After bein' 25, you know, just to survive in the world 'Bout to have a little boy or baby girl, who Anyway, just when you start that little age And to you You start thinkin' about stuff, to make the right moves So bust it out, is what I was thinkin', check it
Yo, the education of the Lon-chicka-Lonnie Began, with time Bein' my is one with the divine In time brotha, you will the light Some say that God is and the devil's white Well, the is wrong and God is what's right
I fight with in the ring of doubt and fear The rain ain't gone but I can see clear As a child, given with no answer to why Just told believe in 'cuz for me he did die
Curiosity killed the and wisdom became the rhythm that I played to And became a slave to master A man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health
My mind had with the books of Zen, Tao the lessons Koran and the Bible, to me all vital And got truth within 'em, gotta read them You just can't skim 'em, branches of belief
But one root that 'em But of the venom try to trim 'em And use religion as an When it should be a natural way of Who am I or they to say to whom you ain't right
who got you doin' right and got you this far Whether you say, "In name", or, "Al hum du'Allah" Long as you know a bein' that's supreme to you You let that show others in the things you do
'Cuz when the trumpets blowin', 24 surround the throne 144,000 gon get home Only 144,000 gon get Only 144,000 gon get it,
I've and I've learned I taken and I've earned I have laughed, I've I have failed and I have Sunshine, pouring Found joy through all my I just wanna be happy with me
Let me voice my So many of my fellow brothers have given a title That their didn't earn Our ignorance is in the same breath as our Subconsciously, seeking to An impressionable to convince
finally come to the realization Why black in the worse place 'Cuz it's hard to correct yourself when you know Who you are in the first , so I try to find the clue in you But evidently, white know more black history than we do
we bein' lied to? I ain't know our was purposely hidden Damn, somethin' in me wanna who I am So I began my search, my journey started in It gave my heartache relief when I started to understand Hustlin' was like a gift spent my share of time in the
Taught me survival from this evil I'm just gonna have to with And I felt like a fool when I tried to learn it in It almost seemed like a rehearsal the only Science and are universal
Takin' advice, read the Bible, the Koran Searched scrolls from the Hebrew on, this ain't right, Jesus wasn't white Some leads were granted insight
And it's all in the plan, but it took me some to overstand He created with the imperfection of man So, with followin' I By no means have I forgotten or been done to me but I do know the devil ain't no white man, the a spiritual mind
That's color blind, there's evil white folk and niggas You gon find there's no positivity without negativity But one you gonna have to choose Any chance to I refuse to misuse
So how can you call God you let a worldly possession Become an obsession and the way you write rhymes And can't follow lesson
If a seed's sown, you make it's known You sure it's grown If you God, then save your own, don't enslave your own If you God, then save own, don't mentally enslave your own If you God, then save your own, don't mentally enslave own
Well, I've lived and learned I've and I've earned I laughed, I have cried I failed and I tried Sunshine, pourin' I joy through my pain Just wanna be happy, me, bein' me