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Artist: Rapper Big Pooh
Album:  Dirty Pretty Things
Song:   Legendary Lullaby
Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com

[Rapper Big Pooh]
They don't care what the problem is
They just wanna hear the music, you can keep the biz
Niggaz don't understand how we hurtin kids
All this bullshit we feedin 'em through the years
Radio and fast food fuckin up they brain
I used to chase that same links in that crooked chain
Now the way they bring 'em up though is not the same
I was raised by my momma, not a picture frame
Older brother in the streets hit me to the game
Knowledge equals power, when them niggaz go dumb give 'em thought for showers
Gettin lost for hours, never leavin home
A prisoner in my own mind terrordome
I never carry chrome, I never sold crack
I dropped out of college, had plans of goin back
Had plans of quittin rap, but I'm neccessary
I'm tryna teach the kids something - be legendary

[Chorus]
"Never settle in life to be ordinary
 Gotta push to be legendary"
"Gotta push to be legendary" (LOUDER)
"Gotta push to be legendary"
"Never settle in life to be ordinary
 Gotta push to be legendary"

[Rapper Big Pooh]
I'm tryin to live humble, seen countries crumble
Watch the war reduce lands to a pile of rubble
And because you skatin by, you never had a chance
While you out there on the grind, they gon' switch stance
Gotta stand for something, not a new dance
Cause when the weed is all gone and the cup is empty
You are simply unhappy in your own skin
I bet depression ain't concerned what type of home you in
I need somebody to blame, somebody to name
As the source of my pain and frustration
Then it's my name that you hear, my name that you cheer
When I gain momentum chasing aspirations
Go to work, damn my reparations
You're all witnesses to one nation, in this formation
Bein great, that's hereditary
I get it from my granddaddy - be legendary

[Chorus]

[Rapper Big Pooh]
Now as I lay me down to sleep
I pray to the Lord as my soul You'll keep
And if I should die, before I wake
I pray to God it's my soul You'll take
Go to work, damn my reparations
You're all witnesses to one nation, in this formation
Bein great, that's hereditary
I get it from my granddaddy - be legendary

[Barack Obama]
"The only reason that I'm standing here today is because
 somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky.
 Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular.
 And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up.
 And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up.
 And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world."