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>> And the band is the Space Age Pimps.
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>> Space Age Pimps.
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>> Yeah.
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>> >> Yes.
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We are witnessing Space Age Pimps.
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>> >> Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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>> >> Go.
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Hard with the gangster lean,
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gold smile for the women that be jocking the green.
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I'm a pimpster, not a trick on the stroll.
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You got to pimp that thing and keep a trick on hold.
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Stay on top of the world with a gun in your hand.
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Take control of a woman, fear no man.
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It be hard for me to see a day without cash.
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If you got it and I don't,
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I'll blast your ass with the quickness because a pimp don't play.
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I got to work on my game, think of ways to get paid.
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Born in the mound down deep in the south with the brothers with the
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curls and gold teeth in their mouth.
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In this Chevrolet Impalas with the crackers and Vogues.
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Vogue deep with the yak smoking fat mackin' dough.
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Fall up in the club with the pimpster tone.
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Got a check in my pants.
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You step to me in this zone.
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Got a family in Memphis, gang in Texas, T-Money in the Jag,
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JB in the Lexus, Texas.
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Pimp tight mind in the studio four.
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I'm coming out hard.
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What we doing?
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What we doing?
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We coming out hard.
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What we doing?
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What we doing?
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>> >> We coming out hard.
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What we doing?
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What we doing?
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We coming out hard.
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>> I am J G,
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description of brother and one who tends to always keep his business under cover.
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But still I wind up in the middle of a click.
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Somebody heard, he heard, she heard.
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Should I continue to listen to the rumors, the garbage?
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Trick I ain't buying this sucker.
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Let's start this rumble.
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Swing, trick.
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You miss, I hit, tumble into the speaker.
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Now you're feeling weaker.
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Man, don't step when you think you got back up.
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Looking for some help, but your boys just slacked up.
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Pumped up, got back, laid low, headed to the front door.
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Sneaking out real slow.
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How you feel now?
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What's wrong?
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What's the matter?
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Hey, mama never told you not to baby those rhymes.
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Him, J G got juice in the 9 deuce.
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What?
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For the 9 tre bill.
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Don't play with.
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I'mma stay true.
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Some of y'all going trade.
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Some of y'all love my life.
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Some of y'all going hate, but see I'm in it to win it.
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Not in it for a part
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and it's considered hard for me to come out damn hard.
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>> >> What we doing?
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What we doing?
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We coming out hard.
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What we doing?
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What we doing?
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We coming out hard.
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>> >> What we doing?
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What we doing?
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We coming out hard.
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>> >> Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Coming out hard.
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Coming out hard.
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Coming out hard.
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>> >> What we doing?
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What we doing?
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We coming out hard.
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>> >> I'm a push.
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>> >> From the first album coming out hard, if you didn't know that or not.
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>> >> Yeah, yeah, man.
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Appreciate the love, y'all.
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That that song is older than is possibly some people in this room.
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>> >> Straight up.
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>> It's a whole daddy old, that's what we call it.
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You know, or a whole mama old, you know,
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whatever you want to call it.
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>> Yeah, man, yeah.
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What we doing?
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>> 1 2 3 >> >> Said I got the blues.
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Said I got the blues.
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The Memphis City blues.
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>> Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Light up the green, watch me light up the room,
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watch me light up the mic.
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Fat boy be the truth. live and learn.
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Learn the streets of the burn. take what you earn.
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They be slick as a perm.
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Man, I try to be slicker.
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Try to be cunning and quicker.
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Try to be more than just another broke ass in this game of life.
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Lose your life in the game.
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>> >> Take a life full of pain, make you remember my name.
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From the home of the blues.
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Thought I paid my dues.
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It's hard to fill my shoes.
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In what haters abuse.
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I just love the music like my heart and my brain.
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Couldn't live without it.
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That's impossible, man.
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I'm unstoppable, man.
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From the bottom I came. scratching for bread, stumbled up on the fame.
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Humble with game.
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Shut your mouth up and listen.
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Recognize it's a blessing.
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Thankful just to be living.
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I got the Memphis City blues.
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Ooh, I can feel it.
