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Get It

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Get It

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[Verse 1]

Gotta get my groove back, you know?

It's been a little minute

Yeah

Yeah

Uh

Label me greedy, but see me finish what Petey started

From Carolina where niggas spray like graffiti artists

The south nigga, niggas used to think we retarded

And slow as hell, but well well, now we regarded as the niggas (yea)

I fuck with non rapping niggas, non clapping niggas

Niggas is real, y'all is action figures (ha)

Ain't into acting bigger than I really am

Ain't no two ways around it, motherfucker I'm the man

Where the beef at?

Back in the days I ain't even go out for recess

A nigga don't play, man, I been living okay

Been up in Queens where they 'rid of those foes

And niggas GATs got bodies like video hoes

It's J.Cole, you not fucking with just any old flow

I'm like the '95 Penny, you like Penny '04

No disrespect to my favorite player

Niggas praying a nigga never see the day a nigga rich

So I'm slaying niggas, yea

[Hook:]

This is for my niggas tryna make it

Watch out for them evil ass niggas tryna take it, uh

They love to see a nigga dead up, in jail

Living in a world where we set up to fail

But I'm a get it, nigga I'm finna to get it

I'm a get it, nigga I'm finna to get it

Yeah

I'm a get it, nigga I'm finna to get it (yea)

I'm a get it, nigga I gotta get it

[Verse 2]

Niggas in the streets, no

Niggas blessed beats

I got that priest flow, heavenly

You gonna cross over if he reach for the rock

Just a figure a speech for the Glock

From the Ville, where police know the heat flow a lot (yea)

Like our beats yo, it's hot

Niggas laid out

Caught a fake nigga centerfield it's cause they played out

Watch our boys fade out, niggas tryna hate

If he only knew my dick's in his dame's mouth

Just made out, came out the woodworks

Now they tryna peep a nigga footwork

I'm getting real green, y'all niggas playing on some good turf

Fake money, scared money, never make money

And a nigga never fear nothing but God

Fuck a facade

I'm just focused on stuffing my pockets up with them wads and shit

Hundred thousand dollar deposit shit

Been dreaming 'bout millions since a nigga was five or six

And so I strive, I'm the God, this some bible shit

Nigga I

Yea

[Hook:]

This is for my niggas tryna make it

Watch out for them evil ass niggas tryna take it, uh

They love to see a nigga dead up, in jail

Living in a world where we set up to fail

But I'm a get it, nigga I'm finna to get it

I'm a get it, nigga I'm finna to get it

Yeah

I'm a get it, nigga I'm finna to get it (yea)

I'm a get it, nigga I gotta get it

[Verse 3]

Tell 'em Geppettos my niggas in ghettos with scarface dreams

On the block with the hard hate, that's all they seen

Niggas killing niggas in broad day on all they screams

Watching cops loving car chase scenes

Niggas arrested

Treat us like roaches, the prison's nigga infested

They hate to see the day we ain't slain, niggas invested

All created equal looks like equal to a less than

Depending on your race, or depending on your address, man

I've been blessed, was given less and but still progress, man

I hate to see the position my niggas left in

Slay dope or nigga you slave for minimum wage

Ashamed

But we living in the cage, so nigga get paid, shit

How could I tell a nigga not to hustle?

Yea it's a better life my nigga, but it's not for us though

Instead they wanted us to break

They never wanted us to make it, yea

To my niggas smart enough to be smart enough to take it, nigga!

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