Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn (mass incarceration yeah yeah)
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Straight to the Penn
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Started, 5 years old
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They plotting just to ship up the road
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They know where we from
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What we don’t know
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Know that, if they chop us down, then we won’t grow
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They know about the drugs, they’re pushing it in
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They highjacked the culture
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They’re doing us in
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They highjack the culture
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They serving us the bids
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They really want the future
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They’re coming for kids
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Yeah
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Yeah
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You’ll rise if you’re educated (Ugh)
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Keep 'em uneducated (Ugh)
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Keep 'em incarcerated
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Keep 'em divided/faded
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Give em a plea for they cases (Ugh)
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Pin 'em on all the cases
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Make it hard, like crack in the 80s
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Yeah, yeah
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Youngin', it’s us that you’re shooting
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Brother, it’s us that you’re serving
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Family, it’s us that you’re hurting
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Whip us real good, so we won’t rise |
Strip all the motivation!
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Strip all the motivation!
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Give us more interest and payments!
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Ugh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Knowledge is wealth
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Make 'em hate they self (Ugh)
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They got stocks in the rap game and the prison
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They found a way to monetize poor folks (Ugh)
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Perfecting our poverty (Yeah)
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Perfecting dishonesty
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Perfect your theology
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Martin came and they shot at him
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They’re lockin', they’re locking us up more
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The system is flaw, it’s cut-throat
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Young and we’re wilding no act right
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Running with wolves, the pack life (Yeah)
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Make dreams to get the bag right
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Make moves to get the bag right
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Running mayne
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Running mayne
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Running mayne
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Running mayne
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Running mayne
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Running mayne
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Run it
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We get our food from the government
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Soaking up game from the gang
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Boys ain’t beefing the same
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Boys been changing the game up
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My momma ain’t graduate high school
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Poor and we fight, too
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We’re black, and we’re poor and divided
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Jiggas is drowning and tired (yeah)
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Jiggas ain’t living right
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So they’re giving up they rights |
I seen it a thousand times
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Boys giving up on life (Yaaah)
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight from the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary?
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Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary?
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Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary one day?
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Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary? |
(Yeah, yeah)
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Straight to the Penn
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Strive, until they put us in the graveyard
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Fear no evil, they my people brave, yeah
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They say we woke
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We’re on some other tip
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Hate I’m they heart
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They’re on some other tip |
Hell with money like: «Where your head, young?»
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Bang in these streets, gone leave you dead young
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Couldn’t be more dead if you was dead young
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I’m tryna give you living water
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You’re stuck on bread crumbs (Jesus!)
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You get 'em hot, he gone resort to violence
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All the devil gotta do is get someone to try ya (Try yourself)
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Young black and we ain’t got no father (Where your father)
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Live reckless, den we repeat the cycle
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You need way more than a job
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Gotta start with a dream
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How you’re hungry, but ain’t hungry?
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How you’re struggling, but quitting? |
(You quitting)
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Can’t write blood on no application (Nah)
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30 years old, ain’t got no occupation
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I can be crippled by the system, or I can make a difference (Make a difference)
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They’re writing new laws… and we ain’t represented
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I need more color from the judge to the state senate
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You’re fighting for your life, don’t be the one to end it |