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Verse 1
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What's it up? Yeah.
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to introduce to you from the silver screen
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tell me what I say.
Let's hear it for Samuel L. Jackson
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A .K .A. Sammy J,
put your hands together.
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Let me drop a little knowledge
about how I got
from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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to Big City, L .A. When I was a kid,
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when I got up in the morning,
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there was music in my house.
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There was a whole gang of us
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walking to school together.
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We would grab each other up
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Every house had it's own beat,
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an d that beat carry us and our books all
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the way down the street.
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we used to have this thing
they called devotion,
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where we had to do the Lord's Prayer,
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pledge allegiance to the flag,
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sing America the Beautiful.
But once we'd done that,
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the teacher would let us pick
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a song that we wanted to sing.
We would always pick something cool.
You imagine a class
with about 30 little brothers and sisters
singing Peanut Butter and
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
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Or doing background to our
lead singer of the class,
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Aquanetta Butts, as she sang,
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This is dedicated to the one I love,
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and we will.
Oh, that made the day so much better.
We could learn and learn,
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learn an d burn.
As we got a little older,
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I think I bought my first 45.
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And I think it was, uh,
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mama said that these days like this
Smokey was my man,
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then there was the Duke of Earl
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Ike and Tina, of course, James Brown
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I learned to do the slob, the funky chicken,
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the twist I was a -dancin',
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and I was certainly turn
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in' the mother fuck
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I felt like I was gonna live forever
The music just made me so strong
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I got to college,
things started to groovin'
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Mobbing gays, laying it on us,
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making us feel all political
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I grew my hair long, had my frowns,
my army fatigue jacket
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Fists in the air, stoke it, rap,
all the brothers
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Things were starting to make sense,
and nonsense
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I met brothers coming from Vietnam,
didn't even know where that was
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They said, if you don't stay in school,
man, you're gonna end up in the war.
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the war was just beginning.
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We're gonna turn this mother out.
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We're gonna turn this mother out.
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We don't turn this mug up
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We don't turn this mug up
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The government got kind of hip
to what we were trying to do
and they decided we
were going put an end to this
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They took all the
weed off the street
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Took all the acid off the street
And all they left was death,
the White Hawks
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We rode it, and we rode it hard
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But when that wasn't enough,
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they brought in that girl
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Oh Lord, that girl, we love that girl
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