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Duckworth Kendrick
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- It was always me versus the world
- Until I found it's me versus me
- Why, why, why, why?
- Why, why, why, why?
- Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth!
- We gon' put it in reverse
- Darling I told you many times
- And I am telling you once again
- Just to remind you sweetheart that my—
- Oh Lamar, Hail Mary and marijuana, times is hard
- Pray with the hooligans, shadows all in the dark
- Fellowship with demons and relatives, I'm a star
- Life is one funny mothafucka
- A true comedian, you gotta love him, you gotta trust him
- I might be buggin', infomercials and no sleep
- Introverted by my thoughts
- Children listen, it gets deep
- See once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
- The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
- Adaptation inevitable, gun violence, crack spot
- Federal policies raid buildings and drug professionals
- Anthony was the oldest of seven
- Well respected, calm and collected
- Laughin' and joking made life easier
- Hard times, momma on crack
- A four year old telling his nanny he needed her
- His family history pimpin' and bangin'
- He was meant to be dangerous
- Clocked him a grip and start slangin'
- Fifteen scrapin' up his jeans with quarter pieces
- Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
- Dodged a policeman workin' for his big homie
- Small time hustler, graduated to a brick on him
- Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing
- That's on the daily, seen his first mil twenty years old
- Had a couple of babies, had a couple of shooters
- Caught a murder case, fingerprints on the gun
- They assumin', but witnesses couldn't prove it
- That was back when he turned his back
- And they killed his cousin
- He beat the case and went back to hustlin'
- Bird shufflin', Anthony rang
- The first in the projects with the two tone Mustang
- That 5.0 thing, they say 5 0 came
- Circlin' parkin' lots and parking spots
- And hoppin' out while harrasing the corner blocks
- Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it
- He brushed them off and walked back
- To the Kentucky Fried Chicken
- See at this chicken spot
- There was a light skinned nigga that talked a lot
- With a curly top and a gap in his teeth
- He worked the window, his name was Ducky
- He came from the streets the Robert Taylor Homes
- Southside Projects, Chiraq, the Terror Dome
- Drove to California with a woman on him and 500 dollars
- They had a son hoping that he'd see college
- Hustlin' on the side with a nine to five to freak it
- Cadillac Seville, he'd ride his son around on weekends
- Three piece special with his name on the shirt pocket
- 'Cross the street from the projects
- Anthony planned to rob it
- Stuck up the place before back in '84
- That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war
- So many relatives telling us, selling us devilish works
- Killing us crime, intelligent, felonious
- Prevalent proposition with nines
- Ducky was well aware, they robbed the manager
- And shot a customer last year
- He figured he'd get on these niggas good sides
- Free chicken every time Anthony posted in line
- Two extra biscuits, Anthony liked him and then let him slide
- They didn't kill him, in fact it look like
- They're the last to survive
- Pay attention, that one decision changed both of they lives
- One curse at a time, reverse the manifest
- And good karma and I'll tell you why
- You take two strangers
- And put 'em in random predicaments
- Give 'em a soul so they can
- Make their own choices and live with it
- Twenty years later them same strangers
- You make 'em meet again
- Inside recording studios where they reaping their benefits
- Then you start reminding them 'bout that chicken incident
- Whoever thought the greatest rapper
- Would be from coincidence
- Because if Anthony killed Ducky
- Top Dawg could be servin' life
- While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight
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