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The neighborhood pimps introduced us to pimping.
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And everybody we know used to play in them streets.
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So, man, oh man, oh man, I got them Memphis city blues.
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I can feel it.
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The neighborhood cousins introduced us to pimpin'
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and everybody we know used to play in them streets.
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So, man, oh man, oh man,
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I had them Memphis city soul running through my bones way,
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way back when eight plus people was in grade homes.
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Even further back when I was just playing up in my yard,
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ride biting crawling and getting my legs hard in the music city, Memphis 10.
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It turned me into this.
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My dad and a couple of my friends, they played instruments.
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And when we used to roll to school at 16,
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I bumped like Bobby Womack and Al Green.
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Hell, I knew most of the old school from front to end.
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I was starting to memorize four fives at age 10.
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I come from a city where R&B run deep
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and the blues was the music
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that paved the whole street.
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It was only natural that we would take the torch and run with it.
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Be serious but still have a little fun with it.
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MJG from a town that run real deep.
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Ask B.B.
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King and Isaac Hayes on Beale Street.
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I got them Memphis city blues.
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I can feel it.
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The neighborhood cousins introduced us to pimpin' >> >>
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and everybody we know used to play in them streets.
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So, man, oh man, oh man, I got them Memphis city blues.
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I can feel it.
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>> >> The neighborhood cousins introduced us to pimpin'
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and everybody we know used to play in them streets.
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So, man, oh man, oh man.
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Ooh.
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Take it on home, Mar.
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What we doing?
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>> I got them Memphis city >> >> Tony Gentry on the wire, y'all.
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Tony Gentry on the wire.
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>> Memphis city blues.
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Ooh.
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>> Memphis City Blues Memphis City Blues >> >> That's our Memphis City Blues.
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That's off the Living Legends album, I believe, man.
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That was our first album with Bad Boy, man.
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Uh beautiful time, man.
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Beautiful time, man.
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>> That that that that song is organic.
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It really tells of the music history and the musical influence from our city,
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Memphis, Tennessee.
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>> Definitely.
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The home of the blues, man.
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It's also the home of this type of stuff, too.
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>> Straight from the underground.
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Bad boy from the mouth, spit it.
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How I live it.
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Keep it gutter, that's how we get down.
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I want to see you get it, crumb.
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Let a know what hood you from.
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Everybody with me drunk as Break it down.
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Roll it up.
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Bag it up.
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A girl like you, a like me can't handle it.
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Roll in back, looking good.
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Put it in a verse.
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Bag it up.
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What's the deal?
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Let me make it clear.
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What you got right here, they broke the mold.
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One of a kind.
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Bad boy with a gold mouth, that's time.
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Hard to tell.
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Probably tell these boys out here ain't hard as us.
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Ball and G, hard as street.
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Hardest street are part of us.
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Lay it down.
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Please remember gangs, we don't play them now.
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Disrespect, please remember things we don't we don't bust a head, smack a hoe,
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shoot the club up.
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Bust a head, a hoe.
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Shoot the club, uh.
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>> >> >> >> >> You don't want to go.
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>> >> You don't want to go.
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You don't want >> >> to go.
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You don't want to go.
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Let's go.
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Hold up.
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Who?
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Hold up.
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Who?
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Hold up.
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Who?
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You going to have to break this thing down.
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Who?
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Who?
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Who?
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Who?
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>> make Don't make me kill me kill no body in here or in here.
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I'mma shoot I'mma shoot three shots three shots.
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Somebody done made me hot.
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>> One more time.
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>> Don't make Don't make me kill me kill no body in here
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or in here.
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I'mma shoot I'mma shoot three shots three shots.
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Somebody done made me hot.
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>> Hot.
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>> You got me up.
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We shoot guns in here, target meet market.
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Y'all haters up who start Hill J, G R.I.P.
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Pooh.
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Bodyguards out of line, police is in order.
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Thought they bought it hard that when the party started.
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Thought we was all chilling, I figured that everybody be leaving here all leaving.
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You standing too close, You asking too much, baby.
