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How It Was

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How It Was

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Hit the block and sell drugs

That's exactly how it was

Take the sprite and take the codeine

And I pour me up a cup

Get the molly, drink of mud

And smoke some bud, that's how it was

Last night we made a movie

I'mma tell you how it was

How it was, nigga how it was

How it was, bitch how it was

How it was, nigga how it was

How it was, I'mma tell you how it was

Whippin', whippin', whippin'

Whippin', whippin', whippin', whippin' it

Flippin', flippin', flippin'

Flippin', flippin', flippin', flippin' it

I was self motivated

I was self driven

I got my determination now

I'm really winnin'

We could pull up maseratis

I done whipped the benzes

I was handin' thousands out when I go shop at lenox

When it come to stackin' cash up it ain't no limit

I got racks on top of racks and

I ain't talking tennis

It's some girls that's gone wild I like to

See them kissing

It's some niggas playing foul and they sneak dissing

I won't let her hold me back to

Complete my mission

It ain't easy when you try to make it

Out the trenches

I'm the dope man, dope man yes I am

Turned your baby momma house into a drug lab

I was using all the forks,

Using all the pans

She done seen a lot of money touch a

Nigga hands

Saw me microwaving dope, like some leftovers

Drugged in with the green grow a lawn mower

I’m a michael fox, you're just an

Air royal

I'm a space cadet, an astronaut,

A rockstar

I was trapped in the trap dodging cop cars

I'm on pluto, I'm on jupiter, and mars

You ain't foreign, it's okay I like all broads

I'mma hustle everyday so

I don't never starve

Serve it to you cleaner than the

House keeper

Cruisin' by the scene with a street sweeper

Pour a half a pint of codeine in a two liter

Scorchin' hot flame, all that future

Drive is heaters

I put passion in my lyrics and

I'm working in 'em

Got a dogfood connect dmx nigga

Got a styrofoam cup, and I pour it up

Think I'm usain bolt, ran my bands up

Ain't no pressure on my money

Cause I'm certified

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