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Lyrics: “Dirt Off Your Shoulders”• Chorus: If you feelin like a pimp

nigga, go and brush your shoulders off Ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off Niggaz is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told youGet, that, dirt off your shoulder

• Verse: I probably owe it to y'all, proud to be locked by the forceTryin to hustle some things, that go with the PorscheFeelin no remorse, feelin like my hand was forcedMiddle finger to the law, nigga grip'n my ballsAll the ladies they love me, from the bleachers they screaminAll the ballers is bouncin they like the way I be leanin

• Verse (cont): All the rappers be hatin, off the track that I'm makinBut all the hustlers they love it just to see one of us make it Came from the bottom the bottom, to the top of the potsNigga London, Japan and I'm straight off the block Like a running back, get it man, I'm straight off the block I can run it back nigga cause I'm straight with the Roc

• Chorus repeats• Bridge: You gotta get (get),

that(that), dirt off your shoulderYou gotta get (get), that(that), dirt off your shoulderYou gotta get (get), that(that), dirt off your shoulderYou gotta get (get), that(that), dirt off your shoulder

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Lyrics: “Yeah”• Watch out!

My outfit's ridiculous, In the club lookin' so conspicuous. And Rowl! These women all on the prowl, if you hold the head steady I'm a milk the cow. Forget about the game I'm a spit the truth, I won't stop till I get em in they birthday suits. So gimmie the rhythm and it'll be off with they clothes, then bend over to the front and touch your toes. I left the jag and I took the roles, if they aint cutting then I put em on foot patrol. How you like me now, when my pinky's valued over three hundred thousand, Lets drank you the one to please, Ludacris fill cups like double d's. Me and Ush once more and we leave em dead, we want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed to say “Yeah…”

Questions• Is it okay to use the “N” word to describe

black people when they use it to describe themselves? – What are the implications of using such a word?

(i.e. the “N” word; cracker; spic; chink; etc.)

• Is it bad for women to be considered provocative or forward? – (Yeah: “…women on the prowl…”) Why or why

not?