Nobody's Smiling (Album Version|Explicit)-Common

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[00:00.00]Nobody's Smiling (Album Version|Explicit) - Common/Malik Yusef
[00:19.63]I'm from Chicago nobody's smiling
[00:22.04]Niggaz wyling on Stoney Island
[00:24.07]Where the chief and the president come from
[00:26.66]Pop out pop pills pop guns
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[00:29.66]On the deck when the ops come
[00:31.54]Pop some ops run
[00:33.40]This ain't a game ni**a ain't no options
[00:36.03]Niggaz sellin on the block like an auction
[00:38.32]Dig into my pockets see a profit
[00:40.22]Where the money and the b**ches is
[00:41.82]Where the gods is
[00:42.77]Godfathers in the lodges at the spot
[00:45.06]Holdin money like a hostage
[00:46.71]She went ostrich from the projects with posture
[00:49.99]I draw with the goddess like an artist
[00:52.09]Gettin paper with no margins money gods
[00:54.62]I do it for Hadiya and Trayvon Martin yo
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[01:16.83]In the Chi ain't a damn thing funny
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[01:19.27]Thinkin of ways to get money
[01:20.98]Drive down Lake Shore
[01:22.13]Schemin how to make more
[01:23.54]If we ain't eatin together
[01:24.69]What is this cake for
[01:25.83]Ain't nobody givin it that's what we take for
[01:28.26]Niggaz is broke what I need a break for
[01:30.61]Glaciers of ice lasers and lice
[01:32.58]Let the chains glow heavy we paid for 'em twice
[01:35.31]Made for the life ball out like we out of bounds
[01:37.92]Bars and guns niggaz got a lot of rounds
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[01:41.12] Trippin like you from out of town
[01:42.58]The fo'-pound'll leave you
[01:43.73]On the ground without a sound
[01:45.04]Ain't no fathers 'round
[01:46.12]Sons of Anarchy
[01:47.45]Fightin attempts trafficking and grand larceny
[01:49.72]At the party with the thots with the extra body
[01:52.03]I'm in the inner city
[01:53.44]It's an out-of-body experience
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[02:32.60]Face on T-shirts with no hashtags
[02:35.42]Just big-a** trash bags tagged hash
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[02:38.59]Out here sh*t been trill
[02:41.02]Fake-a** gangster
[02:42.48]Quick to take a fag's cash
[02:44.45]Five versus six Star Wars
[02:47.30]No stickers real bullet holes in car doors
[02:50.21]Out of ten people that was shot 7 ate 9's
[02:53.89]Two trey 8's and one fo'-fives
[02:57.81]Tryna get to two-threes the numbers game
[03:01.18]Then here come the fame
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[03:03.27]But they won't say no names
[03:04.71]
[03:05.69]Are these celebrities way too shy
[03:08.15]To be loyal to the town
[03:09.85]I take my publishing check
[03:11.51]And spread my royalties around
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[03:14.02]Popes bishops disciples stones
[03:17.28]Counts princes lords queens and kings
[03:20.95]They drillin on my land but ain't no oil to be found
[03:24.43]I might be part of the problem
[03:26.18]
[03:27.08]I guess they just tryna prove
[03:28.81]They can back that sh*t up
[03:30.82]Most of them can't e'en moonwalk
[03:32.50]My lil' cousin Bump J don't know
[03:34.32]What he did when he introduced that goon talk
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[03:37.38]Is there a Scarface castin at the crib
[03:39.60]I don't know about
[03:40.73]So many shortys have tried out for the role
[03:43.55]That's why he slide out and ride out with the pole
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[03:46.86]Now I see how my daddy felt
[03:48.49]The dark day he discovered
[03:49.94]That black power didn't keep the lights on
[03:52.56]Right on the dearly departed still rappin to you
[03:55.91]Lookin for some yellow white red black
[03:57.99]Brown flesh to write on
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[04:00.65]How long will they mourn me
[04:02.19]After I'm out of mind out of sight gone
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[04:05.34]A crash a head-on collision affects both riders the most
[04:09.38]G O O D Music in the building
[04:11.32]Yeah we got ghost writers
[04:13.16]They just actually ghosts