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>> >> It may need coming around talking about they hot,
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but they not. them with Bad Boy and MJ, we the two truth.
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Holler at a player man streets of the booth.
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We popping at them haters man soft and make they chin hit the floor.
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Then all red take they cheese
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and they whole mafia. know >> know >>
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when the real life films hit the dough.
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Come on.
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>> Come on.
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>> Don't make Don't make me kill me kill no body in here
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or in here.
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I'mma shoot I'mma shoot three shots Somebody done made me hot.
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Don't make me >> >> kill nobody in here.
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I'm a shoot three shots.
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Somebody done made me hot.
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>> >> We just having fun.
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>> >> Just having fun.
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We're just in the nest.
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I wish we could go loud.
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But >> Louder.
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>> It is all good, man.
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We just tiny desking it.
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>> >> You know, hey.
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That was a Living Legend album as well, man.
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Living Legend album just for the people, you know, in uh the internet world.
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The the youngins who don't know.
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So, y'all can go boom boom and find us.
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>> The Living Legends album.
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>> Yeah.
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Let's do another one from that album.
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>> One.
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Two.
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Three.
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Four.
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>> >> Push.
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>> See a real like me got to get money till I get rich.
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Ride with a couple hundred Gs in the biscuit.
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Down for whatever.
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Hustling with my misfit home.
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So, you going to see how this might be once we get rich.
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Till then, it's back to hustling with my misfits.
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Deep on the creep.
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Fifty zones on under the brawl.
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Fifty zones on I keep a big old beater heater.
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It's in the trunk.
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On my photo and my duke.
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See the make skin up, skin up,
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give up and grab the ball back just like I'm Barry Cheetah.
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I know you want to my hole but you too scared to meet her.
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>> >> See, you ain't got enough bread to even start to treat her.
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The way I've been did and in the bed I'm even sweeter.
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I hustle, >> >> I got more Franklins than Anita Baker.
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If I had a Oprah Winfrey, I would marry her and keep her.
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I spit this knowledge
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and preach this and teach this just
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as long the message reaches,
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we all fill up the breaches.
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I'm the L J I get in your I ain't trying to run your
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clique and be your friend
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so quick.
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I'm on that wave, my money.
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Let me hit the stage. them long interviews, just give us the front page.
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Black apostrophe S, us forever bust.
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Give lyrics that make the people say
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that he got nothing on >> >> What we going to do,
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man?
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>> >> How many of them joints under the bronze?
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>> >> Appreciate the love, y'all.
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Appreciate the love, man.
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Appreciate the love.
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Thank you very much.
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It's a blessing to be here today, man.
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It's a blessing to be here today.
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Um A lot of years, y'all.
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A lot of years.
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It's a blessing.
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>> Yes.
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>> And uh >> Yes, it is.
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It It's definitely is.
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>> You know, y'all uh Cherish every day.
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Cherish every day your loved ones.
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Tell them you love them every day.
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You hear me, man?
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>> You never know.
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>> You never know.
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>> Straight up.
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>> Check on that person when you leave here.
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>> Facts.
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Facts.
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Facts.
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>> All right.
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>> Let's get it.
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Jump in the Cadillac.
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>> >> Uh.
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Take it back.
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Yeah.
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I'll be your blast if you step outside because my ride is awaiting.
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A date, a steak, a nightcap.
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We mated, awoken by smells of perfume
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that I inhale and
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then tell her well we raise hell on the des- satin sheets.
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Heat from your feet keep me warm.
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The mood is perfected with the sounds from the storm.
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You came strong but I lasted longer than I ever lasted.
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>> >> Your mouth was fantastic.
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The test you passed it.
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In a way you made a laugh.
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I had to get you.
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And when I saw that ass pass, I had to hit you.
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You're making me fight against my will.
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What must I do now?
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Would you kill for me?
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Yeah.
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If my life's in danger, too.
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Would you steal for me?
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Yeah.
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If this belongs to you, here and feel for me.
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Yeah.
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If the way you act is true, who knows?
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Fine clothes.
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Lexus doors you'll be closing
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when you become one of the chosen you holding different places,
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different faces, different cases.
