80 Bars

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80 Bars
 80 Scars
 Yo, engineer, turn me up, yo
 I started off in the underground
 From mono to stereo
 Now I'm surround sound
 Blowin through your tubes
 Leavin holes through your speakers
 Crackin through your tweeters
 My frequency's off the meters
 Jam pack arenas from here to Bangkok
 I'm ahead of my time like Jimmy Hendrix played Woodstock
 Me, I'm playin Hoodstock
 Before I had the dreadlocks I used to reminisce
 Should I do music or sell rocks
 Grow my own crops
 Livin in the PJs
 That's when an angel, Gabriel, said
 It's all a masquerade
 Eyes wit no face, sneakers wit no lace
 I feel the earth spinnin but I'm standing in the same space
 Wit no trace of what happened last night
 I seen two fiends fightin over a crack pipe
 Now I'm watchin tv
 My antenna was a clothes hanger
 Blurry vision Mista Mondehan David Banner
 Flip the data
 The kids are wearin bandanas
 Totin hammers
 Aimin at your medulla oblongata
 Blow Blow
 A young thug wit a slim figure
 Romantic type like the movie Casablanca
 Herb seller once got busted by a undercover buyer
 My supplier was a Gypsie cab driver
 That's when I realized I need to find a new hustle
 Livin in the jungle
 The guitar became my muscle
 I scribe through snake eyes that wanted my crucified
 Y'all thought that I was drownin but I was getting baptized
 Now behold I heard you sold twenty mill
 But wit no street credibility you overkill
 Y'all ain't real
 Talkin bout keep it gangsta
 Only if you knew the gangsta sent me to shank you
 Gank you, gank you, tie up your ankles
 And if that ain't enough I call hinchmens to lynch you
 Now at the funeral I could see the priest bless you
 But in the after life I'ma still touch you
 Knockin on heaven's door you beggin to get in
 That's when the Son of Man greets you wit the face of Satan
 Now you look frightened in the belly of the whale
 That's when the warden say I wanna welcome you to hell
 Bones is five bucks
 Get off the phone, time's up
 I seen him cut from his head to his (scratch $#@%)
 You wish you would wish you could
 Wishin got you here
 You screamin so loud that a deaf man could hear
 Back to the silence
 No more droppin science
 Everybody rappin bout diamonds and violence
 And A&R's all they do is charge credit cards
 And when the bill comes
 They blame it on the rap stars
 Now how you figure
 I ain't rent a car
 I wasn't at the spa
 I ain't buy the bar
 Now here's a Jew
 When you get your first record deal
 Don't subject yourself to the mass appeal
 First class, caviar in the? Ville
 In the new S class wit da Jordan wheels
 Remember the music in the streets like the streets
 You know the code of the streets
 Everybody tryin to eat
 The evidence is concrete
 I'm tired of the same song
 You take me out
 You must be high off of heroine
 Sharper than I ever been
 This one gon get a ten
 Rappers, I'ma murder y'all wit your own medicine
 I move with faith
 I never have doubt
 I'm so hungry you would think I'm just comin out
 But I been here before from Blunted to The Score
 To the Carnival, Ecleftic, World Tour
 I'm poison
 Whores waitin in the back door
 They want me to rock they boat and shift them on shore
 That's when the Father said,
 ? Take heed to this lesson'
 They wanna cut your hair like Delilah did Samson
 I felt that
 So I went back to my format
 Raps in backpack
 Gats for car jacks
 Hats for pussy cats
 Cause AIDS I don't want that
 And for the DJ's here's somethin y'all can scratch
 Technique twelve
 The needle hits the wax
 Hypnotize the crowd
 The dance floor's jam packed
 Now sing along like a Negro spiritual
 No one got shot tonight
 It's a miracle
 But what's this I hear
 Y'all wanna take my spot
 You got a better chance puttin a gorilla in a headlock
 I'm too focused I can see through your lens
 You ain't a G, just a wannabe kingpin
 So, the next time y'all wanna pay for protection
 I suggest that you hit up the Hatian Sicilian
 80 Bars
 80 Scars
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 80 Bars

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Duration
04:30
Key
2
Tempo
90 BPM

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