Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can they me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I from the housin tenement buildings Unlimited killings, menaces for death known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell Though I owe to it my survival of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be with racism, started 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 what's kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a piece of the globe, continent Yo, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Call a truce, world peace, stop actin like No war, we take time and think The bombs and tanks makes extinct But the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? it go on, we must stop the killin Tell me why we die, we all God's
- Amerie, Nas in background] All this hate last forever (uh, c'mon) It's that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), (peace), world (peace), world
Yo, there's on the block, posted up like they own it That's they corner, from New York to Got locked down Like, "dog you safe you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, to prison At an early age, already know 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 this got There shouldn't be nobody How can the president fix other problems he ain't fixed home yet The earth made for one man to rule alone To all colors increases, to it belongs I want land, mansions, banks and The in Africa, oil in my control The natural resources, all its residuals But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it missels And I become the most But is it worth hearin a million people problems and 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 Tell you my dreams, you my pain is yours 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 It's whatever man think of to the real The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All hate can't forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you here and never passed You transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again Hopin I reach the leaders and win Ain't without struggle, listen up, it's critical We used to fear arms, now the weapons are 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 head off his shoulders no I know the 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, 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' forget that, you know what I Yo, what war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and it if that means blood and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, what this country's about This is my country is, and my country's a muthafucka