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[00:53.00]Yeah I'm from the city where they buck and they juke in the parking lot
[00:59.00]Yeah we tip-toe 'round the block but the neighbors still call the cops
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[01:04.00]Yeah good intention misconstrued
[01:07.00]I ain't tryna get locked up
[01:09.00]Gotta give back to what give you life
[01:12.00]I'm just tryna build my block up
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[01:26.00]Venus like Otherlands
[01:29.00]Corner like a fly trap
[01:31.00]Yeah Midtown motherland
[01:33.00]Mental marathons
[01:35.00]I run mind laps
[01:37.00]The city sing to me
[01:39.00]Train whistle harmony with it
[01:43.00](train whistle blows)
[01:46.00]Momma found the matches underneath my bed
[01:49.00]and she like "where the weed boy, where the cigarettes at?"
[01:52.00]Nuh uh uh uh
[01:53.00]Momma you don't understand
[01:54.00]The block lit a fire underneath your little man
[01:57.00]Yeah see I done grown up on boom bap
[02:00.00]Kwik Chek, bim bop
[02:01.00]Zaywop taught me
[02:03.00]Tennessee could pop
[02:04.00]Hood rock First stone
[02:05.00]Skip both, stay home, lay low
[02:07.00]Say I'm closet like Draco
[02:10.00]I borrowed shadows
[02:11.00]That's alone
[02:13.00]The neighborhood drew me a rainbow
[02:15.00]I borrowed shadows
[02:16.00]That's a loan
[02:18.00]The neighborhood drew me a rainbow
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[02:32.00]Yeah I'm from the city where they buck and they juke in the parking lot
[02:37.00]Yeah we tip-toe 'round the block but the neighbors still call the cops
[02:42.00]Yeah good intention misconstrued
[02:45.00]I ain't tryna get locked up
[02:48.00]Gotta give back to what give you life
[02:51.00]I'm just tryna build my block up