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{\an8}I'm back,
back to what my mother
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{\an8}and everyone else said
was my destiny.
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{\an8}No matter how many fights
I won or millions I earned,
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{\an8}right back where I started, man.
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{\an8}Maybe this is who I am.
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{\an8}Racing pigeons
can fly 1,000 miles,
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{\an8}but they always come right back
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{\an8}to the dirty boxes
they call home.
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{\an8}Six years might as well be life.
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{\an8}I'm 25, in my prime.
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{\an8}Snatching the title back
from Buster would've been cake.
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{\an8}But when I get out,
I'll be 30-fucking-1.
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{\an8}Not a lot of 31-year-old
champions of the world
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{\an8}out there...
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{\an8}especially after six years
no training, bad food.
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{\an8}Bend and spread.
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{\an8}Prison steals
everything it can from you.
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Every hope I have
is all fucked up now.
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Who will I be when
I get out of here?
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Welcome home, Champ.
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And by then,
will anyone even care?
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Hey, Mike.
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I'm Ray Ray.
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I feel a little bad about
how Ray Ray and I got started.
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It was fucking prison, man.
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I needed to claim that shit.
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I wasn't about to be
anyone's bitch.
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Can you imagine livin'
with me in a 8-by-9-foot cell?
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Ray Ray turned out to be
more patient than Job, man.
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Ray Ray tried to keep me
out of trouble--
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as if anyone had ever
succeeded at that.
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Now is the time for you
to figure out
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what you're gonna do
when you get out this place.
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But you got time
to figure that shit out.
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Keep fuckin' around, though,
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the system will steal
your future from you.
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Take it from one who knows.
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I ain't got no future.
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You want to make this
worth something?
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Read books, real ones,
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starting with The Constitution.
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Fuck you.
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Those first months,
I had to prove I wasn't a punk,
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because everyone was
looking to make their name
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by taking a shot at me.
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Or so I thought.
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You eat that shit.
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Probably pissed in it,
creepy fuck.
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Damn!
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Tyson, you tree jumper fuck!
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"Tree jumper"?
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Never heard that one before.
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Sir, tree jumper.
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What do you think it mean?
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Uh, probably
some kind of racial...
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"You're a monkey,
climbing trees."
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You know, I should kick
your ass for saying that.
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- You're wrong.
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Turns out it's a nickname
for a rapist
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hiding behind a tree,
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waiting for women to walk by
so he can pounce on them.
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I ain't fuckin'
do nothin' like that.
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So I let him know
he'd been misinformed.
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They put me
in solitary for that one.
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Alone in a small dark pit
23 hours a day
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with nothing but my thoughts.
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And my thoughts weren't
that healthy to begin with.
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-♪ Somebody, everybody ♪
-♪ Everything busted ♪
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It's designed to murder hope.
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It works.
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Psst, Mike!
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Big fan.
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I brought you your mail, homey.
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Keep the faith.
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We are showin' up strong.
I put the article in here.
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Your people love you, Mike.
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People were talking.
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We will not let Desiree
get away with using us
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to destroy one of the greatest
men we've ever known!
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- I had my supporters,
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including this guy.
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We're gonna argue
that Desiree perjured herself.
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She denied retaining an attorney
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to go after you
in that civil court
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before the criminal case
even started,
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meaning she is all
about the money, honey!
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Alan Dershowitz,
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Harvard professor--
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best lawyer in the world.
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More like all talk, big bill.
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- An albino Don King.
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I lost my appeal,
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and the Indiana Supreme Court
refused to review it.
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That's the day I lost faith
in the system.
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Time got real.
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Ah, fuck.
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You got to stop
fucking with the guards.
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From my sister.
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They can't break Iron Mike.
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Can I borrow that?
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- The Constitution?
- Yeah.
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Better yet.
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Keep it.
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It was hard for me to believe
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people telling me
I had a bright future--
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Barkim, Cus, now Ray Ray.
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I came from shit.
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As far as I knew, I was shit.
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Now, I know some of y'all think
I deserved to be locked up.
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- Agree to disagree.
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Point is, I became just
another nigga with a number.
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And in the '90s, niggas
with numbers was big business.
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You got to understand,
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in the '90s,
there was a war on "drugs."
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GEORGE H.W. BUSH:
This...
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this is crack cocaine,
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seized a few days ago
by drug enforcement agents
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in a park just across the street
from the White House.
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Ray Ray's bag
was half that size.
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They took half his life.
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It was 100-to-1 disparity
between the amount of cocaine
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that triggered a mandatory
minimum sentence versus crack.
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You want to know why there's
so many brothers in here?
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In an Indiana cornfield?
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'Cause white boys selling coke
got suspended sentences,
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while brothers selling crack
got 20 years.
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GEORGE H.W. BUSH:
We need more prisons,
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more jails, more courts,
more prosecutors.
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Even with all those new prisons,
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we were packed tight
and wound tighter.
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These people don't need prisons.
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They need psychiatrists,
myself included.
