| See I believe in money, power, and respect.
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| First You get the money.
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| Then you get the muthafuckin, power.
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| After you get the fuckin' power muthafuckas will respect you.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Help you sleep at night.
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| You’ll see the light.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Ayo my whole clique bout it, bout it.
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| We take yours while you pout about it.
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| Truck, step out the whore’s wanna' crowd around it.
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| You could see me on optimum TV.
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| Go in your bathroom turn the light out. | 
| Scream!
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| Bloody Mary, 1, 2, 3.
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| Sheek ain’t your usual friend.
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| About to setchu' up like Kaiser and walk straight at the end.
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| I’m done wit' ice and charms.
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| I’m tryin' my whole casket when I’m gone.
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| Pull up wit' class on the don'.
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| Once I meet em' I greet em'.
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| Kiss his feet for freedom.
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| Tell em' thank you lord.
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| Cuz on Earth I was gettin' bored.
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| Now resurrect me back to this cat called Sheek.
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| So I can make this album.
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| And get back the cats that’s weak.
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| Two thirty, six two.
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| Me bust for you that’s like a cat vs. a pitbull.
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| Gun, know clip full, keep hunger.
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| And plan for the future, cuz you figure
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| you gon' be older
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| way longer than you gon' be younger.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Help you sleep at night.
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| You’ll see the light.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Only time could tell how the clock ticks.
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| I’m really loved here but I’m still a hostage.
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| Two personalities check the posture.
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| Smoke out the mouth clear out the nostrils.
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| You think of death but the life seem scary.
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| I’m past the graveyard seein' people Hail Mary
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| I ain’t chillin til' I’m out parachutin'.
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| Race my man in mountain climbin' for about ten diamonds.
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| Twenty five thousand a piece.
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| Fuck streets!
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| Tryin' to own the island.
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| Forget about wilin'.
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| Try ridin' in the car that be glidin'.
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| If I showed you where I lived you would think I was hidin'.
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| Sling dick to chicks that don’t speak English.
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| Wake up in Trinidad, like fuckin' em rich.
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| Come back. | 
| Private jet
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| live on set.
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| If you could shit gold like you split the decks.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Help you sleep at night.
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| You’ll see the light.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Yo nutin' but the hotness.
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| Whenever we drop this.
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| Monotonous for ya’ll to keep hatin',
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| cuz ya’ll never gon' stop us.
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| I keep my rocks spotless,
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| and my hoes topless.
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| Take time try to figure out who da Lox is.
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| Fear no one.
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| Kick rhymes like Shoguns.
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| You scared to blow one.
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| Get robbed wit' your own gun.
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| If I don’t respect you I’m ah check you.
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| And if I don’t kiss you I’m a peck you,
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| right before I wet' chu.
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| I sneeze on tracks an' bless you.
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| I’m special.
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| And if you like workin' out,
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| then I’m gon' stretch you.
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| Husslin' is dead but we still get red.
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| Turn the spots in the bakeries to get back bread.
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| And ya’ll said my monies spent.
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| But it’s in the Bent'.
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| So when the feds come the dogs can’t get a scent.
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| For my story, self-explanatory
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| that I’m the hottest thing on the street.
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| An' yall ain’t got nutin' for me
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Help you sleep at night.
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| You’ll see the light.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect. | 
| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Arf, arf.
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| This is a beat that I can freak to
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| just drop the reals.
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| Plus a nigga wit' the ill.
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| Ya’ll niggas know my skills.
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| Ass from the grills get em' up,
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| split em' up, wet em' up.
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| And watch em' come get em' up,
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| Set em' up.
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| When you do dirt, you get dirt.
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| Bitch, I’ll make your shit hurt.
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| Step back like I did worse.
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| This ain’t no fucking game.
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| You think I’m playin, till you layin.
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| To where? | 
| The junkyard decayin'.
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| Mom’s at home prayin'
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| that chu comin' home.
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| But chu not, cuz you sittin up in the trunk
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| startin to rot.
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| And hell is hot, I know because I’m here now Baby.
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| It’s goin' down baby.
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| Git the full pound baby.
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| And let off up in a nigga,
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| especially if he think he bigga'
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| than my muthafuckin' trigga'.
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| Did I?
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| Can I get my?
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| Is it gone?
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| DMX represent for one time.
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| It’s on.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Help you sleep at night.
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| You’ll see the light.
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| It’s the key to life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Whatchu' need in life.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| When you eatin' right.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect.
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| Money, power, and respect. |