Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can they me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin buildings killings, menaces marked for death Better as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell I owe to it my success With of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I would think I'm a of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, started to foreign Like, the darker you are the realer your I reached for the stars but I kept slippin On this life mission, never know next Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Had a piece of the globe, every Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Pakistan, America, Yo, Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages No war, we should time and think The and tanks makes mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must stop the Tell me why we die, we all children
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in All hate can't last forever (uh, c'mon) It's time that we together (yeah, for the world) Everybody wants to rule the (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), (peace), world
Yo, there's on the block, posted up like they own it they corner, from New York to California Got locked down Like, "dog you safe you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, in ghettos, goes to prison At an early age, know it's against him So in for him to survive, one day he must up his eyes to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this of opportunity Look at what country's got There shouldn't be homeless How can the president fix other problems when he ain't home yet The wasn't made for one man to rule alone To all colors increases, to home it I want land, mansions, and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The natural resources, all its residuals But then comes foes, I have to it with missels And I the most wanted But is it worth hearin a million people problems and by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life with barrels So move Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know my style, to hit you at the right time No compares to what Nas write down Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is You could get you love, be a chain in cause You alive now There's so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot now whatever man think of manifest to the real The plan is to up 'cause time reveals All this hate forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right here and never You just transcend, I know I'm see you again Hopin I the world leaders and win Ain't nothin without struggle, up, it's critical We used to fear arms, now the weapons are In Hip-Hop, the weapons are To be the best you challenge the best, then the blessings are Top of the for the kid and unless Poppin any rapper's head off his shoulders no I the Most High hear me, so fly you can't near me You of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power To every projects and street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas ain't shit, know what I'm sayin? ain't forget nothin man, The men, women and children killed by the police and Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know I mean? Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you out of life Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and it Even if that blood and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka