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Yeah you know, just vibe with me one time
Understand my life come on
And y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
Hey yo I eat good, smoke good
You see I push the latest whips with the hottest bitch
Take trips to the coast of Bermudas
But dog I'm from flush Ave where I pop toast for aruba
And I am proud of myself
'Cause me true dog, never acted, never lie to myself
I've been in Hollywood and back, guess what I'm still
I'm sayin' number from the blue tops days, I'm still him
You dudes think I'm touring like I'm part of you and out
But is just about the performance, get the money we out
Try to chill, I try to take the wife they eat
But most girl, disrespectful when they tryin' to speak, as if
They don't understand, let me live, ma
I'm with my fam, let me live

And I try to be nice about being disrespectful
One gets respects, when you show one respect too
But y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
But y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
Hey yo I take you back home every chance I get
Because I've been through every ghetto, but home I can't forget
Wish I could take 'em all, on this ride with me
But it wont be real, if you asked it ain't be reality
I only fucked with a few and if you real you know
Soon you go, if not, you don't, yeah
We still family right, that's what you leave me to believe
But y'all don't understand my life
I took Dre down to south beach
Just to show him what a few ones to do
When you amongst your crew, we living
I never pictured I could ever loose him
But I found myself with the thoughts I could loose him
I put the stash up, I'm just trying to save his life
Just moved moms, had to moved her twice, down to Miami
I thank God everyday of my life, I could provide for my family
But y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
But y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
Hey yo, my brother survive, now everybody's doing fine
I kept my moms away, to let her enjoy life
I wish I could do the same, but I can't, there's work to do
Rent due, there's more work to do
I copped bikes let my niggaz ride them
I copped coupes, let my niggaz drive them
I'm proud to see my niggaz wilding, 'cause I remember them days
They still vivid of me, huggin' the block, young soul committed
When I wrote rhymes daily
To get my flow up, pray one day the whole world could hear me
I love it when the crowd recited every word of it
When they bounce, let me know that they all a part of it
That two things make me proud of my life
I thought I had it all, but the best gift was life
The third gem I'ma brand new father
Of a healthy baby boy and it's making me work harder
But y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
But y'all don't understand me still, I never enjoyed success
But my family will and I'm alright with that
Y'all don't know, y'all don't know
And I'm alright with that, yes I am
All this cold nights risking my life, but it's all good
Yeah I'm misunderstood, y'all don't know

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Malik Thuston Cox (born on June 23, 1978) better known as Memphis Bleek, is a Brooklyn rapper who made his first appearance in Hip Hop on Jay-Z's debut album, Reasonable Doubt in 1996. Memphis Bleek regularly came in contact with rap legends such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z during his childhood, and has collaborated with artists such as Beanie Sigel, Ja Rule and Missy Elliott, among others. "Memphis" is an acronym for Making Easy Money Pimping Hoes In Style.

Early years

Memphis "One Hit Away" Bleek's first mainstream rap vocals appeared on the Clark Kent produced song "Coming of Age", featured on Jay-Z's classic debut LP Reasonable Doubt. Shortly after, Bleek became the first artist signed to Roc-A-Fella Records.

"Coming of Age", ironiclly, was also the title of Memphis' debut LP, which didn't create massive records sales and chart-topping singles as his labelmate and peers' albums had. The same was the case of his second LP, "The Understanding", and third, "M.A.D.E", though the latter spawned his largest amount of sales yet (900,000).

Get Low label and rivalries

In the time between the releases of his second and third albums, Memphis Bleek started his own label, Get Low, which in turn led to the signing of former Junior MAFIA member Lil' Cease. The name of the label has sparked a hip-hop rivalry, or beef, between Memphis Bleek, JT tha Bigga Figga & The Game, the former of which built an independent record label with the same title.

Memphis Bleek was also caught in the middle of the epic Jay-Z and Nas battle, in which Bleek gained a few enemies, most notably Nas and Mobb Deep. Despite boosting Jay-Z and Nas's careers, the beef did little to help Bleek gain any more popularity than he had already attained.

Later years

Remaining one hit away, on May 17, 2005, Bleek released his fourth album titled "534" , in reference to the building he & mentor Jay-Z grew up in, located in the Marcy housing projects of Brooklyn. However, like many of Bleeks previous releases the album suffered in sales, despite decent exposure of the Swizz Beatz produced single 'Like That'.

In fall 2005, Memphis Bleek told MTV that he was recording an album called "The Process", that he would describe as a make or break album, saying "I want to do an album that's through the roof, I want to do a classic album. I feel that if this album I'm not recording is a classic, I'm not even gonna put it out. I have to do it bigger than anybody has ever done it. I have to make a good record this time, not just talking-junk records."The rapper has worked on the album since 2005 and during that time frame he would release the songs "Hustla", "Get Ya Money Off" and "Let It Off". During this time, he would also leave Roc-A-Fella after Jay-Z told him he could run his own company and had the proper distribution deals to do so. He found a new home in 2009 when he signed to Mass Appeal Entertainment which is where he will release his long anticipated album The Process is yet.

Albums
1999: The Coming of Age [Certified: Gold]
2001: The Understanding [Certified: Gold]
2003: M.A.D.E. [Certified: Gold]
2005: 534 [Certified: Gold]

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