Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can they me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin tenement Unlimited killings, menaces for death Better as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell Though I owe to it my With survival of the fittest, everyday is a I think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, to feel foreign Like, the darker you are the your problems 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, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Call a truce, world peace, stop like savages No war, we should time and think The bombs and tanks mankind extinct But the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must the killin Tell me why we die, we all children
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in All hate can't last forever (uh, c'mon) It's that we stand together (yeah, for the world) wants to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), (peace), world
Yo, there's brothers on the block, posted up like own it That's corner, from New York to California Got blocks locked Like, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see is my town" So the youngsters, in ghettos, goes to prison At an early age, already know against him So in order for him to survive, one day he Open up his to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this land of at what this country's got There be nobody homeless How can the president fix other problems when he ain't fixed yet The wasn't made for one man to rule alone To all increases, to home it belongs I want land, mansions, banks and The diamonds in Africa, oil in my The world's resources, all its residuals But comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels And I become the most But is it worth hearin a million problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, at my life with loaded barrels So over Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the time No other to what Nas write down you my dreams, show you my pain is yours You could get what you love, be a chain in You right now so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's man think of manifest to the real The plan is to wake up 'cause reveals All this can't forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right here and passed You transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again Hopin I reach the world and win Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, critical We used to fear arms, now the are chemical In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, then the are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's off his shoulders no contest I know the Most hear me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my theory is - knowledge is power To every projects and every corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, ain't forget shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas ain't nothin man, The men, women and children by the police and shit Niggas ain't gon' that, you know what I mean? Yo, what this war just show me is like, you want out of life Whatever you is rightfully yours, go out and take it Even if that means and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's this country's about This is what my is, and my country's a muthafucka