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They got me tired like shoelaces
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but no mistake is MJG you ain't got a beat.
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Constantly trying to shoot that P claiming that you ain't heard of me.
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Giving it real, let me know how you feel.
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When we communicate, we'll be straight
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if you express your mind instead of preferring to wait.
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Now some who can't do it, they lose women.
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But like me used to it.
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Face says paper.
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Let's go.
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>> You came.
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You came.
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Once in a while. >> this is how we play.
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>> This ain't nothing but a thug thing.
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>> Nothing is too strong.
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>> This ain't nothing
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but a thug Setting out in all of the city lights
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and sounds.
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>> >> Talk to you, and I, >> >> me and you.
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Situation getting sticky.
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Your mouth is saying no, but your body is saying "Stick me, lick me."
17:47
Don't be afraid of what your friends say.
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Rappers get that ass, then be out of here like yesterday.
17:52
But not tonight.
17:53
You look so tight, it feels so right.
17:55
This endo got me perved.
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Let's go hop in my 'Burb
17:58
and ride till we get to where you want to be,
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no matter how far.
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Just call me ball, baby.
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To me, you're the superstar.
18:04
Ask me time and time again why did I choose you?
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Do I want to be your man or just misuse you?
18:10
I hear your partner dissing when they think I ain't listening.
18:13
Them hoes just be wishing they could be in your position.
18:16
With me and luxury, I got to be.
18:20
Chiefing hay with some stout, wearing lingerie.
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Let's hit the tail, get a suite, order something to eat.
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Tell me about you, I'll tell you about me.
18:29
Then out the blue, I'll be caressing you, undressing you.
18:32
You start doing all that you said you'd never do.
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Lusting, busting, all out of my boxer drawers.
18:38
Fingers slipping, sliding in and out, and in and out.
18:41
Constantly telling me the things you don't do.
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Yet you do it like a pro and think that I don't know.
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But I do.
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That's why I'm here with you, and you know this.
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Slip on the latex and dive in.
18:55
>> >> Every once in a while, this is how we play.
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>> This ain't nothing but a >> Nothing is too strong.
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>> This ain't nothing
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but a >> We're sitting out in all of the >> >> city lights
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>> nothing but a >> Just sitting in all of It's ain't nothing
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but a It's ain't nothing
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but >> >> It's ain't nothing
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but a >> >> It's ain't nothing
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but a >> >> It's ain't nothing Yeah.
19:45
>> >> It's ain't nothing
19:46
but a It's ain't nothing
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but a >> >> It's ain't nothing
19:58
but a >> >> Yeah.
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They say it counts.
20:13
We love y'all.
20:31
Hey.
20:31
Already thank y'all again, man.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Thank y'all.
20:42
>> >> Thank y'all.
20:42
Thank y'all.
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We appreciate the love. >> y'all.
20:45
>> Everybody in the band, Mar.
20:52
>> Everybody.
20:52
>> Keyel.
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Tony.
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Doc.
20:52
Los on the drums.
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DJ Tail.
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>> Good job.
20:56
>> Marcus over here, man.
20:58
>> I don't play no games.
20:59
>> Coffee team, Push Management.
21:01
>> Peace out of Space Age Films.
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>> The Space Age Films behind us.
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Push Management.
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Tiny Desk.
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Everybody, man.
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Thank y'all. >> y'all.
21:08
>> Appreciate the love, man.
21:11
My son laying here, man.
21:12
My older son, man.
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Love you, man.
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You get to see this, man.
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Yeah.
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But, thank y'all, man.
21:17
We appreciate the love.
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Y'all go home safe, man.
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>> Thank y'all.
21:22
>> Love somebody.
21:31
>> >> Let's drink some coffee, man.
21:32
Let's drink some coffee, man.
21:35
Let's drink some coffee, man.
21:39
Google that.
21:40
Google that.
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>> >> Thank you.
22:11
Thank you.
22:11
Thank you.
22:28
>> >> Appreciate y'all, man.
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Thank you.
22:29
>> Thank you for the love.
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>> Appreciate it, man.
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