.
I'm talking about exporting this trafficking,
or even Southern California,
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but all over the western half of the country.
to cover up the fact that it's
been obtained illicitly.
If that's not organized crime,
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then I'm not a cop.
like any other growing business,
the gangs are now searching
for new market.
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