Uhh, nigga nigga, live for this Some of y'all don't 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, destination for big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Bautista From Cuba, and pointed 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 they birth to be praised, the mighty dollar or almighty Allah
I'm the farmer, plantin' words, people are seeds My truth is the soil, help you like trees May the children come in all colors, like leaves But hold you, one of those, prophetic MC's
blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me Each channelin', from past to present Heaven shines light on those innocent to how the world Some men become murderers and some girls hoes
And you accounted for, that you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of words My is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never dies Ghetto prisoners rise, rise,
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Yo, we be God's children, habitats in tall buildings Rats in filthy hallways, incinerators who faithless, still there's hope Pray answered, dreams turned real
a wicked nation? One with blind men Not takin' charge of the arguments and real conversation's needed The need it, to hear it
Evil tries to my spirit, it's chronic herb This hurt come from the honest I now try to serve my maker What I learned, find it's way on the
So I could it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the that made it Through strong 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 your is finished? If Christ is in this, for the of your name, O Lord May we break away the chains abroad
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You buy time? I'm the seller of minutes I give you second low-priced, if I so lies The truth is time for none of you In fact, he can't wait for the date to The ground right under you
visions of better life, if cheddar was right Lurk in the mind of young ones of they time Trapped in the slums, beggin' for but takin' for nuttin' but the state pen, where they cousins be waitin'
Judges is not to pleas 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 reduce the rate of those buried young Life is every kingdom, a dyin' man's 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 before he Goin' through the bullshit as our fathers history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is For most of us, the is much harder But lose faith the years just get smarter
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