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