[Intro: Brother Ali - talking]
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So I finally get home from off tour
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Been gone since I can't even remember when
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I start waking up in my bed, not knowing where I'm at man
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The bad part is, I look over at my wife
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And like I don't know who this person is in my bed
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(Tell me is it real?)
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I'm bugging out (yeah!)
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[Verse: Brother Ali]
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If I wake up in a hotel room or on the bunk of a bus
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Middle of nowhere, shit I'm completely fine
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But let me wake up in my crib, I get to flipping my wig
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Anywhere as long as it isn't mine
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I've been on the road seven out the past eight months
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Want to live, you got to give your loving fans what they want
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So, if they want "The Truth", you got to tell 'em it's here
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Ask Randy Hawkins man, I had a hell of a year
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My first headlining tour, my album in stores
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And I finally got to see what all that grinding been for
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To get down for the cause and catch a round of applause
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And to see the shit I spit get printed out in The Source
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My heroes brought me on tour, I said +Allah U Akbar+
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Thank you God, I don't know what else I could bother you for
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Got me out in California at this Wal-Mart store
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With the Lord Rakim, we chilling, shopping for drawers
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I blew my little video budget, I figured "fuck it!"
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You only live once, you best to entertain your public
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I did freeze my nuts in D.C. on a Handycam
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On the White House lawn (hey!) rapping (Uncle Sam Goddamn)
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Shook hands with Busy Bee, I said his line from "Wild Style"
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"The Bee part be" and he smiled
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Saw him out in the Bay with Fred Hampton, Jr.
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Somebody made away with my God damn computer
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I caught a flight home on my 30th birthday
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A gift courtesy of my main man Mercy
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Needed to see my wife and Faheem in the worst way
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Ended up having both a blessed and a cursed day
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As I walked onstage to give 'em these raps
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My DJ's wife was on that bridge that collapsed
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She ended up breaking her back and getting roughed up
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But she already walking, you bad motherfucker
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As real as can be, I keep my people with me
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And that's BK, Drinkala and King Toki
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Rhymesayers Entertainment and what more can I say
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Except I got a brand new baby daughter on the way
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(Tell me is it real?)...
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(Come on) [x6]
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(Come on y'all!)
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Real As Can Be
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Brother Ali |