Uhh, nigga Bravehearts nigga, for this of y'all don't live at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night closed down on the earth like dark rings Light of in the nights, destination for kings With big dreams, like Castro, Bautista From Cuba, and pointed nukes the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, how you gotta move A lot of rules, locked in solitude Curse the day of they confused Who's to be praised, the dollar or almighty Allah
I'm like the farmer, plantin' words, are seeds My truth is the soil, help you like trees May the children come in all colors, change like But hold you, one of those, prophetic MC's
With blunted flows, seven hundred in me Each channelin', from to present time Heaven shines light on those innocent to how the grows Some men become and some girls become hoes
And you for, everything that you heard Do not speak to fools, scorn the wisdom of your words My heart is wise, eyes, the saga never dies Ghetto rise, rise, rise
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Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in buildings Rats in filthy hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, there's hope Pray it's answered, turned real
What's a wicked nation? One blind men Not charge of the situation Empty arguments and conversation's needed The need it, to hear it
Evil to weaken my spirit, it's chronic herb This hurt come from the honest I now try hardest to my maker I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I dictate it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the that made it Through strong currents and winds that the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan the planet
Not to get too But who when and if your life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the of your name, O Lord May we away from the chains abroad
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You buy time? I'm the seller of minutes I you every second low-priced, if I so lies The truth is time waits for of you In fact, he wait for the date to snatch The ground right from you
Small visions of life, if cheddar was right Lurk in the mind of young ones ahead of time Trapped in the slums, for nuttin' but takin' Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where cousins be waitin'
Judges is not relatin' to Guns bustin' where the play Ricochet off lamp and leave damp holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
the way, where we from Hope the future reduce the rate of those young Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin' man's And a newborn's, first to be here at last
And shouldn't have to up fast, and suffer our pain harder than the generations here before he came Goin' the same bullshit as our fathers history, but who's the authors?
For some the is easy For most of us, the game is much But never faith Through the years get smarter
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