Tonalidad: A major
Verse 1
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We
interrupt this album
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for a very important announcement.
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You see, the situation's terrible.
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Some claim that it's unbearable.
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That's why I'm breaking it down
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into par ables and phrases.
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With the rhyme that I speak,
just because I'm a brother,
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the cops want to sweat me.
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Mistaking my identity, the man of unity.
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An ex -gangbanger,
trying to change my community.
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Givin' to the black
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as if I was your Robin Hood
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A three -man gang, spreadin' knowledge from Linwood Brothers on the corner,
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sellin' rocks like soap
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Cluckers all on my tip
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because she thinks I got dope
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My homie got killed
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because a set that he claimed
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She took one to his head,
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they had to mop up his brains
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I can't see it because it ain't no fun
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Break it down with the story Page One
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Dead, gone, no longer exist
He's been a dope dealer
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since the age of six
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Born into this world with nothin' at all
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So when he got to the age,
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he sold rocks for my doll
I never seen nothing like this in life
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He was put out the kindergarten
for carrying a knife
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So when he got grown,
the streets gave him clout
He made so much money
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that the bangers took him out
They broke into his house,
raped his wife
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Dropped homie to his knees
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and then took a life
Young brothers listen up,
I think you oughta
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Give me a break for the
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teenage reporter
Yo feel good,
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this ain't no dance record
So why don't we just skip
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the breaks homie, kick it
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David Kimball graduated
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from college
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With every degree in the world
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And the knowledge that he had
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He faced a big problem
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He came back home
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and couldn't even get a job
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His exact words was,
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I don't understand it
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It's not how I planned it,
it seems like I'm branded
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I worked through college
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and never got any sleep
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And now I can't find a job
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and a swap meet
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Why the hell have I felt so bad
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Every time I see an Asian
it makes me mad
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Cause the fact is the brothers
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don't own no more
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The Asians bought every
damn corner store
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The laundry mess ain't
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even a payphone
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Now tell me, what's left
for a brother to own?
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So he put pen to paper
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and stepped to the bank
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He asked for a loan
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and all he got was gank
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The bank said, Dave,
what you lack is experience
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100 ,000, you can't be serious
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Take a job at McDonald's
or run for the border
Life could be sweeted
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for an a quarter
Dave said, what in store they cussin'
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The man behind the desk
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hit the panic button
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The rented cop tripped
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and shot six rounds
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And everybody just screamed
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when Dave went down
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Drug cost, it was a word from the corner
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But you got the scoops
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from the teenage reporter
Yo, D .F .D., that's real nice on
the knowledge tip, brother
We need to hear that
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But why don't you kick that verse
about Katrina, man
The one about Katrina
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Kick it for the ladies
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Katrina Johnson, better known as Flip
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Was a neighborhood clucker
for the Compton Crips
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Stickin' every homie on
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the Long Beach block
All you had to do
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was give the girl a rock or a blast
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Booyah, oh, in other words, dope
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It wasn't nothin' new to her,
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cause all she did was smoke
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Her body was so little
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and her age was so young
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Her situation was definitely
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sprung on crack
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To the fact, I gotta get back, unknown
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I know, break down the track
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Katrina grew up in a home
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that was broken
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Pop rolled out and mo
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m started smokin'
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She had two brothers
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that were both still young
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She was moms and sis all
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times was hard, but she was clocking
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a she had her eyes on a prize
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And much better day
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She was a chocolate store
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with an untouched rep
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because she didn't want to
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follow in mom's
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Footsteps the harder she tried
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the more she failed
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and life was becoming a living hell
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till she met this young man
By the name of mark
who blew her mind
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and then stole her heart
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They made love and this day
both regret it
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because three months later
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Katrina was pregnant
Mark denied that it was his baby.
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Katrina got scared went down and crazy
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Unable to cope with the heart
that was broken
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Katrina found love
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in a pipe that was smoke filled
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I still can't see it cuz the story is wild
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the impact from the crack
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took effect on her child
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Drugs death life on the border
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all in a day for the teenage reporter
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We now return you to your normally scheduled
Outro 1
hour.
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