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It's not about correction.
It's about punishment.
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Treat people like animals...
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Who the fuck
do you think you are?
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They're gonna fuckin' roar.
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Ah, what can I say?
I'm a stubborn fuck.
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Let's go.
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But so was Ray Ray.
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And eventually he got me
reading all kinds of shit.
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Better than comic books,
young blood?
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Not better but interesting.
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He never let the pigs
get him down.
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Even in prison.
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He saw the system
for how it really works.
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Don King used to say
he didn't serve his prison time,
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his prison time served him.
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I never knew what he
was talking about.
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Now you do.
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Inmate number 856951,
time to go.
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What's this about?
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Oh, you're being
transferred to Supermax,
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- effective immediately.
- What?
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This don't make no sense!
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- Hey, let him go!
- Ah, ah, ah, ah!
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Give me an excuse.
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My people ain't
gonna know where I am!
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Mike, call my sister!
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317-555-0153!
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Mike, call my sister!
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317-555-0153!
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I never saw Ray Ray again,
and I was looking for revenge.
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Mike Tyson.
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And thanks
to the stupid fucking guards,
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- I found it.
- Lloyd Franklin.
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Shut the fuck up
and don't touch my shit.
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I know Ray Ray
taught you better.
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When I got
transferred here in '88,
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Ray Ray showed me the terrain.
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Like your fan mail, for example.
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Solid gold, brother.
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"As per your request,
I have deposited $50
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"in your commissary account.
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God Bless you, Champion."
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That's, like, $1,000 already.
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Uh-uh, move that
decimal point, playboy.
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More like 10,000, and rising.
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This young lady sent photos.
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Vicky?
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Even the uglies get 40 in trade.
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But like any solid franchise,
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it expanded quickly.
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This joint
was ripe for a takeover.
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It was like Let's Make a Deal,
prison edition,
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and I was Monty fucking Hall.
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Okay, sweetie,
I'm gonna put you on the phone
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with my good buddy...
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- Cephus.
- Cephus.
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I want you
to show him a good time, okay?
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Hi.
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Man, fuck the outside world.
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In here, I don't have to train
every morning at 5:00.
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I don't need to be
beating up motherfuckers
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for your entertainment.
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In here, I'm an entrepreneur.
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Safe, pressure's off.
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-♪ This is how we do it ♪
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I had everyone
on the inside working for me.
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Shit, I even had this dumb
motherfucker bring me doughnuts.
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So I was the king of the prison.
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And I liked it that way.
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What I wanted was to just stay
in prison and hide.
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Outside felt like prison.
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And, you know, I'm just being
real with you guys right now.
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I just kept pushing the envelope
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with the kind of shit
I was getting into.
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But instead of tacking
more time on my sentence,
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they just kept shaving it off
for my "good behavior."
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Hey, you sure about this?
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They'll throw the book at you
for sure if you get caught.
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Don't worry about it.
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A'ight.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
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It was the perfect cover.
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I stayed
out of their Islam shit,
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and they stayed out of my shit.
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We started spending
a lot of time there.
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These guys were always busy
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praying to their higher power.
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I had my own higher power.
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They never said
a fucking word to me,
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until one day...
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Hey, Champ.
Champ, check this out.
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$900 value, all right?
You can get faxes on this shit.
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One-hour battery life.
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You even got a stylus,
and you can write
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in your calendar,
you know what I'm saying?
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I'm in jail, nigga.
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What kind of appointments
I'm makin'?
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- You right, Champ, you right.
- Yeah.
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So, I mean,
if you don't want it--
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Just take this shit out of here.
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Okay, all right.
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The new toy of yours won't work.
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Bullshit, it's a phone.
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Ain't nothing but a brick
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unless it talk to the upstairs.
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Satellite.
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We don't get
that kind of signal out here.
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You use this space
to transact your business.
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But you always stay
for the prayers.
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You can join us in prayer,
if you like.
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The only thing I ask...
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is that you remove your shoes.
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At first,
the appeal of Islam was,
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they're just
the baddest of the bad.
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First time I saw it was
Don's chauffeur, Captain Joe.
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Larry Holmes
a multimillionaire.
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Mike Tyson sleeps
on a bed of money!
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I make you HBO motherfuckers
a fortune.
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You love my Black ass!
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So don't waste
my motherfucking time!
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I need something to eat.
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This bean pie's
pretty delicious.
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Mm.
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Man, Captain Joe was no joke.
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This dude taught Malcolm X,
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and he was
Elijah Muhammad's ace.
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Now, I'm sitting here trying
to make motherfuckers money.
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I tell you
I need something to eat,
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and the best thing
you can come up with
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is a motherfucking bean pie?
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God damn it!
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I need some real food!
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Pick it up, fry it up.
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Come on.
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You know I don't touch pork.
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Then motherfucker, you fired.
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What'd you do that for, Don?
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Mike, sometimes you got to show
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these motherfuckers
who's in charge.
