Slums

[00:02.10] "Please baby, please don't leave"
[00:03.97] (R. Prophit)
[00:07.79] We represent the slums. alright.
[00:10.54] Let's get this motherfucker crunkin from Kentucky to Baghdad
[00:13.20] Ya pops was always gone but that didn't make him a bad dad
[00:16.81] We still managed to eat, and come to think wattn't half bad
[00:19.60] But Doug was always on us bout the things that we never had
[00:22.21] Now I was born in Oakland better known as the Coke Town
[00:25.92] Done seen too many folk down, some put the soul down
[00:28.60] Done heard my momma cryin if I knew what I know now
[00:31.33] I'd pro'ly have to greet the party room with the fo' pound
[00:34.95] I'm tryna keep my head on straight to keep me from catchin
[00:37.60] in case I feel my insides burnin, musta swallowed all twenty-eight
[00:40.32] I'm drinkin Milk of Magnesia, but still I ain't feelin straight
[00:43.12] Some mo' had murdered my granddad over real-estate
[00:46.75] (Hook: R. Prophit w/ sample playing in background)
[00:47.62] Represent the slums... represent the slums...
[00:49.46] Represent the slums... aww, aww, aww, aww...
[00:53.90] Represent the slums... represent the slums...
[00:55.89] Represent the slums... aww, aww, aww, aww...
[01:09.45] (Big V)
[01:11.28] Bupm it, if I put it out - suck it, if I pull it out
[01:13.99] Ohh me, ya better kick it out, or ya livin in a haunted house
[01:16.65] Ran what you tried to run, came how you tried to come
[01:20.24] Did what you couldn't do, difference between me and you
[01:22.94] Slum for a while now, country for a lifetime
[01:25.64] Cool is what I choose to be, but that ain't what I used to be
[01:28.34] Muddy waters couldn't drown a nigga, bloodhounds on the trail for real
[01:31.98] Shakin up this rattle snake, givin niggaz hell for real
[01:34.74] Turn a hold the dog deal, mucus and you hearin right
[01:37.41] National Geographic ain't, fuckin with this wildlife
[01:40.17] Hissin; I'm finna strike, rattlin; I'm finna bite
[01:43.72] Hell with a blue light, fuckin with no rules tonight!
[01:45.52] (Hook) - 2X
[02:08.15] (Scales)
[02:09.97] Now once again, you see me layin down the law
[02:11.77] These cowards tryna catch me like my hustle got a flaw
[02:14.49] Bitch I'm Southern bred
[02:15.38] That's where you break it down to raw and then you flush the rest
[02:18.02] I said you break it down to raw and then you flush the rest
[02:21.63] And I ain't playin witcha'll haters since y'all fucked up my order
[02:24.48] Got me playin with a gram, coulda been up to a quarter
[02:27.18] Now my cousin, called me up and said he finally did it
[02:30.70] Graduated from a handheld, to primary digits
[02:33.41] Cuz in the slums we don't work we just grind and gamble
[02:36.16] Guarunteed I got that shit, niggaz dyin to sample
[02:39.73] Now whattchu know about that work from the states of Georgia
[02:42.47] Cook so thick, collard, grits and water (we in the slums!)
[02:45.12] (Hook)
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