Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin tenement Unlimited killings, menaces for death Better known as the projects where and rock heads dwell Though I owe to it my With of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted racism, started to feel foreign Like, the you are the realer your problems I reached for the stars but I just slippin On this life mission, never know what's Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Had a of the globe, every continent Yo, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages No war, we should take time and The bombs and tanks mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms lives in the Towers 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 can't last forever (uh, c'mon) It's time we stand 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 brothers on the block, posted up like own it they corner, from New York to California Got blocks locked Like, "dog you safe you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, in ghettos, goes to prison At an early age, already know against him So in for him to survive, one day he must Open up his eyes to the set backs and 'Cause, everybody a shot, in this land of opportunity at what this country's got There be nobody homeless 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 home it I land, mansions, banks and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The world's resources, all its residuals But then comes foes, I to gaurd it with missels And I the most wanted But is it worth hearin a million people problems and by Secret Service I guess, at my life with loaded barrels So move over Colin Powell or just 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, show you my pain is You could get what you love, be a chain in You right now There's so many that's dead or up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man of manifest to the real The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All this can't forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right and never passed You just transcend, I I'm gon' see you again Hopin I reach the 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 are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, the blessings are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's off his shoulders no contest I know the Most High me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my theory is - knowledge is power To every projects and street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm ain't forget nothin man, The men, women and killed by the police and shit Niggas gon' forget that, you know what I mean? Yo, this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and it Even if that means and death You know, that's I was raised up on, that's what this country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka