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Get up and touch it |
| [00:36.592]Get up and touch the sky, come on [7x] |
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I gotta testify |
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Come up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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Before the day I die, I'mma touch the sky tonight |
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Testify |
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I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky |
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Back when they thought pink Polos would hurt the Roc |
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Before Cam got them hits to pop |
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The doors was closed, I felt like Bad Boy's street team |
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I couldn't work the locks |
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Now let's go, take 'em back to the plan |
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Me and my momma hopped in that U-Haul van |
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Any pessimists I ain't talk to them |
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Plus I ain't have no phone in my apart-a-ment |
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Take 'em back to the club |
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Least about an hour I stand on line |
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I just wanted to dance, I went to Jacob an hour |
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After I got my advance, I just wanted to shine |
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Jay favorite line: "Dawg, in due time!" |
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Now he look at me, like, "Damn, dawg! You where I am!" |
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A hip-hop legend, I think I died |
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In a accident, cause this must be heaven |
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Testify |
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I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky |
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Testify |
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I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky |
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Testify |
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I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky |
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Now let's take them hi-ah-igh-igh-igh-ighhhh |
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(Top of the world baby) |
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(Top top of the world) |
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Now let's take them hi-ah-igh-igh-igh-ighhhh |
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(Top of the world baby) |
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(On top of the world) |
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Back when Gucci was the hits to rock |
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Back when Slick Rick had the shit to pop |
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I'd do anything to say I got it |
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Damn, them new loafers hurt my pocket |
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Before anybody wanted K. West beats |
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Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC |
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Dog, I was having nervous breakdowns |
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Like "Man - these niggas that much better than me?" |
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Baby, I'm going on an airplane |
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And I don't know if I'll be back again |
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Sure enough, I sent the plane tickets |
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But when she came to kick it, things became different |
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Any girl I cheated on, sheets I skeeted on |
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Couldn't keep it at home, thought I needed a Nia Long |
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I'm trying to right my wrongs |
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But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song |
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Testify |
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I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky tonight |
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Testify |
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I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly |
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'Fore the day you die, you ganna touch the sky |
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Now say: I'm, I'm sky high |
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say: I'm, I'm sky high |
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say: I'm, I'm sky high |
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Feels good to be home, feels good to be home |
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Are y'all happy you came to VH1 Storytellers? |
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Get up and touch the sky, come on |
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I am so disappointed, that I cannot see me perform |
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Except for on playback |
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My greatest pain in life, is that I'll never see me perform |
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So you are welcome to know a pleasure, that I will never have |
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| [04:45.062]Come on [20x] |
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This song is what inspired 808's and Heartbreak more than anything |
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Because we used do this at the end of the tour every night |
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And I would do it for – how many of you saw the Glow In The Dark tour in the room tonight? |
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Thank you so much, for coming to the tour |
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So y’all remember at the end of the show I would do this song |
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And I would say some inspirational words and I would sing |
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And I had the opportunity to just kind of do it and play it off |
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But I discovered that I love to sing |
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So much and to my thing and harmonize and just go up and down and just **** around |
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I really feel like a vessel |
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And I open my mouth and God will let beautiful words flow through |
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That’s why I realized that he chose me and he has a path for me |
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Because half the things that come out, I can’t be responsible for |
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And I guess he just wants me to say more and more and more and never be insecure and always be sure, be sure |
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And he will give me the strength I need to endure, for sure |
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As I tour and bring the pure |
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So much more, more, for sure |
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For your entertainment, education and relation |
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To take away your hesitation and segregation |
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In a country full of immigrants, where no one really was born here, but separated here |
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It’s a beautiful thing that in a country that was so divided by the concept of black and white |
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We now have a black and white president |
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And this is what the future is to me |
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The juxtaposition: two things that you think don’t go together |
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When a black, super-Hip-Hop-dressed dude gets on an elevator and there’s an old lady with Chanel and she grabs her purse |
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I’ll give you a cliché example |
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What would happen if they actually talk to each other? |
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What would she learn? What would he learn? |
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When the rich man hopping out the Lincoln Town Car, passes by the homeless person |
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And they actually talk to each other |
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What would he learn? What would he learn? |
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If a black man, that came from Chicago and was taught to stand so far away from gay people, ‘cause you do not want to be accused of being gay |
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Was to talk to a gay person |
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What would he learn? What did I learn? |
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I learned that people in Chicago was wrong |
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And I’ve been an asshole all along |
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A lot of things that you learn are wrong |
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So don’t be an asshole too long, too long, too long |
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You can’t be an asshole too long |
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You can’t be an asshole too long |
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‘Cause the more you know, the more you grow, the more responsibility you have show what you know |
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And give everything that you got to give, baby that’s the reason God let me live through the accident without practicing |
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Okay, got to bring this up and bring it back again |
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Okay, okay, okay, okay |
| [09:24.681]Alright [7x] |
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No publishing Outkast, please |
| [09:29.979]Alright [5x] |
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Shout out to three G’s |
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One of the few dressed quite as fresh as me |
