Lauryn:
Can it be I stayed away too long
Did I leave your mind when I was gone?
Well its not my thing trying to get back
But this time let me tell you where Im at
Said I wanna be where you are
Everywhere you are
I gotta gotta be where you are
Everywhere you are
Wyclef:
Everybody got a brother that rap, a sister that sings
A cousin that sling, and uncle upstate (bing)
Beef on the block, war with the cops
Farmers with crops, shovels in they hand
Screaming legalize the Peter Tosh they even got,
Hip hop cups, follow me red dots,
Keep a camcorder just in case they wanna frame the author,
Caught you off guard this verse is unexpected,
Listen, Like when I rhymed on Big Puns record
I got a swagger that cut any rapper, mind over matter
Lyrical dagger, like alcohol Im bad for your liver,
Quiver, shiver, body temperature
Get found in Hudson River,
Deliver a message to your mom, you wont be coming home,
The runner becomes the gunner, the gunner becomes the hunter,
The hunter becomes the hunted, on Americas Most Wanted,
I reminisce, had no cash for the mall
But excited tonight cuz we the opening act for Biggie Smalls
Said I wanna be where you are
Everywhere you are
I gotta gotta be where you are
Everywhere you are
We entered into hip hop, we were young gifted and boundless
Attracted to the freedom, courage, power, profoundness,
We had our pretensions, dissensions, conventions,
But there was (remember), we were open to the challenge,
Then came the fame, money, notoriety, hypocrisy, then anxiety,
Most of us suffered quietly,
From PR to ER, our freedom got detoured,
Truth turned to folklore, youths turned to coke whore,
Escaped from reality, afraid of exposure,
Prior denied closure, did what they told ya,
Agendas and egos, they began to live through us,
Started to take from us, what they was supposed to give to us,
Distorted dynamics, making egos gigantic,
emotional artists got bought, sold, and d-d-damaged,
black disadvantaged, no facts, ask, mismanaged,
bad contracts the standard, take land back demand it,
Said I wanna be where you are
Everywhere you are
I gotta gotta be where you are
Everywhere you are
Pras:
Yo its the most blunted, yeah, the most wanted,
House of Fugee stay the most haunted,
Guys and dolls, young bright, on it
Ten years later, aint it ironic,
Straight 16s, up the spleen,
Triple beam like Sinatra, Davis, and Dean,
Everything in between, if you know what I mean,
Wanna be where you are is the Amerikkkan dream,
But I was often told, I was off my road,
Never sold my soul, for the glitter of gold,
Let the truth be told, I made the mold,
Twenty-three years, twenty million sold,
It be classic man, like spaghetti westerns
Blackberry style, always texting.
Bombing on your dial, Funkmaster flexing
Its the raw hip-hop to keepem guessing.
I wanna be, I wanna be, ooooh, yeah yeah yeah
I gotta be, I gotta be, yeah yeah
I wanna be, I wanna be, oooooh, hey hey baby
I gotta be, I gotta be, yeah yeah
Said I wanna be where you are
Everywhere you are
I gotta gotta be where you are
Everywhere you are |
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