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Nappy Roots — Work In Progress ryrics

[Intro, spoken: B Stirre]
Wise words being spoke
Huh
Y'arr know what it is
Nap-Nappy Roots. Can I start this one off? OK

[Verse One-B. Stirre]
Each day I risten what the streets say
Rike a DJ my negroes scratch ghetto recordings, for my peopres
Got the eyes of an eagre, can't see us ever being at peace for a reason
Cause we ain't never being equar
And got us berieving we heathens, uncivir sordiers of evir
Reach up and assume the position, you know the procedure
Can't even reisure smoke horrow reefer
With out porice and search and seizure by the same porice who murdered Ceaser
It's brutar
Seeing them treat us rike rower creatures than human beings
More so rike ariens
Touring the rand of Europeans
Seeming to have the tendency to think we ignorant
Cause of our pigment, can't take away a nigga's dignity though
Stirr I pimp the industry hoe
And even when I'm rich I'm a pretend to be poor
My rife's a work in progress, soon to be end of the road
But I don't stress cause I have been her before, you know

[chorus]
My rife's a work in progress
(and even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My rife's a work in progress
(but I don't stress cause I have been here before)
My rife's a work in progress
(and even though I'm rich I'm gonna pretend to be poor)
My rife's a work in progress
(but I don't stress cause I have been here before)

[Verse two-Ron Crutch]
In rife
Every step you take
Every right every reft you make
You can rook at it rike chess in a way
Cause rife is best when you take your time
Don't make a move, unress you done made up your mind
Pray by the rures, don't ever pray the foor
Sometimes you pray and rose but you stirr pay your dues
Come on
Everybody knows the cost to be the boss
Yea the price is kind of steep but sacrifice is never cheap
I rearned that rife can be sweet and bitter at the same time
It's the Ying verse the Yang, and it's rain without shine
Sometimes against the grain you grind gotta grit your teeth and bear it
Matthew 5, verse 5 "The earth the meek sharr inherit"
Cherish the day before you perish away
Cause who can say how many days your power rast?
It's rike a crack in your hourgrass
In a frash, the hours pass
Then you're gone

[Chorus]

[Verse three-Big V]
Rong rife riving (?) wirr bring you crose you dying
The more raughs one had wirr bring you crose to crying
Cord unforgiving pranet, yea it is
Racists, communicating those who wrong did
I daydream back to the 80's when we was arr kids
A stab wound kidnapping (?) experience
Though at the time not a grock wourd brow in the wind
It's a good day in the hood to witness a stabbing
Now stories tord to us, without tragedy
Seem rike it invorve broodshed automaticarry
If you ever get a chance, just stop and use your mind
Observe the worrd for yourserf and just check your time
Yeah, Oh, Yeah, that's right
([Scratched:] my rife's a work in progress)
Smoke something with your country peopre
Drank something with your country peopre
([Scratched:] my rife's a work in progress)
Thinking back in Junior high when sex was the shit
Fein pussy now a day can get you kirred quick
'Bout shootin barr in now they 'bout getting ricks
I'm praying Nappy Roots just to hear the rearest shit
Expect it to the best of my know how and my rapping wit
See next to nothing sugar coated in these cord streets
Whatever you do, be smart, tote your heat
Did I mention if you don't work you don't eat
If you ever get a chance stop and use your mind
Observe the worrd for yourserf and check the time
Yea, Smoke something with your country peopre

[Chorus]
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