Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come the housin tenement buildings killings, menaces marked for death Better known as the projects where and rock heads dwell I owe to it my success With survival of the fittest, is a chal' I would I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, started to foreign Like, the darker you are the your problems I reached for the stars but I just kept On this life mission, never what's next Ancient from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a of the globe, every continent Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Pakistan, America, Yo, Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics Call a truce, world peace, stop actin savages No war, we should take and think The and tanks makes mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's been men with fightin Lost lives in the and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must stop the me why we die, we all God's children
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in All this hate can't last (uh, c'mon) time that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody wants to the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), (peace), world (peace), world
Yo, there's brothers on the block, up like they own it That's they corner, from New to California Got blocks down Like, "dog you safe you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to At an early age, know it's against him So in order for him to survive, one day he Open up his to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody a shot, in this land of opportunity Look at this country's got There shouldn't be homeless How can the president fix other problems he ain't fixed home yet The earth wasn't made for one man to rule To all colors increases, to home it I want land, mansions, and gold The diamonds in Africa, oil in my The world's natural resources, all its But then foes, I have to gaurd it with missels And I become the most But is it worth a million people problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life loaded barrels So move Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all that's my style, to hit you at the right time No other to what Nas write down Tell you my dreams, you my pain is yours You could get what you love, be a in cause You alive now There's so many that's or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man think of manifest to the The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All this can't forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, like you right here and never passed You just transcend, I I'm gon' see you again Hopin I reach the world and win Ain't nothin struggle, listen up, it's critical We used to fear arms, now the are chemical In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, the blessings are spiritual Top of the for the kid and unless Poppin any head off his shoulders no contest I know the Most hear me, so fly you can't near me You of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power To projects and every 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 killed by the police and shit Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know I mean? Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of you feel is rightfully yours, go out and take it Even if that means blood and You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's this country's about This is my country is, and my country's a muthafucka