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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I grew up on the chill side
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and no big deal side
Stayin' alive was no problem,
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the Upper East Side project some condos some
It's not quite accurate to
Some project apartments
with roaches and rats
where it wasn't so wild
Who wouldn't want to find a way
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to make it safe for a child?
I learned to escape for a while,
but you know what they say
Being out of your element
Was a giraffe, monkey, lion, or elephant
In school they said I was on the right track
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But in the school of hard knocks
I'd have got left back
Nowadays no knocks get left,
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my left knock's back
so my rights ain't light
But whether giving beat downs
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or getting down on beat
or consider me street
But from the sidewalks
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I see how it's rough out there
of life ain't fair
From the sidewalks
when you go too fast
From the South Walks,
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trust shit is just as real
ain't kill or be killed
From the South Walks,
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But I'm that smart yard nigga
that'll whoop your ass
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Yo, I love New York, I am New York
make beats and talk
The way I eat, sleep, drink,
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fuck, spit and walk
cause that's how I was taught
I'm feelin' Philly for now,
Giants and Knicks
It's still city to city,
just different bricks
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See, I don't divide by places,
man, fuck that shit
It's a different state,
but similar state of mind
See, every city got the
same theme on the line
A battleground for the lives
of the dumb and blind
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You heard? Please believe
that it takes all kinds
We all gotta get over in our own way
Place to stay, peace to lay, and a payday
I get mine's the legit way
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But no tellin' what I do to protect mine
So you best respect mine
until the cards are played
But don't step to my door
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thinking something is sweet
it all the way to the street
Cause from the sidewalks,
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corners that I clean at home
From the sidewalk,
you got to feel me
From the sidewalk,
I know how to hold it down
On my own when I come through
and visit your town
From the sidewalk,
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Chris Rock got some gas
that'll whoop your ass
From the sidewalks,
from school battles to my own show
I watch skills evolve,
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and the next up blow
Motivated by the love for
the art and the dough
I seen people influenced
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by the next man's flow
where their content go
But if it's 8 million stories
and gun clappers
It sounds sexy coming out to stereo,
right?
But then you wonder
why we still getting stereotyped
Like we a whole generation
Like that's just how I go
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We all not slinging rocks in Totem Meadow
And everybody in the ghetto
shoot, and shank ya
the way that you do
Like there's no consequences
or repercussions
Like we don't even think first
before we start busting
But whatever's clever,
just for y 'all to repel it?
I'd rather rep for the rest of us
with real talk
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So I'm out, like that, J
Trans been alive on the sidewalks
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I'm from the sidewalks
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