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[ar:Dee-1]
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[00:00.06]3 s Up - Dee-1
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[00:03.60]One love, keep it real it all times, sometimes too real
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[00:12.62]And when you see them 3 s up
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[00:15.38]Man, you already know
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[00:17.84]Already know what that means yeah
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[00:21.55]Now when you see them 3 s up you know what they represent
[00:25.48]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[00:28.17]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[00:30.97]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[00:32.76]Now when you see them 3 s up you know what they represent
[00:36.45]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[00:39.17]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[00:41.93]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[00:43.74]I live it more than I talk it, walk it more than I bark it
[00:46.86]Standing for something real so I made myself a target
[00:49.68]Yelling
[00:49.83]I hope they hear me well, I think they heard us
[00:52.32]From those who flip burgers to the white-collar rich burglars
[00:55.45]I got a purpose, it got the enemy nervous
[00:57.69]But God gave me the stage, it s a must that I flourish
[01:00.81]Giving  em courage even when they discouraged
[01:03.34]Me no feed  em lies, feed  em brain food get  em nourished
[01:06.53]It tastes so good, this go from my hood to yo  hood
[01:09.53]I m up to greatness I m up to no good
[01:12.09]I coulda been rich, but that s another story
[01:14.62]I m tryna do it in a way to bring my mother
[01:17.04]Glory and bring my father honor
[01:18.80]They call me Jeffrey Dahmer, eating wack rappers alive,
[01:21.49]I m the hip hop piranha
[01:22.98]And when I say wack, I don t mean your rhymes wack
[01:25.75]I mean your content sucks, I can t co-sign that
[01:28.57]Look at these mean mugs
[01:29.87]Man everytime I come around everybody got these mean mugs
[01:33.29]I be like
[01:33.81]What s up with these mean mugs
[01:35.40]They be like
[01:36.03]Dee, why smile?
[01:37.04]Man, you know how long
[01:37.85]It s been since I seen love
[01:39.61]10% of people live the life they dreamed of
[01:42.35]The other 90 make the best with what they got
[01:44.65]I don t focus on the not the negative or the no
[01:47.41]I just focus on the top, I gotta get it
[01:49.54]Let s go
[01:49.85]Now when you see them 3 s up you know what they represent
[01:53.58]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[01:56.48]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[01:59.12]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[02:01.01]Now when you see them 3 s up you know what they represent
[02:04.67]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[02:07.49]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[02:10.24]Be real
[02:10.65]Yo, see what I taught him in 6th grade, it set in by the 7th
[02:15.01]He applied it by 8th so he was mature as a freshman
[02:17.75]Then sophomore year he kinda got off track
[02:20.27]His family problems had me thinking  bout adopting that cat
[02:22.99]But I didn t cuz I was going through some things of my own
[02:25.77]I was inconsistent and we lost touch before long
[02:28.59]Look, then two years later man I tell you no lie
[02:31.43]I was walking on Canal when I ran into my guy
[02:33.98]The teardrops under his eyes brought teardrops to my eyes
[02:36.70]The teardrops under his eyes brought teardrops to my eyes, look
[02:39.98]I took my hands and tried to wipe  em away
[02:42.42]He said
[02:42.97]Nah big brother, them there here to stay
[02:45.28]Hey, what you expect when you neglect an adolescent
[02:48.00]That s already a wreck from Compton to Tibet
[02:50.65]We got the tender lives of these youngsters in our hands
[02:53.53]And I know that I done dropped the ball before, man
[02:56.14]Now when you see them 3 s up you know what they represent
[02:59.82]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[03:02.60]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[03:05.34]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
[03:07.19]Now when you see them 3 s up you know what they represent
[03:10.86]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[03:13.67]Be real, be righteous, be relevant
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[03:16.45]Be real, be righteous
[03:17.74]Yo, I m finna pour out my heart on the third verse please
[03:21.09]My homie got a disease that ll make most people freeze
[03:23.92]Or fall to they knees, you knows how it be s
[03:26.82]What kills most people he handles with ease
[03:29.99]And when it comes to spiritual matters, we real different
[03:32.65]We argue for hours, in the end we still feel different
[03:35.39]See, I believe in God and he don t so we don t see eye to eye
[03:38.60]But we won t be blinded by the evil
[03:40.55]That try to divide the people whose minds collide for peace so
[03:43.37]We try to find equal ground to stand on
[03:46.23]See God is love and love is God
[03:48.73]So the love I show my man might guide him to God
[03:51.09]Who woulda thought?
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[03:54.10]I d rather be a walking testimony than a talking phony homie
[03:57.87]But I ll holla at you in the next song
[04:00.23]Cuz right now, I m too deep in the zone