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"I've Been Praying for All Them Shooting My City" · Yasukay's Verse | Temple Studio, Philadelphia

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0:00All of these are feelings. Oh, wait, wait, give me my phone. I got to get how it is. I showed you I’m running on cool. I’mma go get how I should. You know that I’m running on cool. I tried to set up a wall of things that we cannot do. But you going to knock it down. You know you going to follow. Sirens go off. I’m calling my [bleeped] that see. I told you all I got hundred new racks for brothers, my [bleeped] I see. And all the cash spent on the blood that you spilled on the concrete. And if I find some sauce, you know call

0:31on my phone. I ain’t got no time. I don’t see. And now I’m bad. Sometimes the [bleeped] I be saying is out of my mind. At least I can say is that once you start working you get it. I’ll never lie. At least I’ve been praying for all them times that showed up in my city July. I’m getting some bread, my [bleeped] Come rise. I go and get it and feel for the fires. The stoves, my [bleeped] don’t talk about the highs, the hoes. you [bleeped] need God. I know I get I’m talking about the highs, the bros, the [bleeped] the rocks for the fires. The

0:57guys that supposed to be [bleeped] were high. I know you [bleeped] I got to run my mouth.

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