Uhh, regulate nigga, live for this Some of y'all live at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night closed down on the earth like gray rings Light of cities in the nights, for kings With big dreams, like Castro, Bautista From Cuba, and pointed nukes the U.S.
About to us for revolution, that's how you gotta move A lot of rules, some locked in the day of they birth 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 children come in all colors, change leaves But hold before you, one of those, prophetic
With blunted flows, seven souls in me channelin', from past to present time Heaven shines light on those to how the world grows men become murderers and some girls become hoes
And you accounted for, that you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never prisoners rise, rise, rise
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Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in buildings Rats crawl in hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, there's hope it's answered, dreams turned real
What's a nation? One with blind men Not charge of the situation arguments and real conversation's needed The world'll need it, to it
Evil to weaken my spirit, it's chronic herb This hurt from the honest word I now try hardest to my maker I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I could it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships made it Through currents and winds that left the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, jigs the planet
Not to get too But who decides when and if life 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 every second low-priced, if I so The truth is time waits for of you In fact, he can't for the date to snatch The ground right under you
Small of better life, if cheddar was right Lurk in the mind of young ahead of they time Trapped in the slums, beggin' for nuttin' but Headed for nuttin' but the pen, where they cousins be waitin'
Judges is not to pleas Guns bustin' where the kids Ricochet off lamp poles and damp holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, we from Hope the future the rate of those buried young Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin' past And a newborn's, time to be here at last
And have to grow up fast, and suffer our pain Hustlin' harder than the generations here he came Goin' the same bullshit as our fathers history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is For most of us, the game is much But never lose Through the years just get
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