Tom: Ab major
Verse 1
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Back in high school,
I thought I was fresh to death
In and out of Hillcrest High
like I was a guest
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I'd grab my bus pass and dash,
Stay in class, pass,
even had my teachers impressed
After school,
we all congregated on the Ave
Got beefed and go home,
you was bound to cross paths
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Knew if we hit the Coliseum,
Yeah, that was the place to be in
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Send some extra dough or hot wax
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to get the record for a come out
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Cause you know if you waitin'
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then them joints is gon' run out
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Catch a flick at the sunrise
Walk through Melbourne,
Texas and start beepin'
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Had the Avis fight break out,
At the food court chillin',
half of us ain't even eatin'
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Roosevelt Field back then
Had them buses
and all the cabs and vans packed in
And if we needed somethin' different
to get into it
stop to Queen Center
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And I was back before
you saw these dudes
things is looking different these days
but it's cool cause I'm proud
of all the styles that we let
Peace to Vons, no debate,
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Queen 7 represent
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I got into hip hop
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and what made me want to start making music pretty
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much like just growing up in a jazz household
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my pops was a jazz player
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so growing up, you know it's like you wake up in
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the morning he's playing jazz and then on the flip side
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my mom's was in the gospel
she's a church lady
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so there was a lot of gospel music being played so
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nonetheless even though it really wasn't hip -hop
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it was jazz an d gospel
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you know very soulful elements
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and you know as I grew
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I just kind of learned from a
lot of the hip -hop greats
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that I was listening to at the time
Bm
Em
you know K -R -S -E -1
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once upon a time up in my city where I grew up see
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I didn't know my limit with that liquor
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then I threw up more quickly than I shoulda,
coulda, maybe, then we knew it
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If we only faded, hated, waited,
maybe, then I blew it
how we lookin', how we lookin'
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then we ended up in Brooklyn
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Left sneakers in them jeans,
Etha gladly spoke to B for best
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eat the Gabby's margaritas
We the best in Cali,
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say he's suffin' bully to the dot
daisy houses up in the chicken spot
little distribution agent
Momma pray to Lord
ways give me favor
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but still my momma fightin'
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cancer
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Em
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I put out an original song every Monday
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Eb
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for an entire year, you know, and that really helped a lot because,
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you know, when you're a new artist
and you're trying to get exposure
Em
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but you want to get known,
you're building your reputation,
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it's difficult, you know, because
there's so many artists.
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Everybody raps nowadays,
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you know, everybody's grandmother raps,
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everybody's fish, everybody's dog,
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You know, if a Chinese man comes
to deliver some food at your crib,
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he's gonna show up rapping
you have to distinguish yourself
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and I felt that was the best way
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to distinguish myself as someone who's
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consistent but yet very good
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Yo, you see I grew up in Queens,
the most stout
Let's talk about my borough,
send my verses that you purchased
What's the aim, I corner store churches,
three of those up on the
same block
Everybody ain't hot,
rappers think they finna shine
Hit the rib shack,
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Lennon Boulevard for dinnertime
Tired of the roaches, steady round a Fuji
Used to bump a tribe
called Quest, Little Fugees
Ayy, Mona Lisa,
could I get a date on Friday?
And if not, we took the Van Wick
Expressway
Gangs beefin',
old ladies prayin' they don't fight
Spanish one up in the background
saying this is poetry in motion
people tend to fear
that think the Lord was calling me
I wasn't trying to hear that in
my own world
liquor stores horse fiends
just a little young boy steady
Outro 1
growing up in Queens Queens
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