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[al:Welcome To Durham, USA: Soundtrack]
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[00:01.070]I'd like to welcome all of you
[00:02.429]Uh huh yeah
[00:03.858]To the Bull City
[00:06.327]Better known as Durham (uh huh)
[00:08.756]Right now we in the heart of it
[00:10.256]Got the Butta Team
[00:11.636]The Butta Team
[00:12.356]Uhh Little Brother
[00:14.246]9th Wonder y'all
[00:15.486]And y'alls truly bdk style
[00:18.014]Big Daddy Kane in the house
[00:19.393]Feel me out
[00:20.502]Staring in the face of death
[00:22.000]And I'm looking in the mouth
[00:23.190]Like goddamn
[00:24.340]I found Brooklyn in the South
[00:26.040]Comin' up inside the hood
[00:27.539]Is due to curse you
[00:28.599]But coming up inside the hood is universal
[00:31.109]The shells from the ratchet
[00:32.659]They spit the same
[00:33.799]As well when they clap it
[00:35.178]They hit the same
[00:36.308]The Dutch and the Backwoods
[00:37.878]Get spit the same
[00:38.908]You ask me why I'm down here
[00:40.317]I'm like"Sh*t the same"
[00:41.527]Folks be mostly moving low key
[00:43.837]Trying to make the dough be grossly ot
[00:46.596]Who surely be out handling sh*t right
[00:49.306]And let off more rounds
[00:50.285]Than a championship fight
[00:51.865]Them die against me
[00:53.414]And we can take it from ny to nc
[00:55.973]It's simply that anywhere you at
[00:58.121]You can still be hood
[00:59.619]My niggaz in the dirty dirty
[01:01.099]What's really good
[01:02.167]These streets out here take a lot to run
[01:04.505]When you claim gangsta
[01:05.704]If you're not you're done
[01:07.134]On your grind can't nobody stop you son
[01:09.683]Lick a shot up in the air (blaow)
[01:11.082]What block you from
[01:12.481]These streets out here take a lot to run
[01:14.911]When you claim gangsta
[01:16.111]If you're not you're done
[01:17.501]On your grind
[01:18.400]Can't nobody stop you son
[01:20.030]Lick a shot up in the air (blaow)
[01:21.609]What block you from
[01:22.589]Uhh
[01:23.289]Durham nc the place
[01:24.419]Where I reside at
[01:25.768]The Eastside is the place
[01:27.117]Where they ride at
[01:28.377]Any vice to get high
[01:29.566]Well you can buy that
[01:30.875]Test them country boys
[01:32.354]Wouldn't try that
[01:33.434]Cause niggaz is off the chaing right here
[01:35.854]Just cause it's the South
[01:36.693]Don't get the wrong idea
[01:38.493]You can get stained like on walls at Ikea
[01:41.092]I declare niggaz have the wrong idea
[01:43.302]From ego pride to where colors collide
[01:45.921]Fam vills
[01:46.640]Streets fiends brought the cracks for hire
[01:48.639]Older folk down here look hard to work sire
[01:51.287]Call my ni**a Tramp
[01:52.406]What's the haps on that
[01:53.565]Is that a bus you get around in
[01:54.925]Fours get clapped at
[01:56.275]Go down on Brother Spree
[01:57.535]Where they shaking like craps
[01:58.854]Hustlers reminisce
[02:00.224]What's the god who's back
[02:01.454]"Medicine City" how funny is that
[02:04.613]Yelling your name in every hood out there
[02:06.402]No you can't
[02:07.212]Cause it ain't such a good idea
[02:08.911]Little Brother
[02:09.720]And we putting it down tonight
[02:11.579]Big Daddy Kane
[02:12.548]Coming back for the crown tonight
[02:14.996]Yelling your name in every hood out there
[02:16.726]No you can't
[02:17.475]Cause it ain't such a good idea
[02:19.414]Dirty Durham
[02:20.114]They ain't playing around tonight
[02:22.093]The Butta Team
[02:22.733]Them boys laying it down tonight
[02:24.382]I only been here for six years
[02:26.022]But the city is in me
[02:27.261]I can feel it when I walk
[02:28.501]Or when I whisper something
[02:29.710]And every time I spit
[02:31.399]I drive you to your death
[02:32.648]Tination like I got a lisp or something
[02:35.036]And if your gums get to bumping
[02:36.343]Them boys hit the button
[02:37.692]For room service to come give you the toast
[02:40.151]Dirty Durham
[02:41.120]We got niggaz with scholarships
[02:42.670]And niggaz with hollow tips
[02:44.000]And I know niggaz with both
[02:45.329]That'll shoot until the block is drama-free
[02:47.408]From niggaz like you acting up
[02:49.217]Like they Oscar nominees
[02:50.736]You mighta been in the club
[02:52.056]And popped that wallet
[02:53.315]Hit the gym for a month
[02:54.575]And maybe got rock solid
[02:55.594]But in the Bull City
[02:57.094]They will send dudes to you
[02:58.474]Just to prove to you
[02:59.623]You are not that brolic not
[03:01.352]And they ain't asking for God's permission
[03:03.160]They asking for God's forgiveness
[03:04.870]For bein' poverty-stricken
[03:05.989]Stressed out and scarred from living
[03:07.718]Better guard your business
[03:09.028]You ain't earning bars ni**a
[03:10.438]Stop drawing attention
[03:11.796]It's evident this is as real as it gets
[03:13.726]In the City of Medicine
[03:14.894]Them Durham niggaz is sick
[03:16.224]These streets out here
[03:17.654]Take a lot to run
[03:19.024]When you claim gangsta
[03:20.184]If you're not you're done
[03:21.464]On your grind
[03:22.484]Can't nobody stop you son
[03:24.003]Lick a shot up in the air (blaow)
[03:25.682]What block you from
[03:26.661]These streets out here
[03:28.011]Take a lot to run
[03:29.211]When you claim gangsta
[03:30.451]If you're not you're done
[03:31.871]On your grind
[03:32.770]Can't nobody stop you son
[03:34.450]Lick a shot up in the air (blaow)
[03:36.069]What block you from
[04:10.255]Welcome 2 Durham - Various Artists