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All Things

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Mar. 24, 19981 viewer7.7K views

All Things Lyrics

[Opio]
They got plans, plots and schemes
Like a dope fiend tryin to get that ice cream cola
[Pep Love]
My nigga hold up, things is not as they seem
You'll get washed; even if you're way too clean

[Hook]
All things, ain't, what they seem
You'll get washed; even if you're way too clean
All things, ain't, what they seem
You'll get washed; even if you're way too clean

[Pep Love]
I'm bent like a Slinky, where the hoes at?
Just got paid, pockets on fat
Friday night, everything is right
Til Opio hung a left then I seen his lights (siren)
But we "B-Legit" like "The Savage"
We da shit, got L's and a pocket full of cabbage
One time did a search and found we had scratch
Itched it and took us downtown
Matched ..


[Opio]
.. descriptions of two individuals who just did a bank heist
Small timin shanked the guard twice in his neck
A Purple Heart Vietnam vet
They test me and eye-witness fingered out Pep
So the next logical step was: I drove the getaway
Accessory to murder, court date set for May

Put my ass in North County on set for Pelican Bay
And since I'm not Orenthal J., I can't pay
Shapiro the dinero to get away clean

A nigga got twenty years though, know what I mean?
[Pep Love]
They got plans, plots and schemes
Like a dope fiend tryin to get that ice cream cola
[Opio]
My nigga hold up, things is not as they seem
You get washed; even if you're way too clean

[Hook]
All things, ain't, what they seem
You'll get washed; even if you're way too clean
All things, ain't, what they seem
You'll get washed; even if you're way too clean

[Outro]
"Does anybody know what the situation is?
Do you know what we can do and what we can't do?
What we can say and what we can't say?
I don't know that anymore
And I don't have enough time to go and research all the laws
So I'm in the position
That the only thing I can say about that is FUCKIT."

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A song detailing a story of racial profiling. It also alludes to their being a bigger scheme around the prison industry and elitism within America.

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Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco)
Release Date
March 24, 1998
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