My mind state rewinds wakes
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And fast forwards bullets making a b-line for my face
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Then they stop like Neo, laugh at me
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Throw some cash at me, then fly past me
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But one ricochets off the wall to come back and ask me
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Am I scared of him, or the nigga that blast me
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Maybe just the hammer
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That goes to be a hole in an innocent bystander
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My eye's a camera, my ear's a microphone
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And my mind is Pro-Tools, my head is a stool
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What's recorded in my dome gets reported when I zone
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My mouth is a speaker, I'm anchoring the misery
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There's no friends, the enemy of the enemy is my enemy
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Beakers and test tubes full of memories
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In my laboratory, I create stories
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Doze off, and wake up, surrounded by forties
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With Glocks tucked in their labels
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And the caps is baseball hats, playing poker at a table
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Cigarettes massage they shoulders and belly tops
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Showing they navels, the dime sack side bets me
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A tec is running for president
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Jesus pieces walk around with niggas hanging from they necks
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Monopoly's playing chess
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I just picked up an obituary of a bullet proof vest
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Put the headphones on my mouth, speak into my ears
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Microphone check, check, check, check, check, check
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A pair of Air Forces told me rims been extinct for years
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Been ethnic cleansed by jerseys trying to take over the set
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And television's on death row for killing BET
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And MTV over a dice game
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And paralyzing CNN by knifing him in the neck
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I hear Clear Channel's been fighting him in the rec
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He's in for giving grape Kool-Aid laced with strychnine
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To mixtapes and armed robbing cassettes
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Dope told me weed was a crack fiend
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Crack told me that dope was a base head
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Hi-hats told the police he was just a soldier
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He did what the bass said
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The snare and the kick didn't make it out alive
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The sample made it out with some money
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But he died in the ride
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The 808 got caught with some work
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He ain't never coming home, so the MPC
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And the MP3's is fighting over his turf
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Chandon just gave birth, but she thinking
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About leaving it on the doorstep of a church
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Cristal can't have kids, she plotting a kidnapping
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That she orchestrated with a purse
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But Gucci told Fendi, Fendi turned around and told Henny
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And Henny is Moet's baby's father
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But she tried it anyway, disguised as a nurse
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In the newspapers, it says hip hop called rock 'n' roll racist
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Six raped the five, and the Maybach taped it
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A hundred dollar bill just signed a record deal
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But he blew all his money on a bracelet
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And giving the gold dollar a facelift
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A button up just drove by in a 6-4 Impala
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And all the Rolexes is hating, you see the smirks on they faces
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The Hav-A-Tampas is defending the Dutches
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They keep catching cases
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But the judge is a Swisher
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He just gives him I-bonds and community service with the papers
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So the Newports get mad at the Zig-Zags
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Then out come the razors, see the Kools is killers on the creep
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Rush up on a Philly, leave his guts spilling on the street
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Some gold grills burned down the building of some teeth
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Some sharpened toothbrushes is holding a trampoline
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Caught some children from the leap
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I just seen Rocawear rock Sean John to sleep
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With the same heat that Baby Phat carried
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Sprint was pimping Nextel, she just gave head to a BlackBerry
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I heard she goes two ways but he was skeeting in her face
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As it was beeping on my waist
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This is the mind of Lupe
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Just make sure my mic's on
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When I twilight zone, zone, zone
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Zone, zone, zone, zone
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Twilight Zone
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Lupe Fiasco |