Checkin' out the Ave.-Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard

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[00:00.00]Checkin' out the Ave. - Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard
[00:01.17]Gotta check out the avenue
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[00:09.87]Living in the big city not just New York every hometown
[00:12.46]Has a place where things are known for going down
[00:14.80]Where you can learn a lot of things that you shouldn't know
[00:17.24]It's a place where people tell ya that ya shouldn't go
[00:19.42]All the kids that go dere they end up misled
[00:21.81]Cause of a hardhead some of 'em turn up dead
[00:24.19]Mothers cry as they identify their child y'know
[00:26.74]In the morgue wearing a tag on their big toe
[00:28.90]I'm saying listen you should go to school and learn
[00:31.22]But fast cash and respect is what you wanna earn
[00:33.58]So you stand for days and days on the ave
[00:36.08]To make enough to get the things that you didn't have
[00:38.36]Getting five for the vial some two for seven
[00:40.65]But losing out on your childhood's what you're really getting
[00:42.98]But if that's the way you get respect I pity you
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[00:56.94]Living in the big city the big city is where I come from
[00:59.75]Not the slums but where poor is many more than none
[01:01.97]A young man grows up and then grows to rump
[01:04.25]With the girls wild now got a child and he's stuck
[01:06.59]Dirt poor hits the block he's selling the rock
[01:08.85]Gets nabbed by the cops hits the cell block
[01:11.15]Listening to lou rawls while looking at the blue walls
[01:13.40]Of a jail cell cause he tried life and he failed
[01:16.00]So now the hardest job is keeping a smile
[01:18.36]Stay in line for survival in the penile
[01:20.73]This is your worst nightmare how cheery it isn't
[01:23.06]None of your family or friends don't even come to visit
[01:25.47]So you're forced into a line of behavior
[01:27.79]Cause you don't wanna catch scars from a razor
[01:30.08]And it's your fault you couldn't make it I pity you
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[01:52.92]The city never sleeps I stay awake 247 days a week
[01:56.14]Thinking bout all the things that I consider deep
[01:58.33]Literally ladies live life lonely singing the blues
[02:00.90]And to make matters worse the eye witness news
[02:03.15]From anything to everything that's under the sun
[02:05.47]What's next a mother using her son for sex
[02:07.82]Bad lives battered wives hiding they black eyes
[02:10.21]And then they decide their husband has got to die
[02:12.58]She's on trial there goes another broken family
[02:14.97]Unless she gets off on temporary insanity
[02:17.28]Then there's a single mother her man deserted her
[02:19.54]Two year old grows up to be a mass murderer
[02:21.89]There ain't nobody around that's left to raise 'em straight
[02:24.40]There ain't nothing we can do but sit back and wait
[02:26.77]A sad life to live some pity me too
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