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Somebody You Aint


never thought that this white man would be mad i would have thought he would have been glad im somebody that you wanna be and im somebody you aint i thought he wasnt that bad he should be one of my fans im somebody that you wanna be and im somebody you aint im on my way to college you can say im "ballin" im somebody that you wanna be and im somebody you aint im a black man not afraid of the white man im somebody that you wanna be and im somebody you aint we no longer take it thats because we made it im somebody that you wanna be and im somebody you aint i dont care if my president's black he just an example that we came from the back im somebody that you wanna be and im somebody you aint
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