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The Last Ones

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[Verse] The last of a dying breed The DNA of slaves that's been freed All the odds and the hate I had to beat All the pain and the rage I had to eat Who knew that it would save us? Who knew it would create us? I'm from a place where we shunned, we was disgraced We was hung, we was erased, we was none, we wasn't placed We was done, we was replaced We was stunned, we was amazed when they brung us to the States Where they brought us for the sake of our culture, all for the grapes And all the shit that we brung, so the culture's all in our grapes But that's when I learned that That's when I learned that my culture All in my blood, in my veins, so when I'm hurt, I get stronger When I work, I get longer When I'm pressed, I get better When I'm stressed, I get clever When I'm wet, I get wetter But when I'm free, I get fed up And when I'm focused, I'm fed up And when I said it, I said it That's when they know that I'm ready And when I'm ready, I'm deadly And when I'm deadly, I'm special So don't you ever forget it That the pressure was pressure And that the treasure was treasure But we done made it to Heaven And now the last of us never