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Batter Up

Nelly

Murda Murda

2001

He's still in high school (yeah I heard that)
(It's a great day though)
A good high school out in U-City of St. Louis, Missouri
(I think his name's umm,

Batter Up

Nelly

Down Right Dirty

2001

school out in U-City of St. Louis, Missouri
(I think his name's umm, who knows,
Murphey Lee or something)

I want my name not, not said but screamed
I

11:35

Mr. Lif

Bazooka Tooth

2003

[Mr. Lif]
As Colin died, his mother cried
By the EMS survived
Said that he could be revived but they lied
Afterlife realized that water from the skies

you've killed, now I lust for you

(Cardan)
Now since I've came in the game, money and fame, I love it
But whoever thought I'd wake up one mornin with no

Of a fine Double 5 Lincoln convert

Joey offered to skip me back to the crib

I awoke to a barren driveway

And a neighbor started to chide

"Joey dumped you

so long, had to get reacquainted with the neighbors
On the block all these cash we been rakin'

Way before the rap when I was writin' verses
We was

right leg
I came a long way from them
Cookies stuck to the white bread
Juvenile delinquent trying to prove
What I was thinking (yeah)
Maneuver like I'm

From the hills of northern Ireland to the forests of the Algonquin
If you had known John Johnston, you'd have known a gentleman
All for love and love

Drop the Bomb

Brand Nubian

The Very Best of Brand Nubian

2001

devilish ways of thinking
Erasing false facts that started, with Abe Lincoln
Being great, used his weight, and freed the slaves
But did he free us?
Take

big things
JC bird gang big wing
Man upstairs pullin' big strings
Butterfly doors make the trap sing
Team too real no capping
Came a long way from

North Coast

Flesh-N-Bone

T.H.U.G.S.: Trues Humbly United Gatherin' Souls

1996

now
Cleveland, see town, nigga that we put em on tha map
Them take you ah journey ride, now they doin 2 by my side
We be comin, lemme show you what's

Drop the Bomb

Brand Nubian

One for All

1990

devilish ways of thinking
Erasing false facts that started, with Abe Lincoln
Being great, used his weight, and freed the slaves
But did he free us?
Take

better but my mama raised me broke
Came a long ass way from Lincoln St. on 15-4

Remember Big Moe posted up on that corner for so long he got walking

tonight”
The news was rockin St Louis by the morning light

CHORUS

She got so tired before the baby came 
But saloons and casinos still called his name
Now

at the store (yeah)
Got a bag, they ain't know (nah nah)

Spend a number on my sneakers (dripping)
I still got that drank by the liter (you know that)
Pour up

This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now.  They don't know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan.  They don't know if they

Slaughter much as I saw hot sauce and hot dog water
I came a long way from wishin' under the stars
But I ain't come all of this way just to say I've come

They know St.Louis bout that action
Nigga before COVID we was already masking
Toting the Kel-Tec, but this black out do magic
Came a long way, still I

sensational
Got the hunger and it's insatiable more more more more
Great white all I see is red from the bottom like louboutin store
Came up from the floor

blinded by the light show
Chopper clip long like a light pole
What you know about pink coke on a white stove
Came a Longway from cooking dope with

now
Cleveland, c town, nigga that we put em on tha map
Them take you ah journey ride, now they doin 2 by my side
We be comin, lemme show you what's

North Coast

Flesh-N-Bone

T.H.U.G.S.: Trues Humbly United Gatherin' Souls [Clean]

1996

hook now
Cleveland, see town, nigga that we put em on tha map
Them take you ah journey ride, now they doin 2 by my side
We be comin, lemme show you

the dark"

Oh, Marie Laveau (oh, Marie Laveau)
Oh, Marie Laveau (oh, Marie Laveau)
Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen
From way down yonder in New Orleans

to Dandruff the way they flaking off
I only had dreams to make it this far
Now I'm lost on my own and need to take charge
Came a long way from writing raps