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I said I'll call you tomorrow.
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And don't worry about HBO.
They'll come around.
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They always do.
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Who the fuck are these niggas?
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Brother King.
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I'm here to respectfully convey
Captain Joe is never terminated.
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If anyone is to be terminated,
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it will be you.
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Yeah, Don didn't fuck
with Captain Joe after that.
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These guys
were bad motherfuckers,
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but they also had some really
interesting stuff to say.
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- You--
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It's chicken.
It's not pork.
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I should probably jog more.
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There's no boxing in here--
Indiana prison rules.
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That's all external.
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How exactly do you intend
to address your flabby spirit?
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You got
less than a year in here,
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if you manage
to stay out of trouble.
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But the true freedom...
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the true freedom...
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comes from elevating
above base pursuits.
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Are you ready to do that?
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The fucking guy
knew his shit.
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I got to say, I liked him.
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Nobody had talked to me
like that since Cus.
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I started getting in shape
spiritually, then physically.
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You know, Don only cared
about the second part.
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- I had maybe six months left,
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and he was hyping the world
for my triumphant return.
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Every million dollars
added to my purse
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was another million pounds
of pressure,
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scaring me shitless about
whether I could still bring it,
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for all of you--
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I mean, if you even
still wanted to see me.
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Ah, man,
I was freaking the fuck out.
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So I asked for help.
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Dr. Angelou, I didn't--
I didn't think you'd show.
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You asked.
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And if I'm being honest...
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I'm not exactly sure
what I can say to you.
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But if a word from me can help,
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then certainly
I can find that word.
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Still? Even with all
they're saying about me?
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I approach people
as they are now,
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without judgment
for what they have been,
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even Mike Tyson.
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That we all have
the possibility of becoming.
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"You may write me
down in history
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"with your bitter, twisted lies.
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"You may trod me in the dirt,
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but still, like dust,
I'll rise."
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I love when someone
quotes me to me.
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I wish I was as knowledgeable
about prizefighting.
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Well, the thing is,
I've been really trying.
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Been training again
and, even better, reading.
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Just trying to be
a better man, you know?
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For you or for them?
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00:17:27,382 --> 00:17:32,929
Where does that leave you when
you're not their champ anymore?
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No touching.
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You can be more than that.
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Excuse me, Officer.
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Would you be so kind
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as to take a picture
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of me and Mr. Tyson?
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It's beautiful, brother.
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Maya be reppin' the culture
for real.
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50.
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00:18:19,684 --> 00:18:21,477
Say what?
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For the photo.
50 bucks.
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00:18:23,813 --> 00:18:25,565
Yeah, I sold the picture...
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And doughnuts.
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00:18:26,983 --> 00:18:30,153
You know how hard it is to get
fucking doughnuts in prison?
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- Yeah.
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But those words,
they stayed with me.
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The thing is,
no fighter in history
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ever got back on top
after three years away.
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00:18:50,465 --> 00:18:52,633
No one ever came
out of prison in one piece,
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00:18:52,717 --> 00:18:56,471
mentally, spiritually,
anything else.
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What made everyone think
I would be the one?
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The world is waiting
for your return tomorrow.
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Not mine, Mike Tyson's.
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00:19:06,147 --> 00:19:09,025
Don says
he's worth $100 million.
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00:19:09,025 --> 00:19:11,319
What's Mike Tyson worth?
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00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:13,571
Mike Tyson ain't worth shit.
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00:19:13,571 --> 00:19:15,990
Mike Tyson feels safer in here.
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00:19:16,074 --> 00:19:17,700
And why do you think that is?
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I know what you're trying to do.
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You're trying to say
this is Allah's way
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of telling me
to leave the game behind.
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Devote my life to what?
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Look, I walk out
these doors tomorrow.
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I don't need
no more riddles or stories,
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00:19:30,922 --> 00:19:31,964
none of that bullshit.
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00:19:32,048 --> 00:19:33,925
Just tell me what
the fuck I need to do.
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Mike Tyson...
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You serve no one but Allah.
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00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,454
And with that knowledge,
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you can choose
whatever path you want.
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00:20:10,169 --> 00:20:13,756
Man, I was terrified
to walk out those doors.
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00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,217
My life was so out of control
out there.
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In prison, I made the rules,
and I ran things.
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In prayer,
I was finally able to make
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all those outside voices
shut the fuck up.
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Peace and mercy of Allah
be on you.
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All right, Mike...
time to go.
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What if I couldn't fight
no more?
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I was just so scared
you guys were gonna hate me.
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But I was just as scared
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of going back
to the old fucked-up Mike,
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the guy who had everyone,
including me,
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convinced I was gonna
end up in an early grave.
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Those were my choices.
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I could go back
to being Cus's monster...
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Don's meal ticket...
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00:21:17,445 --> 00:21:21,115
or I could be
the elevated man Ray Ray,
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Imam Siddiq,
and Maya saw inside of me...
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That I wanted to be.
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And I had to decide now.
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