City High — What Would You Do

Ryan]
Boys and girls wanna hear a true story, was Saturday night, was at this real wild party, they had the liquor overflowing the cup, about 5 or 6 strippers tryna work for a buck, and I took one girl outside wit’ me, her name was Lonnie, she went to junior high wit’ me. I said,»Why you up in there dancing for cash, its been a whole lotta chang since I seen ya last. She said

[Claudette]
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What would you do if your son was home cryin all alone on the bedroom floor ’cause he’s hungry, and the only way to feed him is sleep wit’ a man for a little bit of money and his daddy’s gone somewhere smoking rock now, in and outta lockdown, I ain’t gotta job now, so for you this is justa good time but for me this what I call life.

[Robby]
Girl you ain’t the only one wit a baby, that’s no excuse to be livin all crazy, then she looked me square in the eye and said everyday I wake up hopin to die, she said nigga I know about pain ’cause me and my sister we ran away so our daddy couldn’t rape us. before I was a teenager I done and been through more shit than you can relate ta

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Whoa ooh oh
Then she said (what would you do?), get on my feet and let go of every excuse (What would you do?)’cause I wouldn’t want me baby to go through what I went through (What would you do?) Get up on my feet and stop making tired excuses (What would you do?)Girl I know that if my mother can do it, baby you can do it,yeah,yeah,yeah

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[Robby]
What would you do if your son was at home cryin all alone on the bedroom flor ’cause he’s hungryand the only way to feed him is to sleep wit a man for a little bit of money and his daddy’s gone somewhere smoking rock now, in and outta lockdown I ain’t gotta job now, so for you this just agood time but for me this is what I call life. mmmmmmmmmm come on

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