Uhh, regulate nigga, live for this Some of y'all live at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night down on the earth like gray dark rings Light of cities in the nights, for kings With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, that's how you gotta A lot of rules, some locked in Curse the day of they confused Who's to be praised, the mighty dollar or almighty
I'm like the farmer, plantin' words, are seeds My truth is the soil, help you grow trees May the come in all colors, change like leaves But hold before you, one of those, MC's
With flows, seven hundred souls in me Each channelin', from to present time shines light on those innocent to how the world grows Some men become and some girls become hoes
And you accounted for, everything you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the of your words My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga dies Ghetto prisoners rise, rise,
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Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall Rats crawl in filthy hallways, Sinners who faithless, still there's Pray it's answered, dreams real
What's a wicked One with blind men Not takin' of the situation Empty arguments and real conversation's The world'll it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, it's chronic This hurt come from the honest I now try to serve my maker What I learned, it's way on the paper
So I could it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships made it strong currents and winds that left the others stranded To in the Atlantic, satan jigs the planet
Not to get too But who when and if your life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name, O May we break away from the abroad
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You wanna buy time? I'm the seller of I give you every low-priced, if I so lies The truth is waits for none of you In fact, he can't for the date to snatch The ground from under you
Small visions of better life, if cheddar was in the mind of young ones ahead of they time Trapped in the slums, for nuttin' but takin' Headed for but the state pen, where they cousins be waitin'
is not relatin' to pleas Guns bustin' where the play off lamp poles and leave damp holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, we from Hope the future reduce the of those buried young is every man's kingdom, a dyin' man's past And a newborn's, time to be here at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and our pain Hustlin' harder than the generations before he came Goin' through the same as our fathers Readin' history, but who's the
For some the game is For most of us, the is much harder But never lose Through the years get smarter
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