| Dollar signs, the values we respect
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| Living by their standards that they taught us
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| You already know what it is
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| If you don’t it’s depending on the way that you was brought up
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| Gotta keep it real with the kids
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| For centuries our people been tortured
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| Don’t need to be complainin' about a thing
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| Got it easy, if you think you got it bad, they had it harder
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| Where your ass was at when they built pyramids?
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| Who the fuck you think had built a palace for the kids?
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| Stay exaggerating like you do with everything
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| Woulda thought that they was goin' through it everyday
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| Every task ain’t as hard as it looks
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| They ain’t have cars, had to walk there by foot
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| Just imagine how long that shit took
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| Then they couldn’t even buy food that was already cooked
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| Now they sayin' they a hustler cause they sold it with an 8-ball
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| Claimin' movin' bricks ain’t nothing like the ones that built the great wall
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| You can act like you don’t know and be the only one to play dumb
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| Think we started from a ship, the motherland is where we came from
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| That’s before they decided they wouldn’t save us
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| Dollar signs, the values we respect
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| Living by their standards that they taught us
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| You already know what it is
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| If you don’t it’s depending on the way that you was brought up
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| Gotta keep it real with the kids
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| For centuries our people been tortured
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| Don’t need to be complainin' about a thing
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| Got it easy, if you think you got it bad, they had it harder
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| You think you got it bad, they had it harder
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| You think you got it bad, they had it harder
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| Don’t need to be complainin' bout a thing
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| They was risking their lives just to maintain order
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| You think you got it bad, they had it harder
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| You think you got it bad, they had it harder
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| Don’t need to be complainin' bout a thing
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| They was risking their lives just to maintain order
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| (Dollar signs, the values we respect)
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| (Dollar signs, the values we respect)
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| Sittin on my conscience, different type of conscious
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| Worship those with money, shit on those with nothing
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| They think I won’t make it, treated like I ain’t shit
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| I ain’t constipated, knowledge we not ancient
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| Spread it like wild fire, never been a liar
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| Swear I been a prophet, my name ain’t Elijah
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| Gotta get this profit, my boys keep on piling
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| Mama working gotta move her out the projects
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| Everybody know the police out here wylin'
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| Killin' niggas even children gettin' bodied
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| This is why all the rules I do not follow
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| They just showin' us the power of the dollar
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| They just showin' us the power of the dollar
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| Dollar signs, the values we respect |