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Common

1'2 Many...

Release date: 30th September 1997

From One Day It’ll All Make Sense
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"1'2 Many..." is a track by Common, from the album One Day It’ll All Make Sense, released 30th September 1997. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Common

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Lyrics

1'2 Many...

One wa-wa One, One Two, One Two

One wa-wa One, One Two, One Two

One tigga One, One Two, One Two

[Dug Infinite]

Dug Inf on production, my man Com for the discussion

Check it

[Common]

One day, I was tryin' to be myself

The same day this thug say, "You gotta come hard!"

Nigga, times is hard, I'm tryin' hard to make it

It ain't hard to tell, it's hard for me to fake it

Plus, it's hard to be me, it's hard to stop drinkin'

I guess it's hard for you hard niggas to start thinkin'

Pussy MC's stinkin' so I can't get hard

Some, become MC's cause it's hard to get a job

Hard for you to trust people, you don't trust in God

Even harder to be the Gods we created to be

This Western way of life ain't native to me

Put one nigga in your Pulp Fiction and relate it to me?

I hate it that we, the only race that call our women hoes

Niggas, be too hard to say "ho" at the shows

I rose like a florist to bring the flavor like a Taurus

Might not have the murderous verse, but I stay hard to the chorus

Took this girl to work, she say I ain't have a real job

Like that dick you had last night, baby, I work real hard

Simple motherfuckers tellin' me hard is criminal

Niggas you thought was hard, you pourin out your liquor for

Years ago, I thought I was hard, in high school fightin'

Now, I'm the hardest man working in show business

Handle your business or shut the fuck up

[Chorus: Dug infinite and Common]

It's just one too many niggas got cars and no land

One too many niggas with cash and no plan

One too many niggas that's tryin to MC

That's one too many niggas comin up to me

That's one too many niggas

Just one too many niggas

That's one too many niggas

That's one too many niggas

Just one too many niggas

"One, two"

Forever, I ain't gon' be rappin

Shit that happened to me, I gotta let niggas know

This mark asked me do I know his cousin Jimbo

Nigga, I don't even know myself

You want me to get you in

Jack, I'm trying to get through the do' myself

Opportunity knocked, but he ain't call 'fore he came

Yeah, I got a name, but only twenty dollars to it

Next album you gon' blow, up my ass, you done blew it before

Being in my video, what's that gonna do for your life?

Get you some pussy? you should be gettin' rump off GP

Quit that you look like you say I seen you on TV

I be readin' niggas but readin' be makin' me sleepy (Hey!)

So strong am I, A Hundred Styles and Runnin

Niggas stuck on one and then I ran by

Claimin' they fly but they stand-by

I come truer than a dream, and you's a damn lie

With that anti-rap, complainin' about this and about that

Sounding bitch-like, that ain't gonna make a nigga get right

I'm number one

[Chorus: Dug infinite and Common]

One too many niggas tryin' to tell me bout they theory

One too many niggas that ain't tryin' to hear me

One too many niggas doin' shows that don't happen

One too many niggas life depend on rappin'

That's one too many niggas

Just one too many niggas

Just one too many niggas

That's one too many niggas

Just one too many niggas

"One, two"

One two many niggas can't find they niche

One two many niggas wanna be my bitch

Nigga, one too many niggas

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Track details

From One Day It’ll All Make Sense

1997
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One Day It’ll All Make Sense
One Day It’ll All Make Sense
Common
Release year
1997
  1. —Food for Funk
  2. —My City
  3. —Retrospect for Life
  4. —Invocation
  5. —Stolen Moments Pt. III
  6. —Introspective
  7. —Hungry
  8. —Stolen Moments Pt. II
  9. —Gettin' Down at the Amphitheater
  10. —Stolen Moments Pt. I
  11. —Pop's Rap Part 2 / Fatherhood
  12. —1'2 Many...
  13. —Real Nigga Quotes
  14. —Making a Name for Ourselves
  15. —All Night Long
  16. —G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Common, Dug Infinite
Producer
Dug Infinite
Additional Vocals
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Assistant Mixing Engineer
Steve Slavich
Mastering Engineer
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Mixing Engineer
Troy Hightower
Recording Engineer
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