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[ar:Kool G Rap & DJ Polo]
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[00:00.52]Road to the Riches - Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
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[00:44.91]When I was five years old I realized there was a road
[00:47.38]At the end I will win lots of pots of gold
[00:49.88]Never took a break never made a mistake
[00:52.30]Took time to create \'cause there\'s money to make
[00:54.56]To be a billionaire takes hard work for years
[00:57.05]Some nights I shed a tear while I said my prayers
[00:59.50]Been through hard times even worked part-time
[01:01.91]In a Key Food store sweepin\' floors for dimes
[01:04.31]I was sort of a porter takin\' the next man\'s orders
[01:06.95]Breakin\' my back with a shack for headquarters
[01:09.28]All my man power for four bucks an hour
[01:11.82]Took my time and wrote rhymes in the shower
[01:14.28]Shoes are scuffed \'cause the road gets rough
[01:16.21]But I\'mma rock it \'cause my pockets ain\'t stuffed enough
[01:18.69]All the freaks wouldn\'t speak \'cause my checks were weak
[01:21.13]They would turn the other cheek so I started to seek
[01:23.55]A way to get a play and maybe one day
[01:25.90]I\'ll be performin\' up a storm for a decent pay
[01:28.35]No matter how it seems I always kept the dream
[01:30.71]All the girlies screamed and suckers get creamed
[01:33.49]Dreamed about it for five years straight
[01:35.55]Finally I got a break to cut my first plate
[01:38.12]The road ain\'t yellow and it ain\'t no witches
[01:40.57]My name is Kool G Rap
[01:41.48]I\'m on the road to the riches
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[01:52.29]I used to stand on the block
[01:53.62]Sellin\' cooked up rock
[01:54.84]Money bustin\' out my sock \'cause I really would clock
[01:57.27]They were for kind of fiends bringin\' jackets and jeans
[01:59.66]Magazines anything just to hustle up beans
[02:02.08]The cash was comin\' fast money grew like grass
[02:04.47]People hungry for the blast that don\'t even last
[02:06.85]Didn\'t wanna be involved but the money will get ya
[02:09.30]Gettin\' richer and richer the police took my picture
[02:11.76]But I still supplied some people I knew died
[02:14.36]Murders and homicides for bottles of suicide
[02:16.76]Money jewelry livin\' like a star
[02:18.91]And I wasn\'t too far from a Jaguar car
[02:21.20]In a small-time casino the town\'s Al Pacino
[02:23.83]For all of the girls the pretty boy Valentino
[02:26.21]I shot up stores and I kicked down doors
[02:28.70]Collected scars from little neighborhood wars
[02:31.02]Many legs I broke many necks I choked
[02:33.36]And if provoked I let the pistol smoke
[02:35.72]Loyal members in a crew now down with the game
[02:38.19]Sellin\' nickels and dimes in sunshine or rain
[02:40.60]What I had was bad from my shoes to my pad
[02:42.96]In the first time in my life
[02:44.17]Loanin\' money to dad
[02:45.34]Now the table\'s turned and my lifestyle switches
[02:47.93]My name is Kool G Rap
[02:48.87]I\'m on the road to the riches
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[02:59.95]A thug will mugs for drugs he eventually bugs
[03:02.77]Lookin\' for crack on carpets and rugs
[03:04.72]The squealers tells but the dealer still sells
[03:07.36]Little spoiled kids inheritin\' oil wells
[03:09.76]I was the type on the opposite side
[03:11.80]Of smokin\' the pipe in a beef I got hype
[03:14.21]\'Cause rags to riches switches men to witches
[03:17.21]Become stitches body bags in ditches
[03:19.22]Bloodshed I painted the town red
[03:21.66]People fled as I put a dread\'s head to bed
[03:24.25]That means dead in other words deceased
[03:26.48]Face got erased bullets got released
[03:28.93]Bombs were planted and kids were kidnapped
[03:31.14]In fact this was a way to get back
[03:33.54]At enemies who tried to clock G\'s
[03:35.88]On my block now they forever knock Z\'s
[03:38.53]Plans of rampages went for ages
[03:40.83]Some got knocked and locked inside cages
[03:43.38]Some bit the dust for crumbs and crusts
[03:45.49]In God we trust now rots to rust
[03:47.89]Bust caps to cops policeman drops
[03:50.43]They blew off his top when the pistol went pop
[03:52.90]Troopers soldiers rollin\' like boulders
[03:55.33]Eyes of hate and their hearts get colder
[03:57.76]Some young male put in jail
[04:00.17]His lawyer so good his bail is on sale
[04:02.57]Lookin\' at the hourglass how long can this power last
[04:05.03]Longer than my song but he already fell
[04:07.44]He likes to eat hearty party
[04:09.45]Be like John Gotti and drives a Maserati
[04:12.42]Rough in the ghetto but in jail he\'s Jello
[04:14.54]Mellow yellow fellow tell or hell hello
[04:17.03]One court date can turn an outlaw to an inmate
[04:19.66]The judge states ship him upstate by the Great Lakes
[04:22.03]And than a-wait and wait and wait
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[04:24.43]Until he breaks that\'s all it takes
[04:26.26]So he fakes to be a man but he can\'t stand
[04:28.84]On his own two feet because now he\'s in a New Land
[04:31.45]Rules are different and so is life
[04:33.60]When you think with a shank talk with a knife
[04:36.00]Not my lifestyle so I made a u-turn
[04:38.22]The more money I earn more money to burn
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[04:41.15]Pushin\' all buttons pullin\' all switches
[04:43.40]My name is G Rap I\'m on the road to the riches
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[04:46.94]Ho wo what what what what what
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[04:57.95]Ho what what what what