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To all my people, just lift your Seem like it ain't no peace, no How you it, the bullet or the microchip? way you got to lift your fist
We get it down this To all my people, up your first like it ain't no peace, no justice How you want it, the bullet or the Either way you got to lift fist
Yo, We life close to the edge, don't push But this ain't eighty-three and it's not the cold It's on the street strapped, huffin' that kush They eyein' the next cat, livin' all
I guess make a brother do what he must What's the combination that can make a human leaders gettin' mutinied up, who couldn't read The signs, thinkin' the day and is [Incomprehensible]
Indeed, we blast, to kiss ass Quick fast, to mash cause of a bugged out past Swallow the pain, follow the mental It a hell of a man, nowadays to maintain
Garments bloodstained, bruised and battered Our eyes reflect the agony, of that were shattered And they love it, when we out and kill our own But the greater responsibility, yes, is our own
To all my people, just lift fist Seem like it no peace, no justice How you want it, the bullet or the Either way you got to lift your
We get it down this To all my people, up your first Seem like it no peace, no justice How you it, the bullet or the microchip? way you got to lift your fist
Uhh, worldwide famine, people demand That somebody do somethin' soon, and examine The facts, the violent attacks the daily gun play the cocaine and the crack
Thug season what's the reason for the Everybody's gotta eat, some gotta resort to Take money, money, money, money, money
To all my people, just lift fist Seem like it ain't no peace, no How you want it, the bullet or the Either way you got to lift your
We get it down this To all my people, up your first like it ain't no peace, no justice How you want it, the bullet or the way you got to lift your fist
Yo, the time they eyes open 'til the clock strike death Brothers is stressed, walkin' 'round holdin' they They got the government surveyin' they and can't breathe dynamitin' them projects to smithereens
Money comin' but them too few and far between You tryin' to taste just what the world's offering, I seen to make a grown man scream Brothers thirsty and hungry to get that
Too tears of pain, too many years of struggle Too many drops of blood, too many to juggle Too few jobs available, too few schools Too few models, just gangsters and pimps
Will you succumb, will your heart grow Or will you the world, and use your mind like a gun? I'm the one I a stick-up kid to a soldier Me and The Roots, word up, we takin'
To all my people, just lift your like it ain't no peace, no justice How you want it, the or the microchip? Either way you got to your fist
We get it down like To all my people, ball up your Word up it ain't no peace, no How you want it, the or the microchip?
To all my people, just lift fist How you it there's no peace, no justice the bullet or even form the microchip? Either way you got to your fist
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